Glass.......

[PITbull]

Try again 700, he was in charge of inflight.

US AIRWAYS FILLS KEY OPEN EXECUTIVE POSITIONS
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 16, 2002 -- US Airways Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen M. Wolf announced today that the company has filled several key management level positions, effective immediately.

K. Nigel Adams, vice president - inflight services
Adams will be responsible for US Airways’ flight attendants, as well as the company’s dining and cabin services. Adams began his airline career with Piedmont Airlines approximately 20 years ago and has held management positions in customer services, the US Airways Express division, operations control, and dining and cabin services. He holds a bachelor of business administration degree from Marshall University.

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ISP,

The date states Jan 16, 2002 (just what I wrote above) and he lasted until mid March, 2002.

He had NO experience in the In-flight dept, nadda, zip,zero, ziltch. The guy came from Customer service. (and this management calls this "talent").

 

[Phantom Fixer]

I think some of you are way off your rocker.

I see Junior Mechanics whom have been furloughed , all of the sudden being hired as Supervisors and Managers in the same department that they were furloughed from weeks before as Mechanics all the time. Honestly the revolving door seems endless in this regard.


U as a whole has no shortage of qualified people to step up to..or into a vacancy as they happen to become available. The issue is..the haves protecting themselves as has always been the problem here.

Sure we have some Middle-Management types that need to go...and we have a number in CCY that need to go as well...but what needs to stay does not for a sencond warrant $55 Million or even $10 Million. . as CLT AFA President Flores stated...if you don't want to be here?...or if the pay doesn't meet your long range expectations? Leave !!!

 

[fatherof2]

Funny Nigel was the Station Manager in CLT, then got promoted to Dining and Cabin Services then OCC.

Funny he was never a F/A or a manager or supervisor in in-flight.

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Nigel is another example of, someone who "thinks"(and I don't mean literally) they know the job, but never once did the job they supervised. <_<

 

[EightySix]

I think giving retention bonuses carte blanche is a big mistake. Management at CCY might be getting calls from headhunters but there are alot of management at stations and RIDC that are nervous about this merger and what it means for their future. They aren't getting unsolicited job offers and there aren't alot of Pittsburgh companies hiring management at the salary levels they are getting. Let them look for new jobs. There are alot of furloughed US employees that will fill their shoes even on a contract basis. Chances are, they will stick around, take a transfer to Tempe if offered, or stay until their last day. They don't need a retention bonus to stick around. They would anyway.

 

[CaptianBoomer]

All:

I think this type of crap is the most dishonest, heinous BS I have ever heard of. These clowns think their pensions and livlihoods are sacred and ours are at their whim. Bure BS. If the judge approves this, he will approve anything.

Has anyone at U noticed the 20-40 managers leaving? In all my years at U, the fewer managers we had the fewer screwup there were.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Boomer

 

[MarkMyWords]

Just a comment about Nigel Adams. I had the honor of working for him and he was an outstanding manager. He was a rising star in the company but saw a greater opportunity at JetBlue. (And who says that headhunters aren't after the talented people working here.) He did not have to be in the inflight department to be an effective VP. He was very talented and very employee friendly. Had he remained in the VP - Inflight Services position he would have been very effecitve.

 

[700UW]

He did not have to be in the inflight department to be an effective VP.

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And there is the problem, putting people in charge of things they have no idea about.

Your statement is the reason why the company is in such disarray.

 

[MarkMyWords]

Bull Feathers.......you don't have to be a Flight Attendant to be an effective VP for the Inflight Department. For him to eventually become the Executive VP of Customer Service (Should Al leave) it would have been a tremendous asset for him to have experience in Customer Service, Inflight and Operations.....all areas that fall under the Executive VP. They were grooming him for something much better, where he would have been very effecitve. Much better then what we have now.

 

[calibrator]

Somebody please explain the "no ability" to hire from the outside.......

[post="274489"][/post]​

van·i·ty (vanÆi t"), n., pl. -ties, adj.
–n.
1. excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain; conceit: Failure to be elected was a great blow to his vanity.
2. an instance or display of this quality or feeling.
3. something about which one is vain.
4. lack of real value; hollowness; worthlessness: the vanity of a selfish life.
5. something worthless, trivial, or pointless.
6. See vanity case.
7. See dressing table.
8. a wide, counterlike shelf containing a wash basin, as in the bathroom of a hotel or residence, often equipped with shelves, drawers, etc., underneath.
9. a cabinet built below or around a bathroom sink, primarily to hide exposed pipes.
10. compact1 (def. 13).
–adj.
11. produced as a showcase for one's own talents, esp. as a writer, actor, singer, or composer: a vanity production.
12. of, pertaining to, or issued by a vanity press: a spate of vanity books.
[1200–50; ME vanite < OF < L v!nit!s, equiv. to v!n- (see VAIN) + -it!s- -ITY]
—vanÆi·tied, adj.
—Syn. 1. egotism, complacency, vainglory, ostentation. See pride. 4. emptiness, sham, unreality, folly, triviality, futility.
—Ant. 1. humility.



pride (pr#d), n., v., prid·ed, prid·ing.

–n.
1. a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
2. the state or feeling of being proud.
3. a becoming or dignified sense of what is due to oneself or one's position or character; self-respect; self-esteem.
4. pleasure or satisfaction taken in something done by or belonging to oneself or believed to reflect credit upon oneself: civic pride.
5. something that causes a person or persons to be proud: His art collection was the pride of the family.
6. the best of a group, class, society, etc.: This bull is the pride of the herd.
7. the most flourishing state or period: in the pride of adulthood.
8. mettle in a horse.
9. Literary. splendor, magnificence, or pomp.
10. a group of lions.
11. sexual desire, esp. in a female animal.
12. ornament or adornment.
13. pride and joy, someone or something cherished, valued, or enjoyed above all others: Their new grandchild is their pride and joy.
–v.t.
14. to indulge or plume (oneself) in a feeling of pride (usually fol. by on or upon): She prides herself on her tennis.
[bef. 1000; ME (n.); OE pr&de (c. ON pr&thi bravery, pomp), deriv. of pr%d PROUD]
—prideÆful, adj.
—prideÆful·ly, adv.
—prideÆful·ness, n.
—prideÆless, adj.
—prideÆless·ly, adv.
—Syn. 1. PRIDE, CONCEIT, SELF-ESTEEM, EGOTISM, VANITY, VAINGLORY imply an unduly favorable idea of one's own appearance, advantages, achievements, etc., and often apply to offensive characteristics. PRIDE is a lofty and often arrogant assumption of superiority in some respect: Pride must have a fall. CONCEIT implies an exaggerated estimate of one's own abilities or attainments, together with pride: blinded by conceit. SELF-ESTEEM may imply an estimate of oneself that is higher than that held by others: a ridiculous self-esteem. EGOTISM implies an excessive preoccupation with oneself or with one's own concerns, usually but not always accompanied by pride or conceit: His egotism blinded him to others' difficulties. VANITY implies self-admiration and an excessive desire to be admired by others: His vanity was easily flattered. VAINGLORY, somewhat literary, implies an inordinate and therefore empty or unjustified pride: puffed up by vainglory. 5. boast.
—Ant. 1. humility.



ar·ro·gance (arÆÃ gÃns), n.
offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.
Also, arÆro·gan·cy.
[1275–1325; ME < MF < L arrogantia presumption. See ARROGANT, -ANCE]
—Syn. haughtiness, insolence, disdain.
—Ant. humility, modesty, diffidence.


Above compliments of___________

e·vil ("ÆvÃl), adj.
1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life.
2. harmful; injurious: evil laws.
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
4. due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation.
5. marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.
6. the evil one, the devil; Satan.
–n.
7. that which is evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct: to choose the lesser of two evils.
8. the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin.
9. the wicked or immoral part of someone or something: The evil in his nature has destroyed the good.
10. harm; mischief; misfortune: to wish one evil.
11. anything causing injury or harm: Tobacco is considered by some to be an evil.
12. a harmful aspect, effect, or consequence: the evils of alcohol.
13. a disease, as king's evil.
–adv.
14. in an evil manner; badly; ill: It went evil with him.
[bef. 900; ME evel, evil, OE yfel; c. Goth ubils, OHG ubil, G übel, OFris, MD evel]
—eÆvil·ly, adv.
—eÆvil·ness, n.
—Syn.1. sinful, iniquitous, depraved, vicious, corrupt, base, vile, nefarious. See bad1. 2. pernicious, destructive. 7. wickedness, depravity, iniquity, unrighteousness, corruption, baseness. 10. disaster, calamity, woe, misery, suffering, sorrow.
—Ant.1. righteous.

 

[700UW]

Bull feathers?

Ok I am going to make you VP Of Pricing, lets see how well you do with no experience.

 

[whlinder]

Can't do much worse...

 

[SpinDoc]

None of the unionized employees got a "retention" bonus to stay employed, that is the problem, everyone gets severence, no one needs millions to sent packing or be paid to stay.

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700UW:

You and I BOTH know who the retention
bonuses are earmarked for, and it's not
your average Joe management employee
in a low level position in CCY or another
department. All that needs to happen is
for Judge Mitchell to split the proposal
into two parts, 1. Retention, 2. Severance.
Then he can rule against the retention part
and rule in favor of the severance.

But.... the unions would STILL whine
because that's what they do.

 

[700UW]

The unions won't whine, no one has a problem with a regular CCY employee getting severence, no one above manager should get anything and no one should get a retention bonus.

Seems to me you have a case of union envy, and you forget the billions of dollars that those "whiny" union members gave back to this company in concessions has kept this company afloat and still given you a paycheck.

 

[Light Years]

I disagree about not needing experience in the job you are supervising or VP-ing, particularly Inflight.

The flight attendant job is very unique and you should have flown the line (for that airline, on the same aircraft types, under the same contracts) before you start putting out memos telling people how to do thier job.

This has been a problem at US, and more recently MAA.

 

[700UW]

And by the way Crellin is Executive VP of Operations, not EVP of Customer Service and there is no such postion, Donna Paladini is Vice President of Customer Service.