PCL ex-CP Terry M. retires early?

[PeanuckleCRJ]

I never had much interaction with him...he was always nice every time I talked with him. The stories of his past definitely made you wonder how the heck he got that job.

I do remember him telling me that we were going to be getting 70 seat airplanes by August 2006. Somebody was chugging the company kool-aid or just telling people what they wanted to hear, haha.

 

[Inconceivable]

The stories of his past definitely made you wonder how the heck he got that job.

LOA 99-07

That "team player" sued the company and the union over the Agency Shop provisions of the contract. It seems Terry was too good to pay dues or a contract administration fee since TN was a "right to work state" and he didn't feel HE should pay for the gains made on his behalf in the form of pay or work rules.

What a perfect snake for management to co-opt later--someone who bites the hand that feeds him! Him and his mail-order bride.

 

[PCL_128]

I do remember him telling me that we were going to be getting 70 seat airplanes by August 2006. Somebody was chugging the company kool-aid or just telling people what they wanted to hear, haha.

Terry was always the guy that the upper-management types would feed misinformation because they knew he would go out into the crew rooms during his pilot meetings and repeat all of it. It was in management's best interest to make the pilots think that 70-seaters were always on the verge of coming, because then the pilots could be manipulated into feeling scared about "rocking the boat" with the contract talks. In Terry, management had a gullible gossip that would go out and spread whatever kind of nonsense that they needed to spread. They still use a few of the senior checkairmen in this role, especially Bob H.

 

[WildBlue]

Mefford was a clown. I remember when he and an FO nearly came to blows down in the smoke hole around 2000. This was a couple of months before TM was named Chief Pilot. Amazing that the FO simply stood there and stared the prick down daring Mefford to take swing at him.

Shortly after that the FO was elected to be the MEC Chairman and another couple of weeks after that Mefford was made CP. I bet that made for some very interesting meetings.

 

[Inconceivable]

Now that he is gone will anything be done about Gary B. in MSP?

I mean, I am sorry that he was led to believe he would become an RJ CA, get his time and go to a major with only rotor time when he came aboard in 2001. I am sorry they laid him off right after he moved to MSP after 9/11 and kept Lisa Roddy on the job. I am sorry that his kid died of cancer. But this guy has really set a new low in personal vendettas and arrogance.

For the unaware, this "base manager" got mad at a line pilot over a personality conflict and he wrote the FAA Aeromedical Branch in OKC on company letterhead stating that he thought the pilot in question was unstable and recommended that his medical be pulled. Which it was for 6-7 months.

That is the kind of person you wish bowel cancer upon.

 

[Flyer1015]

Mefford was a clown.

Oh great. Now I have to make another clown avatar? I thought we all agreed that PT is the real clown?

 

[CrownandCoke]

Oh great. Now I have to make another clown avatar? I thought we all agreed that PT is the real clown?

PT is a clown. CS is a clown. GB is a clown. TM was a clown. MC is a clown. Scheduling is made up of clowns.

You have quite the list there good sir!

 

[bluefishbeagle]

GB is an idiot:

When the MSP rule no single engine taxi in the alley was implemented GB called two offending pilots into his office for a short carpet dance.

His first question to them was "alright which one of you was taxing?"

This is the guy who took the door off the pilots lounge because people were sleeping in there between legs due to PCL's many 4 to 5 hour productivity breaks.

It is because he's such an axxhole that the company keeps him, plus the fact that his stupidity is a real company asset. In fact he's so stupid he makes everyone else in management look like geniuses (a near impossible feat).

 

[Inconceivable]

I'm thinking of sending him a Christmas card--addressed from his dead kid asking why he s such an a$$hole.

 

[justmeinmsp]

OMG don't get me started on GB. He is the biggest tool I have ever had as a "supervisor". Didn't know jack about flight and duty rules, yet tried to disipline me. Yeah, he got me for the single engine taxi too. And my favorite, threatened me if I refused to fly a trip after I hurt my arm and requested it be checked out by a doctor. Mefford was an idiot too, yes I too flew with him twice and saw what a "leader" he was. The whole place can Fook itself, I have never been happier to leave a job in my life!

 

[WildBlue]

I'm thinking of sending him a Christmas card--addressed from his dead kid asking why he s such an a$$hole.

Oh, man, I don't like the guy, but Jeez....that is a bit over the top.

 

[WildBlue]

PT is a clown. CS is a clown. GB is a clown. TM was a clown. MC is a clown. Scheduling is made up of clowns.

You have quite the list there good sir!

I got everyone but "MC".

 

[Dumb Pilot]

I'm thinking of sending him a Christmas card--addressed from his dead kid asking why he s such an a$$hole.

Out of bounds I think! You might not like the guy but I was in the kids funeral and that pain was real, independently of how you might feel about GB. Remove the comment please

 

[Inconceivable]

Yeah, it was a little harsh. Can't seem to figure out how to remove it.

 

[bluefishbeagle]

Ahh just leave it. We know it was just frustration talking, plead temperary insanity. Oh yeah I forgot pilots can't do that. Oh well just plead a serious case of Jack.