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Since it's unlikely I'll run across you on the road any time soon for that 3 beer conversation G4Dude, this is for you.
You asked a little while ago what's so bad about NetJets management in general and our CEO in particular. Well, let's review, shall we?
Since his ascension to CEO in the wake of the scandal-plagued departure of the last one, our boy wonder lawyer has:
Driven two previously non-union employee groups to organize and demand a collective bargaining agreement (resulting in distracted management, negotiation expenses, lost productivity, and angry, frustrated employees);
Declined to extend the existing pilot collective bargaining agreement for 3 years (resulting in distracted management, negotiation expenses, lost productivity, and angry, frustrated employees);
Destroyed long-standing relationships with original equipment manufacturers, maintenance vendors, and fuel and services providers (resulting in higher costs, lost aircraft productivity, flight delays, and angry, frustrated vendors);
Decimated internal infrastructure including maintenance control, owner services, dispatch, and crew services (resulting in disasterous service failures, hundreds of apology letters to customers, and angry, frustrated owners and card-holders);
Botched negotiations with a major fuel vendor so badly that we pay RETAIL at our number 1 hub--the one with a NETJETS sign on the building (resulting in substantially higher fuel costs, safety-compromising fuel tankering releases, and angry, frustrated FBO employees);
Lost a major court case with a different fuel vendor regarding volume discounts (resulting in more of the same....);
Embarrassed every single employee on the property repeatedly with laughable public statements and a totally clueless understanding of our industry, safety standards, and financial realities (IBID....);
Commoditized a premier, luxury service to the general aviation equivalent of a bottom-feeding, passenger-abusing discount airline (need I type it again?);
And finally, jeopardized the future of a once-proud organization with short-sighted, insulting, and ultimately counter-productive negotiating demands that ignore the realities of the industry, the business model, and human nature.
I KNOW that others will add items that I have forgotten to this list.
By any objective, intellectually honest evaluation, he is a complete failure. In almost any other industry, he would have been fired by now. Unless and until he is replaced, NetJets is truly at long-term risk as a viable business entity. The more WE can do as pilots to help Omaha realize the EPIC FAILURE of our CEO and hasten his departure, the better.
That is why you and many of our colleagues (former NJI and NJA alike) need to exhibit at least SOME support for the renewed efforts of the Association.
You asked a little while ago what's so bad about NetJets management in general and our CEO in particular. Well, let's review, shall we?
Since his ascension to CEO in the wake of the scandal-plagued departure of the last one, our boy wonder lawyer has:
Driven two previously non-union employee groups to organize and demand a collective bargaining agreement (resulting in distracted management, negotiation expenses, lost productivity, and angry, frustrated employees);
Declined to extend the existing pilot collective bargaining agreement for 3 years (resulting in distracted management, negotiation expenses, lost productivity, and angry, frustrated employees);
Destroyed long-standing relationships with original equipment manufacturers, maintenance vendors, and fuel and services providers (resulting in higher costs, lost aircraft productivity, flight delays, and angry, frustrated vendors);
Decimated internal infrastructure including maintenance control, owner services, dispatch, and crew services (resulting in disasterous service failures, hundreds of apology letters to customers, and angry, frustrated owners and card-holders);
Botched negotiations with a major fuel vendor so badly that we pay RETAIL at our number 1 hub--the one with a NETJETS sign on the building (resulting in substantially higher fuel costs, safety-compromising fuel tankering releases, and angry, frustrated FBO employees);
Lost a major court case with a different fuel vendor regarding volume discounts (resulting in more of the same....);
Embarrassed every single employee on the property repeatedly with laughable public statements and a totally clueless understanding of our industry, safety standards, and financial realities (IBID....);
Commoditized a premier, luxury service to the general aviation equivalent of a bottom-feeding, passenger-abusing discount airline (need I type it again?);
And finally, jeopardized the future of a once-proud organization with short-sighted, insulting, and ultimately counter-productive negotiating demands that ignore the realities of the industry, the business model, and human nature.
I KNOW that others will add items that I have forgotten to this list.
By any objective, intellectually honest evaluation, he is a complete failure. In almost any other industry, he would have been fired by now. Unless and until he is replaced, NetJets is truly at long-term risk as a viable business entity. The more WE can do as pilots to help Omaha realize the EPIC FAILURE of our CEO and hasten his departure, the better.
That is why you and many of our colleagues (former NJI and NJA alike) need to exhibit at least SOME support for the renewed efforts of the Association.
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