Lupees In Demand

Down, Down, Down

I'z just gotta say... I love me some Lupees! Have you noticed that demand is down? Our long-term strategy is working. Lupee and I are systematically organizing all the employees. This will of course ratchet up wages for everyone, costs that we can easily pass along to all of our customers. After all, we are profitable, building more buildings, expanding internationally, and ordering billions and billions worth of airplanes.

We have been told that demand is down because of the weather, but Lupee, Bend Over, and all of us die-hards know better. It's down because our prices are way, way, up! Traveling on first class from coast-to-coast is the way to go. Cheap charter is plentiful and saves the corporations millions each year. And we are so awesome, everyone remembers us! See http://bit.ly/Iuwk4X Could it be the refresher in picket signology that we gave the competition? http://j.mp/KunXF7

Yes! Things we do in public can benefit the competition and lower demand! Mad genius!

The best is yet to come. Lupee's strategy of scaring the @#$% out of the COMPANY is working! I am SURE they are going to extend the contract and our strategy of organizing the pilots in Europe is working. I am told that the customers in Europe are plentiful and the prices are low, so the Europeans will fund our pay raises! Also, since the contract will be extended for sure, we will not have to worry about the scope loophole where international flying could be performed by international pilots like the Europeans. Those pilots will be so grateful for our help, the last thing they will want to do is have a crew base in LAX or JFK, right? I can tell that the 30 of us who DNF, write up airplanes that are good, and control the echo chamber, are truly scaring the pants off of the COMPANY and they will extend the contract for SURE!!! Who would want to bargain with us? We're foamin' at the mouth, cartoon t-shit weain' mother-%^&ers! Don't mess with us!!!

I can't believe I was so wrong for so long. Will my feathered friends forgive me? That $150k a year is burning a hole in my pocket. The four 28-day vacations I get a year is not enough! My 50% 401(k) match and 5000 mutual funds to choose from is totally outrageous. The one pilot who was fired for fraud in the last 18 months is a disturbing trend in oppression that we simply cannot tolerate! I am ready for war. The current pay is a slap in the face insult. I can wait them out. Hand me a picket sign and a furlough notice because I can replace my income and my seniority in 10, 15 short years, tops!

There, I feel much better. Stay the course, chaps. Whatever may happen, do not change horses now.

Luppes4Ever! Lupees4Ever! Lupees4Ever! Get a CLUE - wait, never mind, we have a CLUE. Nice job.

#Meow! #NamNamNamNamNamYum!

- LQSG

Me Love Me Some Lupees

Goose Has Finally Embraced Her Inner Lupee

I must confess to all of you fellow Aviators. I was wrong. Not just a little wrong. Totally wrong. 

Presidente Lupees is a genius and I was wrong and selfish for ever doubting him. I, QS Goose, do solemnly pledge to take the time to revamp this satire blog and make it an anti-management blog from here on out. It has become clear to me since February that the current COMPANY weedership is on a doomsday spiral of ever more anti-union and anti-union rights actions that will eventually impact all trade unionists on the property. If you got yours, the COMPANY weedership is coming after it. The COMPANY weedership wants you to do more with less, for less. The COMPANY weedership hates you and your mother. It is so obvious that if the COMPANY weedership could sell your mother for a 4% margin then they would!

Over the last several weeks the Lupees Wolf Pack has educated me with the same precision of an SS Deathsquad and the same tact as a latin junta or bitter academy dropout. They have sent Pepe Le Tool, Don Wenny, Unfitness for Doodies program sponsor Roundbush, Angry Britney, Ramone Tooty-Fruity, and others out to help me re-remember what did not happen and remind me of what I misremembered. Thank goodness for the echo chamber.

It was finally the call from Eee Dee Pee Jimmy that got me over the hump. He spent 250 hours this week, on the union dime, illuminating the way and showing me the errors of my past. Finally, he read me in on Lord Lupees' strategery for ensuring job security for himself and his loyal minions. I am totally in, and I fully expect to be appointed to a duty of high-dues-dollar responsibility once this is all over and the final solution has been applied. The key to the strategy is one dozen simple ideas: Solidarity, Honor, Integrity, Transparency, Support, Autonomy, Numbers, Dominate, Withholding, Inflexibility, Can-Do, and Hell.

The concept is so simple and delicious, I ate it all up and when I work out I sweat little drops of Lupees.

Lord Lupees' Strategy: YUM!

Solidarity: We are going to organize everything we can under the current company weedership. It's so simple. If we secure a large, permanent increase for everyone else, then when it's our turn, there will be plenty of money left over! Don't worry, after the COMPANY weedership is forced to shut down all the smaller organized functions, we can divide up what's left. We can even use the iPads to act as virtual Flight Attendants, Virtual Dispatchers, and Virtual maintenance controllers. It will work great, it's all in our interest, and has an added bonus of making Lord Lupees the undisputed King Of Organizing. Solidarity means that we separated from a national union with conflicts of interest with us so that we could in turn support those whose interests conflict with us.
 

Honor: We must honor our fathers. All of our STRONG UNION fathers and mother have told us that we do not know what we are doing, and they are right. Thinking exclusively from the customer's point of view can only lead to more business for the COMPANY weedership, more revenue fore the weedership to keep for demselves, and more airplanes that will require more stupid pilots. Thank goodness that our STRONG UNION fathers and mother are here to set us straight! In fact, it makes perfect sense that Bend Over is giving us good advice, because he in NO WAY could be working for the competition and in NO WAY is trying to peel off high-value customers and harm US, right? No way! And the former VC? He definitely wants whats best for us - - - DEFINITELY! No bitterness or hard feelings whatsoever, and Lord Lupees is far to intelligent to get played, or paid, right? Ab-so-lutely! Honor means knowing when to shut up and tow the line of those who really know how to bring the COMPANY to her knees.
 

Integrity: This whole thing where we don't get a fair say and the SU Fathers and Mother will just decide to re-write and re-interpret the law and do the right thing is totally legitimate. I would not trust me to vote. EDP Jimmy explained the whole thing. The boss appoints replacements who help appoint replacements to the boss and they all decide to use one different part of the law to interpret another and decide FOR all of us if an issue raised by another part of the law can or should be decided by us. That seems fair, for sure. It's not like the number of us who wanted to vote is very close, percentage-wise, to the number of us who elected Lord Lupee. Follow? Makes sense to me. Totally high integrity and worth every dues dollar. Integrity means sticking together, through thick and thin, regardless of what the rules say.
 

Transparency: Take my word for it. I went back and reviewed every piece of Lord Lupee's communication to me and it was all 100% truthful, well-done, and in fairness to all of us. There is no corporate campaign at work. No lies by omission, no grotesque exaggerations, no total misconceptions, and no bad strategic decisions made based on information from fired executives. It's all legit. Transparency means keep the reactive strategy going, there's no plans to see here, so don't even ask.
 

The first four concepts stand alone, and whet my appetite for what's coming.
 

Support: Support means helping the COMPANY weedership compete against cheap charter by continuously reminding the customers that they pay a premium for the inflexibility and premium wages that come with cumbersome, hard-fought contracts. Picket signs, billboards, banners towed behind airplanes all give customers that "my pilots are here for me" feeling and really add to top-line revenue. I asked why we were engaged in economic warfare when demand is declining and we needed more customers, not less, and the blank stare of confidence I received in response was all i needed. Plus he murmured something about needing respect. I am all in. Support means lighting my career on fire for another groups fight.
 

Autonomy: This one is so simple, I can't believe I missed it. Autonomy means having the power to extend the voting timeline when you need to, putting things up for a vote when you don't have the balls to agree to it yourself, and refusing to put something out for a vote when you are afraid the outcome will harm your interests.
 

Numbers: The Numbers Principle is simple - if we have all the power we don't need any numbers. We also don't need to discuss real numbers with COMPANY weedership and we can use our industry contacts of former COMPANY weedership who now want to bring the COMPANY down to fill us in. I think we should cancel the confidentiality agreements again. We have the power we need, we don't need any numbers.
 

Dominate: The Wolf Pack helped me to understand the Dominate Principle. If we dominate internal communications and intimidate our enemies it's a win-win. We run off the smart people who are too intelligent to spend personal time wrestling with our small numbers and we permanently harm our ability to maintain unity going forward. Check out the profile of our leading supporters... in need of your vote of confidence.

Don't worry, it only LOOKS like a horse's ass is running.
 

Withholding: The withholding principle means using the power of small numbers to make big decisions, in spite of existing investment policies. Such as buying a $120,000 share of a company with dues funds when and $80 share gets you the same rights. It also means hiding the secret we know what is in your best interests strategy from everyone else. EDP Jimmy and Pepe Le Tool assured me we would be well represented at the shareholder's meeting:

A Dry Run of Our "Questions From The Floor" Campaign.

What, you didn't know? Withholding in progress. Don't worry, we know what's best.
 

Inflexibility: Inflexibility means using the power we've wrestled to ignore the fact that the world around us is changing, and confidently burying our head in the sand while claiming we're breathing clean air and everyone on the surface has their head where the sun don't shine. It means blaming all our shortcomings on COMPANY weedership and not offering to do anything to help increase demand or grow the business. We got ours and it makes sense. Senior guys, look the other way while we give up your long range flying to the very European Pilots we helped organize. Scope is more than mouthwash, but it ain't supplemental lift! Inflexibility means we protect ours at all costs - even if we have to sacrifice the very junior and very senior.
 

Can-Do: We can do anything we want, and we have proven that. We can blame COMPANY weedership for failure. We can demand that Omaha either shut us down or sell us (because we ARE NOT like toxic mold in a house, right? Everyone wants endemic, and manufactured, strife, right?) and shutting us down is in Lord Lupee's best interest as an inflexible, hard-line, revisionist history leader, so I trust him implicitly. He can do what he wants with my dues money and that's OK with me.

Hell:  The Hell Principle is simple enough. We will continue to organize until we wither fulfill our dream of upholding the interests of the national union, or getting our COMPANY weedership fired, or selling the company, which should be easy to do, since we are in no way regarded as an example of endemic labor strife or toxic mold in a house that's for sale. We can put our careers in the same handbasket that Lord Lupees will take to Hell with his super organizing resume where he can move on and have a lucritive retirement with big labor. I am in.

I am no longer QSG. I am his little lion, his Biotch. I wuv his stwategy and I an gonna eat it aww up. "Nam nam nam nam nam. That's some good S-H-I-T S-A-N-D-W-I-C-H he's feedin' us. Yum!"

 







- Meow!
LQSG
Luppees QS Goose

How to Handle Little Liars

http://on.wsj.com/K7qUuz via @WSJ

Don't forget the classics, like "Look, Fuzzy Bunny!" and "How could it be a lie if I did not tell it to you?"

A classic move for frustrated liars and tools.
It really means, "D'Oh, you're not believing my message board fiction!?"

Coming soon, the adventures of Pepe Le Tool and other Proxy Warriors from the Echo Chamber.

 I think I've changed my mind.

"Lupees 4-Ever!"

Honk, Comrade! Honk!

LQSG

Which Boss Did You Get Today?

The objectives of the Real Original Strong Union Founders was to create a sustainable system to protect pilot interests, represent pilots, and promote the profession. That goal was accomplished in 2005 and improved upon in 2007. What's left is a system that requires pilots to remain engaged and take responsibility for the outcome. Are you engaged?

How can you tell the difference between a REAL Original SU Creator and polluted, self-serving, corrupt mind sets? Well, here's two indicators:

1. Real SU Founders believe in pilots and respect the profession. Ego-centric false leaders think pilots are dumb and need to be herded along like sheeple.

2. Real SU Founders believe and have confidence in the system they created with and for pilots: An independent union with established bylaws, principles, policies, and effective volunteers. Corrupt professional politicians will say anything and do anything, including directly or indirectly threaten volunteers with removal from status, loss of stipend money, humiliation, or more. Real leaders believe in their people.

Seen any evidence this week? Volunteers in CMH, which Lupee have you met with?

Don't you know what I'm capable of?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Promises, promises?

This is going to hurt you more than it's going to hurt me.

Well, fear not. Your real Brothers and Sisters on the line see it for what it is.... Pure Politics. Welcome to election season and TRUST THE PILOTS.

#NoFear
#ComeAndGetIt
#Honk

- QSG

Eno-Eno-Rouf for Friday, February 3

I'll save you time...

President's Letter:

A "FUD" dud.

If you have even a rudimentary understanding of the charter, managed aircraft, and whole aircraft management business, the meaning of this week's letter is clear: 

Fishing for support, he's caught in more lies.

So either he KNOWs and he's deceiving you, or he has no idea what he's talking about and wants you to think he can lead you out of this.

I am thinking it's a total lie.

Consistent with his method of attracting owners and customers:

 

That's about enough.

#Honk

QSG

Guest Montage: The Echo Chamber

On patrol in the Echo Chamber

Peddling his recollection of history and imagined facts

She blames that guy she slept with for everything

To try and scare her little ducks back into a row

Meanwhile, from an "undisclosed location"...

This one pretends to be an unbiased sentinel of Safety and ASAP...

Common mission... Treat Pilots like sheep.

So they can get off on political power.

Well done!

#Honk!

QSG

Guest Commentary - Save The Green Pigs

 In one of CNET’s reviews of the popular video game Angry Birds, CNET summarizes the game succinctly: “The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the Birds eggs. Use the unique destructive powers of the Angry Birds to lay waste to the pigs fortified castles. Angry Birds features hours of gameplay, challenging physics-based castle demolition, and lots of replay value. Each of the 288 levels requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy.” 

The current Lupees leadership, their steipended “volunteers” and conjunctivitis-striken (can’t see themselves going to work) Lupeeites have branded the pilots as “Angry Birds.” CNET left out some details about the Birds. My girlfriends and I LOVE Angry Birds. The funniest thing about the game is that the birds are suicidal. If you have not played the game, you need to know that each level depends on launching the minimum number of suicidal birds that either explode on impact, drop an explosive egg, ricochet around, and eventually die in some humorous manner.

Please take a look at the new NJASAP Logo:

[Yes, this has been featured in internal communications by elected officials as their "brand." T-shirts, hats, stickers, and probably picket signs are either made or in the works. Also yes, you - can't - make - this - stuff - up.]

So. What’s the point? Are the pilots angry, suicidal, or what? What about the Pigs? The cuddly green pigs sometimes wear helmets, taunt the birds, and always oink. Is the analogy that the pigs are the EMT and stole their eggs? I thought it was the goose that laid the golden eggs? Is this more traditional unionism where we fear that management is stealing eggs from the workers that produced the eggs? Does the logo reflect the strategy to destroy the pigs’ (management) shelter and blow them up?

I LOVE it! It fits perfectly. Instead of meeting management at the table and talking about how to make more eggs, we’re going to ask pilots to blow themselves up in a suicidal attempt to take more eggs for themselves. They are even going to organize more groups into suicidal birds just like themselves. How’s that going, Dispatch?

The logo sums up our current leadership perfectly: Unable to communicate with words or actions they must resort to iconic cartoons to express themselves, and the analogies fit perfectly. Congratulations. QSG, please rename your site “Save The Green Pigs” because we need to communicate to our leaders on their maturity level, and we may not love our Green Pigs, but they are the only leaders with a plan to make more golden eggs for all of us.

“Oink!”

Taking the profession to the cartoon-level and ASSuming we will sacrifice our careers for yours. Great job a**-wipes.

#Honk #Oink

- QSG

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

QSG Respects The Process. The Golden Goose thanks any one who wants me to be healthy and prosperous and capable of laying golden eggs for many years to come for all to enjoy. It would seem as though some of my 2012 Predictions may be called into question. For now, we can celebrate the possibilities thanks to the Bee Gees.

To health and prosperity, I honk.

#Honk!

-QSG

Democracy rules.

The January 13 Eno-Eno-Rouf, In Pictures

Follow me and a new world to you will appear.

In a blaze of glorious anger and a spaceship of lies we will fly to victory.

All I ask is that you sacrifice your career.

#Honk!

- QSG

Guest Commentary - Cost of Hubris

Bravo. Now that's satire. Though I think the company will shut down EJM long before giving up the only shield we have to low-cost charter. Looks like we will just live with the agreement and endure the PR harm from administrative furlough-recalls. What? Lupee did not tell you about that?

Click here if the video did not play.

#Honk!

- QSG

It Does Not Take a Swami to Predict Lupee's 2012 Goose Eggs

"It's all coming to me now... more of the same for 2012..."

Honk! Honk! I am back from the islands and ready with a fully-researched batch of posts. I also have a bag of viewer mail and video, including notes from labor, management, and the people caught in the middle. January is going to be great fun for all lovers of satire and those willing to laugh at how low and slow some are willing to fly to try and manipulate others! Before we get to the (belated) predictions for 2012, I must recognize one pilot that wrote in during December just before I left. A 12-year captain in the X who wrote in to describe how he sat down over his Christmas break and printed and read every single Lupee Eno-Eno-Rouf since July of 2008 and he reported back that anyone willing to do same would see why management will not touch Lupee, line pilots are confused/infected with Lupees, and as a public figure Lupee is the best source of satire that we have next to the 2012 Presidential campaign. Thank you. Now, on to...

12 Crystal-Clear Predictions for 2012

12. BAD INFO MOJO

Lupee will continue to coordinate with terminated / resigned "on principle" partner Bend Over, and claim that they have deep business knowledge of how the company works in spite of not once coming to the table to accept inside data and work on any interest-based solutions (also known as pathetically cobbling together publicly available information and guessing).

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11. GOOD MONEY FOR FOOT BULLETS

Lupee will continue to spend dues money, payer fees, and management pilot fees on organizing 1) NJE pilots that will turn around and bargain international flying away from NJASAP pilots, 2) Flight Center employees who, if organized, will have to wait years to see any contractual benefits and be excluded from any profit sharing, 3) EJM pilots/employees, resulting in the destruction of EJM and a flood of aircraft into the low-cost charter market, shrinking the moat and harming the longevity of the fractional provider.

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10. SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY WILL BE SELF-FULFILLED

Will the parent company ask the company to order less airplanes because the sector is depressed, charter has never been cheaper, and sales are soft OR will the parent company ask the company to restructure orders, order less airplanes because the union radicals are making war and owners flee to cheap charter? Fellow flyers - does the reason why matter? The Goose needs help, ideas, interest-based proposals. We have enough problems already without making more. To stop the self-fulfilling prophecies we will need leaders that think for themselves, or have balls. Either will do. Neither is likely.

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9. LUPEE'S HATRED WILL BANKRUPT THE UNION

How do I know? I asked A THIRD PARTY what it costs to arbitrate each 401(k) grievance. Even when bundled together, the 1000 or so grievances will cost each party $5-6 Million. Will Hansell want to pay that much to break the union's bank account? I hope he is not reading the Eno-Eno-Roufs, because only an industry vet would be able to resist the bait. Did you know that even with the different types of harm (portfolio increases of 1-4%), they all qualify for the single class-action? I sure hope the company agrees to roll them into one... of course Lupee is counting on your willingness to pay for picket signs, banner tows, newspaper ads, and of course, regular union operations like stipends for stewards by assessing the members for more dues once he's emptied out the bank account. Looks like one symptom of Lupees is letting anger keep one from thinking things through. Just look at patient zero.

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8. FINGER-POINTING WILL SIGNAL THE BEGINNING OF THE WIND-DOWN

Bend Over and Lupees will blame mis-management for the wind-down. Management will blame union rhetoric for the wind down. It won't matter, the 500-800 pilots that get to fly the permanently smaller company will have theirs (well, the 250-400 Captains will, anyway). Truth is, the parent company will decide if the shrinking will continue - based on their confidence in the employees to execute the growth plan - the very plan the union is avoiding seeing at all costs, since then they would be accountable for actually participating. The current path is much easier for the future consulting careers of union leadership.

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7. LUPEES WILL ENDORSE THE "SELL THE COMPANY" FANTASY

Yes, sell the company. Free market forces will suddenly realize that a product that in some markets is 4x more expensive than charter, with runaway labor costs and no alternatives in sight, with huge debt and a razor-thin margin, is a GREAT buy. Perhaps the old chairman will buy the place back - certainly that's why he sold Celene's old crib at a discount, so he can bet that on one of his horses, win big, and buy it all back....

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6. ABUSE OF VOLUNTEERS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

Lupee will continue to sit on / interfere with as many joint company-union activities as possible in order to suppress the communication of strategic, monthly, and daily progress on the committee level. Volunteers that dare to collaborate with their company partners will be forever branded as "company leg-humpers" and either fired, discredited, or humiliated into leaving their positions so that an appropriately stipend-ed Lupeeite can sit there and make war out of every opportunity.

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5. MORE CLASSIC HITS: LIE, LIE, LIE, AND MAKE COUNTER-ACCUSATIONS

Lack of engagement is the strategy that allows Lupees to spin the web of lies. Trying to run a business is what allows the company to continue to make mistakes that give credit to the lies. 401k communication? Riiiight. Pilots being brought in for dicipline? Riiiight. Reliable sources claim individual pilot data is being culled from intellijet and it will soon be clear that the 40 bullies that dominate the river of lies on the message boards are the top fatiguers, sick-callers, and policy abusers that cause the rest of us to sit standby more and get home later. When on earth is someone going to grow some balls and fire those people? See, there is room for improvement on both sides. Company can be more transparent, union can stop allowing the worst of the worst to set the strategy from the internet.

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4. ALL UNION CREDIBILITY WILL BE DESTROYED

Once it could be said that every pilot was "the union." Increasingly it is obvious that "the union" is in the mind of a handful of self-interested die-hards, and die their credibility will, along with that of every other pilot. It is bad enough that unprofessional behavior and bullying led to "informational picketing" that will forever harm the brand in the eyes of the owners and prospective owners, but because the company will not bend-over and accept childish antics the picketing, taunting via billboards, will escalate to newspaper adds, banner tows, and leafleting. Leverage is not being created. The ability of the company to sit down and expect to accomplish anything is evaporating. The word of union leaders will mean nothing, making any deals impossible and the slow death of the company inevitable. If self-fulfilling prophecies can be molded into interest-based proposals, or even honest meetings, then there may be hope.

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3. THE COMPANY WILL NEVER AGAIN HAVE A SMALL-GROUP MEETING WITH THE UNION

Simple explanation: No one can trust the dude farther than you can throw him, and one or two sycophants do not make reliable witnesses. Just go to njcrew and catch up on the correspondence and you will see that Lupees has a purpose in life... occupying hundreds of hours of company resources setting the record straight.

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2. THE "YOU CAN'T CHANGE HORSES MID-STRIDE" BATTLE CRY WILL BE IN VOGUE

There is an election looming and the ultimate union FUD campaign is around the corner. It will go like this, "Look, the company is buying X (airplanes, companies, FBOs, Chinese battery plants) and you need me to negotiate your next agreement." It is true, we need an experienced, mature negotiator working for us. But who is that? Can we pay for that experience? What if bargaining becomes prolonged? Then what? Who can provide consistency? I don't know. I DO know that Lupee could not close a revolving door, much less a deal. Just ask around. There's a six-year old quote from some of the negotiating committee members about his ability to close.

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1. WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, THE PERSONAL ATTACKS WILL CONTINUE

Because, as you will hear:

"It's not our/my fault. It's all their fault."
- It takes two to tango and Lupees forces them onto the high road so far, they will have to execute the business plan without union input.

"We can't work with lawyers like Kheller and Rosenthal."
- That's right, you can't.

"We have more experience running companies than they do."
- Running them into the ground.

"They are not wissening to me!"
-  Go to Cornell and learn Interest-Based Bargaining, stop spending your constituent money harming their interests, halt the baseless rhetoric, then maybe they will have something to listen to.

"They have brought in union-busters!"
- At this point, who can blame them. I hope they aren't wasting the money on them, because just as a company that needs a union gets a union, a union can only really bust itself and Lupee is doing a bang-up job!

"Let's go down the list and discredit each and every manager..."
- I have never heard of a manager discrediting a union rep. Have you? Hmmm.

"We know who the Goose is, and he's the Weasel!"
- That's right, because Lupee is counting on the fact that no one else can put it together. With a network that spans all sides I, QS Goose, can report that there are no sides, just fools with opinions. Based on the bullying on the boards, is it any wonder why I allow the discussion of my identity to continue? I'll give you a hint... the last time Lupee spoke to the pilots at the hotel I was right there within 20 feet. Good luck with that! Honk!

- QSG

Confessions of a Union Organizer

Chapter 1: You Can’t Argue With Lies of Omission

This week’s episode of Organize at All Costs, aka Eno Eno Ruof, aka 911, El Presidente enchants us with a vision of unity and an almost misty appeal to our heart-strings in the face of oppression from the monolithic company.

An all-out high-dollar media blitz results in near zero media coverage. Why? Maybe because it was timed to gin up the pilots and try and trick people into calling in sick, fatigued, and write up airplanes that aren’t really broken right in the middle of the peak season. Maybe consideration was not given to the fact that central Ohio is #1 out of the top 12 US metro areas in POVERTY, and the news does not give a goose crap about a media campaign built around a retirement program in a community where pilots are the 1% and work for the 1%. DER!

But don’t worry, Lupee managed to hire a professional photographer and make 45 pilots look like 80, even without the support of the Flight Attendants, and with the support of…... drum roll please……3 or 4 dispatchers and 10 or 11 mechanics. Actual observations put the total strength at 65 sustained for 25 minutes – a far cry from 80 pilots. So when you subtract all the IBT reps, pilot union staff, union paid pilots (e-board, stewards, certain committee members), how many pilots remain? When you further subtract the 15 (out of 45) pilots in recurrent that were intimidated into coming down for 30 minutes, how many pilots remain? When you subtract the Lazy Bears that want to protect their non-flying call in fatigued and sick and let someone else do the work habits, how many REAL pilots remained?

So if I wanted to attract attention I would have marched in the sunlight on the corner of Stelzer and Easton Way – where the traffic is. Instead, the ragged band of disorganized picketers sauntered around in the shade – almost hidden from traffic. Who noticed? Why were most of them wearing sunglasses? Embarrassed, maybe? Afraid Lupee would cut you off from your stipend? Kick you off the committee? Make you, gasp, fly???

There are just a few holes in the 911, as usual. Ask your friends in IT and facilities that were right there. They will even tell you that the event ended 40 minutes ahead of schedule. The joke at Easton is that they had to leave early…for a union break. I am sure glad my dues paid for that, and when I learned that the end-of-year sales surge is being slowed by the competition using the AIN article to sell fear of union strife as a reason to not fly the goose… well, my heart swells with pride. I can’t wait for these aces to picket in Omaha and at the Bridgeway grand opening, maybe even add more billboards or a banner tow. Maybe when real negotiating begins the bank account can be so close to zero that we have to layoff employees at the union office.

It just gets better. The 911 waxes on about how Lupee has 20 years of experience in these maters. Is that why the next section of the Watchtower invites all of us to consider filing stacks of grievances related to the 401(k)? Ginning up more fear and harm, knowing with 20 years of experience that all those filings will be converted to a single class-action and wasting everyone’s time? He has already promised to join with his IBT brothers (sisters are busy negotiating for real) and file an actual lawsuit. All of this (redundant) administrative activity requested in the "Day Of Issues" Section? Really? Day Of who? The union? 20 years of experience means we know what we are doing.

Real purpose? Create 100-200 grievances on a single issue so he can clearly and accurately tell the press that “grievances have skyrocketed” and the union has “multiple grievances” with the goose. So never mind how the company collaborated in LMRC and the Dispute Resolution Working Group to cut the arbitration docket by 2/3 just days before the picket.

It is all so clear to me now why the company should sit down and listen to these fine representatives. In fact, when was the last time the company asked for subcontracting relief? I had not heard that since, say, March. Hmmm. At the time it did not even sound like relief. It sounded like a request to send in reps to discuss options. Who spun that up into a poison pill: ["Er, 1.5c3 = EJM" or "Shut down EJM ans send 110 airplanes into the low-cost charter market and take away MORE business though direct competition. Eureka! Genius!]? Seems like the organizers are telling us what to think again. Just like they are telling dispatchers to not sweat the lack of pay raises and profit sharing this year – they’ll get full retro. Anyone out there EVER get full retro? Believe that and you can believe I have unlimited golden eggs for you. Is anyone taking the bait who say, hasn't called in fatigued more than 15 times this year or has some personal beef with individual managers or some unfinished business complex?

Have fun choking me to death with fabricated strife. Fear always unifies. Just be careful, unified, educated, and unafraid pilots don’t care where they “Get their pound.” It just might be out of you.

HONK!

QSG

The Adventures of Fuzzy Wuzzy and Diamond Jim

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no Lupees
Fuzzy Wuzzy hates to fly
Fuzzy Wuzzy likes to picket
Fuzzy Wuzzy is always tired
Does Fuzzy Wuzzy have Lupees or the perfect cause to be Lazy Bear?

Breaking News... early in November Fuzzy Wuzzy aka "Lazy Bear" suddenly buries the hatchet with his longtime nemesis Luther Lupee and they agree that they have both had enough of the companies antics of ignoring groups of people out to kill the golden goose. Last week Fuzzy drives to the Goose's Nest on his own time and pickets, posing for pictures, then makes sure all the Goose's competition believes there is labor strife at the Goose. On Wednesday, Fuzzy Wuzzy is amongst the 45 po-pilots that declare total war on the goose and proudly proclaim they are - "duh," in for a pound! Fan mail sent to the goose on Friday reveals that both Fuzzy Wuzzy and Diamond Jim called in fatigued the first chance they got. Now we know flying 72 days a year can be really grueling, and some days might require the po-lots to go to bed early and/or even, gasp, call and ask for more rest. But, see, Lazy Bear has gone and called off 19 times so far this year.

So let me ask you honkers out there... If Fuzzy Wuzzy thinks that damaging sales by joining with Lupee to fake conflict also thinks abusing policy (each call causes 1-5 flights to be rescheduled and usually causes real pilots to have to sit standby longer and/or have longer days) and harming real pilots is the way to conduct yourself professionally, then either Wuzzy has got Lupees real bad or this is just another excuse for Lazy Bear to take advantage of everyone else. I, for one, am totally shocked that our naive and inexperienced CEO would not want to meet with hot-shots like these, because they obviously have an interest in helping the goose survive and thrive, right? Sure.

Meanwhile, at Diamond Jim's Arcade and house of mirrors, this know-it-all po-lot who claims to care about other employees and wants to help the goose, promotes himself to Picket Captain on Monday, sends photos of picketers to the competition on Tuesday, and takes offense because no one wants to hear his twisted bullshit on Wednesday, then calls in fatigued on his first day of actual work. If this is Diamond Jim's idea of unity and leadership, then I suppose we are going to need all the charitable contributions we can possibly make because this kind of goose-choking will put all of us out of work.

Meanwhile, Mini-Me, Pedro's Posse, and all the other bitter ex-management and former airline-strife Lupeeites are calling for all-out war against the goose, starting with full-blown (dramatic music and drum roll please)... the devastating.... My Union Speaks for Me Silent Treatment.



Oh NOOOOO! Well, maybe the fatigue abusers and airplane breakers can help the picketers put us all out of business before we have to listen to this kind of union. At least it will be peaceful and quiet as the silent majority follows the program and watches their careers get flushed down the drain.

Have a happy weekend of silent treatments, extra work from fatigue abusers, and extra airlining to airplanes that aren't really broken.

Honk!

QSG

Lupee is chumming for Lupeeites - protect yourself

Conflict is the Lupee way...

Be patient. Suffering from Lupees can be very confusing. If you really want the truth, use your CrewOps sign-on and visit http://njcrew.netjets.com and check out the correspondence tab.

While you are there, ask yourself, "Did Lupees know what was going to happen before he got there?"

Also, why did he ignore the letter he received On December 9?

Do you think that the only way he knows is the way of conflict?

More truth to come....

Honk!

QSG