Low morale? What are you talking about?!

Reports are coming in that Gerry Berry has been spotted around SFO. One rumor that is going around is that he is here on the behest of TSA to get to the bottom of why morale is so low. This seems possible, but who really knows. God knows, Berry rarely visits the work location of Covenant Aviation Security's multi-million dollar contract. Let's try to get this low morale thing figured out.

Ok, so first we have the TSA meeting that was about low morale before it wasn't about low morale. Oh wait, it was supposed to be about Engage! and then it got cancelled in favor of some non-controversial topic. Then we had Mindy Pengel doing her own investigation of why morale is low. Perhaps it is time to bring out the big gun of Gerry Berry to get to the bottom of this quagmire.

Donnie Filbert has been making the rounds as well. He's been doing Gerardo Sanchez's job since he's being investigated....errr....on jury duty. Filbert has been trying to make nice while he's been doing this by chatting it up with the work force. Hey, that's fine. No problem with that. Except it seems too little, too late.

So why are all these people that are supposedly so much smarter than the rest of us spending all this time trying to figure out this nagging problem? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that their contract wasn't renewed, instead it was extended for eight months. Oh, which just happens to coincide with the opening of Terminal 2, by the way.

Terminal 2 is scheduled to open April 14. The contract extension was announced on August 11. You do the math. Word has been going around that TSA has not been happy with how Covenant Aviation Security has been handling things lately. The eight months seems to be a "get your act together or else" type of thing.

Management is fond of saying, "don't just bring me problems, bring me solutions." Well, we have some solutions to the problem of the low morale. And it's simple. It's time to clean house.

The first that needs to go is Mindy Pengel. Other than being a figure head, what exactly does she do? Yes, she has to deal with TSA and all the bureaucratic BS that goes along with that. Yet, for someone who not only keeps Donnie Filbert, but also publicly praises the incompetence of his tenure, the question the everyone needs to be asking is why is she here?

Which leads us to the next person that needs to go. In the year or so that Donnie Filbert has been in charge, he has clearly demonstrated he is not up to the task. From the fiasco of the itchy uniforms to the completely screwed up spring bid, he has shown to the work force that he not only is incapable of the job, but he also clearly doesn't care since he rarely interacts with the work force.

The next that needs to go is obviously Gerardo Sanchez. Why this man has kept his job for this long is truly a marvel. How many HR investigations does this man get before it's patently clear that he needs to go?

After you get rid of those three, perhaps the others will have the fear of God put into them and will finally get their crap together. If not, well, there's never any lack of room on the chopping block.

There you have it. An analysis of the problem and a solution to it. What more could you ask for?