After months and months of searching, the Executive Staff of Covenant Aviation Security at SFO finally found their person. It was difficult to find someone to replace our last Director of Strategic Planning, but they finally succeeded.
Oh silly me! That's right. There never was a "Director of Strategic Planning." Perhaps that's the type of job position that you have to create in order to lure someone back. After all, it's not as though you could terminate one of your untouchable management members. Wait, I guess I shouldn't tell that to Rick Tolentino.
Ok, enough with the teasing. If you don't know already, you're probably wondering just who is this "Director of Strategic Planning." It's none other than...drum roll please.........Jeff Pugh!!! As we have said many times before, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Pugh is already making his presence known by instituting a new punishment...err..rule to our dignified team members that wear the yellow lanyards. Perhaps the termination...dammit...I meant "resignation" of Tolentino, was another way to make his presence known and put a little fear into the other managers. If that is the case, more power to Pugh. God knows these managers with virtual invincibility, need a little bit of fear put into them.
Since the "Director of Strategic Planning" is a member of the executive staff, I guess that means that Pugh usurps Herr Filbert's authority. Now, if Pugh really wants to make his presence known, he could do a lot worse than getting rid of Filbert, Terence Cunningham, Shelley Burrell (ahh, never mind on that one. We all know that will never happen!), Larry Perkins, Russ Mackey, Gerardo Sanchez, Anthony Nguyen, Ryan Yee, Dena Crawford, Allen Morse, Indra Singh, have I forgotten anyone?
Now that Pugh is back, will he be insistent on DFOs? Speaking of DFOs, how do those schedules look for all of you? It kind of sucks knowing that people at checkpoint with less than two years on the job were able to get Fri, Sat, Sun off. I fully admit it was a mistake for any of you guys to stay DFO. Oh well, live and learn. You could always complain to your union rep. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
It should be interesting to see what changes Pugh will make. The big question is what exactly does that title mean? Will he be doing more of the same thing he was doing, prior to his previous departure, except with a fancier title and presumably higher salary? If that is the case, then that raises the next question as to why would they insist on keeping Herr Filbert around? Only time will tell.
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Showing posts with label Rick Tolentino. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Attendance Tracking Discrepancies
It's come to our attention that Covenant does not have the best means of tracking attendance. One TSO in particular has an ongoing issues with being accused of not hand scanning in for a specific day. According to him, he did indeed handscan in for that day. Yet according to the ever reliable equipment, it says he did not. Or did it?
This TSO took it upon himself to go to the EAC to get a printout of his handscans for a select range of dates. And on that particular day it had him scanning in right at the time his shift starts. When he brought this to the attention of Terminal Manager Russell Mackey, Mr. Mackey informed him that the system will indeed say you handscanned in at the time your shift starts if you did not handscan in. I know what you're thinking.
This of course raises a number of issues. One, it's highly dubious as to whether or not the handscan machines are linked directly with our schedules. Two, if that is really the case, then theoretically we could all NOT handscan in and the system would say we've all handscanned in on time. And three, the most important point is that if this REALLY is the case, then how in the hell do they know if we handscanned in???
Really Mr. Mackey? You really think we're going to fall for this? Of course, Covenant does have other means of checking this stuff, it's called the cameras. Their response to that is, "We can't do that for everybody!" We all know that their tracking system makes errors and mistakes. This particular situation is very fishy. My theory is that they realized they made a mistake and instead of just admitting it they are trying to find some weasel way to make it stick with a level 4 performance that lasts 9 months.
One of the good suggestions from the Union Meeting last week was the idea of a progressive form of discipline for not handscanning in. That's great if the person did indeed forget to handscan in. But what about when there is an apparent discrepancy? Hopefully this TSO will be successful in fighting this. Remember guys, we only have 10 business days to file a grievance.
Another issue has arisen with a TSO with levels for tardies. This TSO was told by ATM Rick Tolentino at the end of May that he only had one occurrence for a tardy on record at that time. Since then, he has accumulated another two tardies. Thinking that Mr. Nguyen was going to issue him a level 1, Nguyen instead said it was a level 4. The TSO refused to sign saying that it should only be a level 1 since Tolentino told him he only had one occurrence at the end of May.
Hopefully this will get resolved in the TSO's favor. It should go without saying folks, that it's not wise to play around with the attendance system. It's understandable that we all have lives. But if you've been with Covenant for more than a year, you know they don't play around when it comes to that stuff. So only play the system if you have to. When you're contemplating calling in just because you don't feel like coming in to work, ask yourself this question: Is it more important for me not to go to work for whatever arbitrary reason, or to lose my job and my source of income? Yes, if you or someone close in your family is sick or you need to attend some family get together or whatever, sure that's your priority. But if you don't play the system often like some do, when those situations come up, you won't have to worry about getting into pickles like the situation above.
Ok, enough of the soap box preaching. Have a great day guys! Stay safe and 100% SOP ALL THE TIME!
This TSO took it upon himself to go to the EAC to get a printout of his handscans for a select range of dates. And on that particular day it had him scanning in right at the time his shift starts. When he brought this to the attention of Terminal Manager Russell Mackey, Mr. Mackey informed him that the system will indeed say you handscanned in at the time your shift starts if you did not handscan in. I know what you're thinking.
This of course raises a number of issues. One, it's highly dubious as to whether or not the handscan machines are linked directly with our schedules. Two, if that is really the case, then theoretically we could all NOT handscan in and the system would say we've all handscanned in on time. And three, the most important point is that if this REALLY is the case, then how in the hell do they know if we handscanned in???
Really Mr. Mackey? You really think we're going to fall for this? Of course, Covenant does have other means of checking this stuff, it's called the cameras. Their response to that is, "We can't do that for everybody!" We all know that their tracking system makes errors and mistakes. This particular situation is very fishy. My theory is that they realized they made a mistake and instead of just admitting it they are trying to find some weasel way to make it stick with a level 4 performance that lasts 9 months.
One of the good suggestions from the Union Meeting last week was the idea of a progressive form of discipline for not handscanning in. That's great if the person did indeed forget to handscan in. But what about when there is an apparent discrepancy? Hopefully this TSO will be successful in fighting this. Remember guys, we only have 10 business days to file a grievance.
Another issue has arisen with a TSO with levels for tardies. This TSO was told by ATM Rick Tolentino at the end of May that he only had one occurrence for a tardy on record at that time. Since then, he has accumulated another two tardies. Thinking that Mr. Nguyen was going to issue him a level 1, Nguyen instead said it was a level 4. The TSO refused to sign saying that it should only be a level 1 since Tolentino told him he only had one occurrence at the end of May.
Hopefully this will get resolved in the TSO's favor. It should go without saying folks, that it's not wise to play around with the attendance system. It's understandable that we all have lives. But if you've been with Covenant for more than a year, you know they don't play around when it comes to that stuff. So only play the system if you have to. When you're contemplating calling in just because you don't feel like coming in to work, ask yourself this question: Is it more important for me not to go to work for whatever arbitrary reason, or to lose my job and my source of income? Yes, if you or someone close in your family is sick or you need to attend some family get together or whatever, sure that's your priority. But if you don't play the system often like some do, when those situations come up, you won't have to worry about getting into pickles like the situation above.
Ok, enough of the soap box preaching. Have a great day guys! Stay safe and 100% SOP ALL THE TIME!
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