Captain Dork
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- Jan 31, 2008
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Let me admit I am a survivor of the recent purge and that I'm surprized I'm still employed. Additionally, I don't know if productivity and sick calls played much of a roll in who got the axe. I further question the validity of the data gathering.
A theory:
Shock and Awe Program, get rid of lot of union board posters, and the senior union people; people with family health issues that keep them home unscheduled.
Boost Pilot Pay, kiss the butt of the survivors, but work them hard, in the style of the old FlightOptions.
(Kenn is back)
MS and Sanjay are released with severances.
New (family) of management comes on site.
Company seeks to decertify the union.
But here is the catch:
My hardcore coworkers have been preparing for this for two years. They've got documentation and recorded messages ad nauseum for all sorts of attempts at pilot pushing. FlightOptions got their initiative from Ford and Harrison, who have their own private agenda, who will take in tons of money fighting the union attorneys. The teamster fund is fat with cash for this fight.
Four years ago Flightoptions took on five union supporters and lost 8M, according to Raytheon's 10k report. And the company officer's testimony as read from the court transcripts was really weak. It's hard to believe KR had been to law school.
In addition to the FSDO being all over this with the myriad of documented company fudges. The company has probably pissed off other branches of the federal government.
We are in mediation. The methods of these 70 terminations would seem to smell fishy to the average Federal Mediation Board, I would think.
Many of our regularily absent have sick kids and spouses. And most of them still had the accural to cover it. But we have forced vacations at the discretion of company, although it's not presented that way of course. Somehow it would seem the Federal Department of Labor, and the Department of Labor of the State of Ohio would be ill at ease with this.
So here is my end game theory. The FlightOptions boat then will flood with lawsuits. And somewhere along the line they will lose the certificate or take significant fine, as TAG did. (Coincidentally the VP of Flight Operations previous employer).
Then bankruptcy occurs, but it won't be a reorganization, it'll be a liquidation.
Then I personally will end up at Netjets, 1500 numbers behind the 70 guys that were ejected from Flightoptions on 5-23-08, three years before me. I suspect they'll get some lawsuit money, too.
A theory:
Shock and Awe Program, get rid of lot of union board posters, and the senior union people; people with family health issues that keep them home unscheduled.
Boost Pilot Pay, kiss the butt of the survivors, but work them hard, in the style of the old FlightOptions.
(Kenn is back)
MS and Sanjay are released with severances.
New (family) of management comes on site.
Company seeks to decertify the union.
But here is the catch:
My hardcore coworkers have been preparing for this for two years. They've got documentation and recorded messages ad nauseum for all sorts of attempts at pilot pushing. FlightOptions got their initiative from Ford and Harrison, who have their own private agenda, who will take in tons of money fighting the union attorneys. The teamster fund is fat with cash for this fight.
Four years ago Flightoptions took on five union supporters and lost 8M, according to Raytheon's 10k report. And the company officer's testimony as read from the court transcripts was really weak. It's hard to believe KR had been to law school.
In addition to the FSDO being all over this with the myriad of documented company fudges. The company has probably pissed off other branches of the federal government.
We are in mediation. The methods of these 70 terminations would seem to smell fishy to the average Federal Mediation Board, I would think.
Many of our regularily absent have sick kids and spouses. And most of them still had the accural to cover it. But we have forced vacations at the discretion of company, although it's not presented that way of course. Somehow it would seem the Federal Department of Labor, and the Department of Labor of the State of Ohio would be ill at ease with this.
So here is my end game theory. The FlightOptions boat then will flood with lawsuits. And somewhere along the line they will lose the certificate or take significant fine, as TAG did. (Coincidentally the VP of Flight Operations previous employer).
Then bankruptcy occurs, but it won't be a reorganization, it'll be a liquidation.
Then I personally will end up at Netjets, 1500 numbers behind the 70 guys that were ejected from Flightoptions on 5-23-08, three years before me. I suspect they'll get some lawsuit money, too.
