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Old 01-26-2012 | 03:48 AM
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Originally Posted by cloudwarrior
I can't speak to his recent actions; but I can share a few items with you about him (Sean Menke) from where he came.

He has worked his way up from the 'ground floor' from a simple csa agent / ramper (where he met his wife - another basic csa agent), all the way to the TOP of the corperate chain to CEO. Starting from the ground floor, and working at most all the levels in between, is something most CEO's have NOT done.

At F9 he was thrown a 'hot potato.' Our previous piece of sh!t ceo Jeff Potter, who sqaundered Millions of dollars, basically dumped the company in his hands, at the last minute. If it wasn't for Sean Menke, we would have been done.

Sean within his Second Week of becoming our Ceo, managed to turn the company around (Leading by example, and taking a 20% pay cut First, weeks before ASKING us to do the same) - leading by example. He positioned us to not only survive, but return stronger, more efficent, and Profitable. Yes, 9 or 10 Strait months of Profitability, During bankrupcy, amazing.

After that, with the new owners, well Menke was on the way out. But it was Him, that lead us through those rough times, it was him in so many ways, that achieved our success. He did get Several Standing Ovations from ALL the F9 employee's present on several occasions in the airport terminal. They are mostly on U-tube - do a search and watch with your own eyes. That doesn't usually happen for a slacker or someone that is disliked.

I challenge you to find a Single F9 pilot that does Not think Very Highly of him. IMHO - you are Very lucky to have him.

You will soon figure out what type of cat, this Mr Menke is. I sincerely hope that you find the same Quality person & leader we did. Give this guy a fair shake - he might actually be worth it.

Imho.
I will no doubt give the man a fair shake... but by no means do I plan on giving him 7% of my already sh tty pay.
Asking 7% from a group that fought 5+ years for new pay rates and then turn around and say we need to honor PT and then rest of the band of fools for what they did... well IMHO is not very stand up.
BUT I will say that he does share information which is not the norm in this industry...
I still dont know if his intensions were good, but by basically telling us that there is a very strong chance Colgan will shutdown atleast gives people a heads up to start looking for other jobs.
In whatever way this plays out 700 furloughs will flood a market that is already pretty dry to begin with... But the coming pilot shortage should help fix that
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