Kenn Ricci Wants to Bring Back SFO Program

[Fedmagnet]

Of course it is on the table. It is now one more line item in the economics portion of the negotiations - in favor of the company. If WE don't want the program, then WE'LL have to be willing to negotiate it out. What are WE willing to give up in exchange for taking it off the table? This is just another negotiating tactic, much the same as taking away our 401(k) match and making us negotiate to get it back.

Frack!
Union Leadership should not even allow it to be laid on the table.
What the Frack!

Ricci is just Fracking with the pilots again, still and always.

 

[Fedmagnet]

When I applied in Writing for the sfo program I received a reply that the SFO program was being discontinued.. That was in 2001/02

That is because you did not fit the "PROFILE".

Many pilot were called by PMs like Rhienhold and told verbally that they would not get in and deterd them from continueing to try. At the same time the pilots that fit the "PROFILE "slid right in.

 

[FR8DOG777]

Meet the new boss same as the old boss. For the first time I may have to agree with shanes 123. We're fn f'''''''d. Stockholm syndrome working full effect on leaders. Disconnected with life on the line, whats next your own hawker to fly around to promote a chittty contract? The only thing these f##ckers understand is pain in the form of charter. Yeah boys roll your sleaves up so we can help the company out fn you harder. Both parties could give a chit about people on furlough.

 

[Fedmagnet]

Sfo

So the leadership has allowed it to become part of the forever and ever negociations but requireing the return of "hostages" has been pulled from the same table.

I see that Senority #1 has been pro SFO return and prazing the return of the masia.
"Would the applicant try to perpetuate that environment" check!
willing to "name names" check!
"attend to the slackers" check!
willing to fly broken planes? check, check, check, check, etc!

Ricci is laughing his azz off!

Contract now or shut the lights off.

 

[dime line]

Any version of an SFO program = a no vote for me. I dont care whats in that contract.

 

[993_Pilot]

Any version of an SFO program = a no vote for me. I dont care whats in that contract.

+1, you're not alone !

 

[hogbody]

Not Again

Heard that K.R. brought up the Senior Flight Officer thing again at wednesday's company meeting. Guess he must really be atached to it.

 

[1folinepilot]

Heard that K.R. brought up the Senior Flight Officer thing again at wednesday's company meeting. Guess he must really be atached to it.

It is a shame that Kenn does not trust his employees to work with him. He doesnt even have the courage to answer the basic questions that were submitted to him by his employees.

 

[ProFracPilot]

Open note to KR

It is a shame that Kenn does not trust his employees to work with him. He doesnt even have the courage to answer the basic questions that were submitted to him by his employees.

Kenn-

You returned last summer to the company you founded amidst great fanfare. The company meeting last July offered hope to a workforce that, overall, had some of the lowest morale of any group I've ever been associated with (thank you, sh!tfinger). Everyone was offered a free copy of "Management by Trust", and encouraged to read it. Your own written words were the basis for much of the renewed hope.

Well Kenn, you and your management team are now rapidly squandering the gains in trust you made with the pilot group since your return. The company meeting was a slap in the face to the pilots. Who, in the past 12 months, has "loved our owners" more? The pilots continue to go to great lengths to assure the insanity of Owners Services and the OCC never makes it to the owners. In addition to performing all the the technical aspects necessary to the safe completion of a flight, WE are the final and last chance customer service filter to assuring a great experience for our passengers. We've been working hard at doing this job well in part because of the bridge of trust that has been built between the pilot group and management. But this bridge is composed of flammable material. It is management's bridge to burn, and we are beginning to see that you have set the kindling in place.

This is folly, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that your HR people failed to give you the "meaty" questions that the pilot group wanted answered at the company meeting. By now you must have heard many, many more questions that should have been asked and answered in front of all the employees, but weren't. You have an opportunity to address these questions now. If for some reason you still haven't seen them, reach out to 1108 leadership. They'll provide you a comprehensive list of questions that we would all like answers to.

Time to step up Kenn. Let's see some Management by Trust.

 

[1folinepilot]

Kenn-

You returned last summer to the company you founded amidst great fanfare. The company meeting last July offered hope to a workforce that, overall, had some of the lowest morale of any group I've ever been associated with (thank you, sh!tfinger). Everyone was offered a free copy of "Management by Trust", and encouraged to read it. Your own written words were the basis for much of the renewed hope.

Well Kenn, you and your management team are now rapidly squandering the gains in trust you made with the pilot group since your return. The company meeting was a slap in the face to the pilots. Who, in the past 12 months, has "loved our owners" more? The pilots continue to go to great lengths to assure the insanity of Owners Services and the OCC never makes it to the owners. In addition to performing all the the technical aspects necessary to the safe completion of a flight, WE are the final and last chance customer service filter to assuring a great experience for our passengers. We've been working hard at doing this job well in part because of the bridge of trust that has been built between the pilot group and management. But this bridge is composed of flammable material. It is management's bridge to burn, and we are beginning to see that you have set the kindling in place.

This is folly, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that your HR people failed to give you the "meaty" questions that the pilot group wanted answered at the company meeting. By now you must have heard many, many more questions that should have been asked and answered in front of all the employees, but weren't. You have an opportunity to address these questions now. If for some reason you still haven't seen them, reach out to 1108 leadership. They'll provide you a comprehensive list of questions that we would all like answers to.

Time to step up Kenn. Let's see some Management by Trust.

The official MGT reply to this letter is,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEVDoL6J_U4

 

[GhettoBeechjet]

There will never be a reply. The company will drive the negoitations to an impasse and hire "replacement workers" just like Steenland did with the mechanics at NW.

 

[Freedom]

Hope you are incorrect Mr. C

There will never be a reply. The company will drive the negoitations to an impasse and hire "replacement workers" just like Steenland did with the mechanics at NW.

However, when the fight was started, a super majority decided they would rather lose their jobs than continue to have Pilot Funding of transporting the top 1% of income earners in the USA.

And indeed they have. From the time Mr. Sh-tfinger took over in his attempt to strip the company to the bone til now, FLOPS has gone from over 1000 pilots to now approx 300.

For those who remain, the ability to look one's self in the mirror in the morning has got to mean something. Do you really want to give into this attack, just to have the next owner come in and strip the place to the bone again, or would you like a contract?

I totally appreciate your desire to keep your job now that things have finally reached your seniority level (funny how some never cried out when the more junior guys were losing their jobs), but to give up now, would mean the fight is lost.

Does anyone think the NetJets Pilots would be compensated at their current levels if they ran away from the fight in 2005?

Everyone has to make decisions in their lives. This one belongs to you and the remaining survivors. But a divided group will never obtain what they deserve.

You can stand strong or you can walk around like Oliver saying, "Please Sir, may I have more?" See just how far that gets you with a Management Team lead by a CEO who has stated numerous times before that he believes he would be your best Union Steward.

Good Luck to you. Those of us who have sacrificed our careers at Flight Options for you and those that remain, hope you will have the intestinal fortitude to see the battle to the end and victory.


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