Gangwal now on the B.O.D.
07-15-2024, 03:52 PM
#42
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,803
I learned about Force Majeur from Rakesh Gangwal.
It was a term I had never heard of before as a third year FO at US Airways. It happened the week following 9/11 when Gangwal told employees (and the rest of the world) that “9/11 had opened certain doors that had not otherwise been available”.
He was speaking of the force majeur language in the pilot CBA. Obviously furlough protection was the first to fall. But it was followed by minimum Captain positions, minimum fleet count, and minimum block hours. All together allowing he and his Sith Lord Wolf to drastically shrink the airline. I had 1,149 people below me - and I was gone by March of 2002. They continued to furlough another thousand or more after that. We remained on furlough for seven years - unless you count the B scale MidAtlantic airlines operation, or Jets4Jobs…
Gangwal was only mentioned tangentially in “Hard Landings” due to his relationship to Wolf. But make no mistake, that apprenticeship made him no less a threat to organized labor than Wolf, Lorenzo, Icahn and the rest of their ilk.
It was a term I had never heard of before as a third year FO at US Airways. It happened the week following 9/11 when Gangwal told employees (and the rest of the world) that “9/11 had opened certain doors that had not otherwise been available”.
He was speaking of the force majeur language in the pilot CBA. Obviously furlough protection was the first to fall. But it was followed by minimum Captain positions, minimum fleet count, and minimum block hours. All together allowing he and his Sith Lord Wolf to drastically shrink the airline. I had 1,149 people below me - and I was gone by March of 2002. They continued to furlough another thousand or more after that. We remained on furlough for seven years - unless you count the B scale MidAtlantic airlines operation, or Jets4Jobs…
Gangwal was only mentioned tangentially in “Hard Landings” due to his relationship to Wolf. But make no mistake, that apprenticeship made him no less a threat to organized labor than Wolf, Lorenzo, Icahn and the rest of their ilk.
07-16-2024, 01:26 PM
#43
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2017
Position: 737 FO
Posts: 985
I learned about Force Majeur from Rakesh Gangwal.
It was a term I had never heard of before as a third year FO at US Airways. It happened the week following 9/11 when Gangwal told employees (and the rest of the world) that “9/11 had opened certain doors that had not otherwise been available”.
He was speaking of the force majeur language in the pilot CBA. Obviously furlough protection was the first to fall. But it was followed by minimum Captain positions, minimum fleet count, and minimum block hours. All together allowing he and his Sith Lord Wolf to drastically shrink the airline. I had 1,149 people below me - and I was gone by March of 2002. They continued to furlough another thousand or more after that. We remained on furlough for seven years - unless you count the B scale MidAtlantic airlines operation, or Jets4Jobs…
Gangwal was only mentioned tangentially in “Hard Landings” due to his relationship to Wolf. But make no mistake, that apprenticeship made him no less a threat to organized labor than Wolf, Lorenzo, Icahn and the rest of their ilk.
It was a term I had never heard of before as a third year FO at US Airways. It happened the week following 9/11 when Gangwal told employees (and the rest of the world) that “9/11 had opened certain doors that had not otherwise been available”.
He was speaking of the force majeur language in the pilot CBA. Obviously furlough protection was the first to fall. But it was followed by minimum Captain positions, minimum fleet count, and minimum block hours. All together allowing he and his Sith Lord Wolf to drastically shrink the airline. I had 1,149 people below me - and I was gone by March of 2002. They continued to furlough another thousand or more after that. We remained on furlough for seven years - unless you count the B scale MidAtlantic airlines operation, or Jets4Jobs…
Gangwal was only mentioned tangentially in “Hard Landings” due to his relationship to Wolf. But make no mistake, that apprenticeship made him no less a threat to organized labor than Wolf, Lorenzo, Icahn and the rest of their ilk.
The enemy of these kind of people aren’t my friends, but it’s hard not to root against our current leadership and hope they get their comeuppance and walking papers. Be gone!
The HBS case study of how to destroy a workforce to the point that they actually hope for bad things to happen to company leadership by outside actors will be an epic.
07-17-2024, 07:25 AM
#44
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Joined APC: Feb 2008
Position: FIRE ALPA
Posts: 3,097
These guys need new underwear just reading parts of Project2025. It'd be like them finding Willy Wonka's golden ticket.
