Will they get it right this time?

Bid lines are scheduled to be previewed next week; will our wonderful management team fall flat on their faces once again?

It should not be that hard to figure out a schedule, just look at how many people are shifted around each and every day and to where.

That part may be beyond the capabilities of our mental midgets. We seem to have collected all the available village idiots and made them an offer that they could not refuse. At some point, after so many failed attempts to get it right, the axe should fall. But, as we all know, that rarely happens to the chosen ones.

Let's try something new! How about using a suggestion box in the EAC for our opinions and helpful suggestions? Let's ask the boots on the ground for some help, after all, we are the ones who have to live through the shortcomings and shortsightedness. This way you could shift the blame on us, because you will never give us any credit for anything good that happens around here.

As usual, we will be judging your efforts and voicing our opinions. Prove to us that our criticism is unwarranted and that you can learn from your mistakes.

Iron Man speaketh

Gerardo Sanchez called a meeting with the baggage supervisors the other day.  Terence Cunningham was in attendance as well. A number of issues were discussed. And all reports have indicated that Sanchez was well behaved. Perhaps he's finally learned his lesson? Nah, not a chance. Just recently people witnessed him going on a tirade against someone in one of the bag rooms. So much for new beginnings.

You have to be curious. Why does management continue to keep this buffoon around? He's incompetent. He is a hot head. And my God, have you ever had to sit through one of his superfluous talks where he goes on and on with these mindless metaphors? Hopefully you haven't, because we've heard that can be highly mind numbing as well as just bizarre. He has certainly done enough over the years to warrant terminating him.

So why do they keep him around? Is it because he deals with baggage and all the other managers don't want to touch baggage? Who knows?

What we do know is that he is outright despised by many working in and around management. And we certainly know that the work force abhors the man. Then again, that latter part is a resume enhancer at Covenant Aviation Security.

Curtis Boggs situation resolved...

Well, only time will tell. We can tell you this: after the incident the TSO involved was to have a meeting with Anthony Nguyen and Curtis Boggs. Nguyen pulled the typical stall tactic of trying to claim he was too busy to attend, so he palmed it off on one of the floor supervisors.

Apparently Curtis Boggs was reprimanded by an STSO from the SCC as well as Terence Cunningham before this meeting even took place. At the meeting Curtis Boggs said to the TSO he abused, "I would like to apologize over the phone, but since I'm not that kind of person, here I am and I wanna apologize personally. I wanna apologize for yelling at you."

The floor supervisor who mediated the meeting gave Curtis Boggs a verbal and written warning and it is going on file. The TSO received a copy of the incident report as well.

The TSO feels vindicated and got what they wanted and all we can say is congratulations!

Hopefully we all can learn from this TSO. Do not allow superiors to abuse you. You do not have to take it. If it happens, be professional and not make a scene. Be proactive and take the necessary actions to resolve it to your satisfaction. We're all people and we all make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes need to be resolved formally and other times not so.

Rebid problems already?

Early reports are coming in saying that there are already problems with the rebid (big surprise, huh?). Apparently the SCC was begging people to do overtime on Saturday and Sunday. And apparently some of the supervisors from the SCC were already lamenting this rebid. It's also been reported that pier B is short everyday.

We can't say that we're really surprised. It doesn't seem as though they'll ever get this whole scheduling thing figured out. Once again, it's time for management to tell us what exactly they have to do in order to get fired. Here at Security First @ SFO are in agreement with others in stating that it is time for the higher ups to clean house. The first on the chopping block needs to be Donnie Filbert followed by Terence Cunningham.

New Newsletter from the Union

We have to give our kudos to the Union for calling out Covenant managers. First it was Larry "The Hitman" Perkins, now it's Terence "Stone Cold" Cunningham. For those that don't know, Cunningham is the manager in charge of scheduling. He's Covenant's "idiot savant," strong emphasis on the idiot part.

The next person Security First @ SFO would like to take on is Donnie Filbert. But we guess there's time for that since his job is safe.

Look for the newsletter in your breakrooms. I will post pics of it when I get to a computer.

UPDATE:

Here are the pics: