You scrub my back. I'll scrub yours.....and so on and so....
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Not exactly "rubbing backs" it's more about delegating human capital that has been successful at other organizations. Perhaps that concept doesn't exist in the seniority based unionist ideology.
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Ideology or theology? . . . The unions haven't had a new idea in 100 years. PhatDon can't reach his shoe laces much less come up with a plan to help AMTs get a contract.
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Oh please....The GOOD OLD BOYS CLUB OF BOARDS OF DIRECTORS is the oldest, greediest union there is..
The BOD doesn't have to worry whose boots to lick and worry about getting stuck working midnights with wednesday, thursday off.. No, these captains of industry meet maybe once a month and determine the fate of everyone beneath them.
Yea Roger Staubach.....what a contribution he made to the business world...
And besides...it's SCRUBBING, not rubbing.... But hey what ever turns you frat boys on.
eolesen
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Hopeful, you moght want to look a little closer at how succesful Staubach was in commercial real estate. His company is now global.
Meanwhile, I think all Troy Aikman owns is a car dealership in southwest Ft. Worth...
Staubach's reputation in Dallas goes far beyond the football field.
Meanwhile, I think all Troy Aikman owns is a car dealership in southwest Ft. Worth...
Staubach's reputation in Dallas goes far beyond the football field.
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He is doing his best to get us a contract one that benefits the company that is just ask the people that call DWH home.
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OOOH......WHHOOOOOPPPPPPDIIIDOOOOOOO... Commericial reals estate and a car dealership...wowweeeeeeeeeee.....
That's like running General Electric.....wow
This is a frequent complaint of yours; I'm curious who you would name to the board of directors if not successful business executives?
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My complaint is these asswipes shouldve canned Arpey a long time ago....Instead they sit on the boards of other companies and give the CEO's more than ample compensation time and time again...
They wash each others back and you can't deny that fact.
I don't recall the BOD asking for Carty's head when he got caught taking care of his executive team while demanding billions from employees.
If i remember correctly, they stood silent.... I guess Roger Staubach was too busy playing with his commercial real estate like a monopoly board to have any opinions on it.
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I'm not so sure Arpey would be considered a "successful business executive". Unless of course you go by bonus and compensation.
eolesen
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Were you sitting in the board room? Do you know that they stood silent? Or is it possible that Don just quit out of guilt?...
From firsthand experience, Carty's ego was the second or third biggest one I ever encountered at AMR (the other two are still there, and no, Arpey isn't one of them). The guy had a driver because he was too good to drive himself to work. He was too good to go to the cafeteria to get his own lunch so he sent his secretary. Daily. He even changed the travel policy so Donny Jr. could ride in F on his passes.
There's no way I could see someone that out of touch leaving on his own. Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
Maybe Arpey is doing what the board wants. Hey, the company is 30% smaller but this year they are on track to bring in $6 billion more than they did when they were much bigger, and to top it off he managed to make all that money disappear before the employees could even get a look at it! All that money went somewhere, and it didn't go to us. Somebody out there besides the oil companies is very happy with the way airlines are being run!
Let's face it, the airlines are heavily dependent on labor yet now labor gets a smaller slice of the pie than ever before, that means the other guys get a bigger slice. The only way they could pull this off is by keeping the airline in a permanent state of crisis, this way the employees don't look behind the curtain and see all that money being siphoned away
Eight years on the brink of bankruptcy, soaring revenues despite huge reductions in manpower and capacity, record breaking orders for new aircraft and a workforce that's willing to settle for "fair" contracts instead of industry leading.
Arpey has done a fantastic job!
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The board wasn't clamoring for his head simply because they were the ones that directed the dumb SOB to do the deed.
No CEO makes a unilateral move of that magnitude without prior approval from his bosses. If he had, he'd have been gone long before all the crap came down.
There are volumes more to that story.
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Your right Bob! AMR should have fired Arpey and and replaced him with a brutal cost cutter like they had a CO. You know the ones Brenneman and Bethune. What was one of the first things they did? Right after dumping the Airbus orders they outsourced almost all overhaul. DEN, LAX, and HOU gutted. AMTs literally escorted off the premises like criminals with their rollaways. One of the ex-Cons I spoke to from LAX said he came to work and was escorted out by security guards.
Call Arpey and Reding inept for sticking with in-house maintenance over the objections of the investors and analysts? Yeah, your right. Arpey and Reding, what a bunch of schmucks! They should have been like UA, US, America West, and NW Senior Execs and lined dumped M&E in BK and lined their pockets with some nice retention bonus money. I betcha' ex-UA CEO Tilton enjoyed his retention bonus $Ms while he waited for his next gig over at JP Morgan. Same story with those other CEOs. What a fool Arpey and Reding are by not following them in to BK court. They could have lined their pockets at our expense.
