Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, has just fired its chief pilot following an internal disciplinary hearing. My gosh, this guy sounds awful…
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He spent 28 years at the company, and this behavior had to have been widely known and overlooked before he was promoted to Chief Pilot. Most likely a situation where HR only acted when they were given enough indisputable evidence and understood the enormous liability he created.
Off topic but I'm curious as to why you have a "bottom line" paragraph? We just read your post and now you re-write it again in summary form?
Is this for those that have a hard time comprehending what they are reading? 😉
Thanks
It's for someone who doesn't have the time to read the whole page and just wanted to read the gist of it all. For example, for me, I'd read the full article if it's about diversion, or other aircraft technical issues, but I'd totally skip and go straight for the summary for aircraft purchase orders, hotel loyalty benefits sack (since I don't do hotel loyalty program)
Could also have been that his new position gave him information and opportunites that his previous positions did not. Awful.
That's what they want you to believe in the propaganda.
The truth is, it's to add word count to manipulate Google into thinking a page have more valuable content and giving it a better search ranking.
It's inappropriate to send these kinds of texts for harassments.
But it's okay to send advanced weapons to kill people in a proxy war.
All the things you can get away in a position of power.
I'm always amazed at the stupidity of people. Great that he got fired! In this day and age how in the world can anyone be so stupid?! Imagine how bad it is when these kind of jerks have no fear of anything happening to them?!
Kudos to Ryanair for clearly communicating to employees that he was fired and why. I've seen several terminations, including for sexual harassment, at several employers, and they were all announced in bland terms that left everyone thinking that the perp must have got away with it.
@Eddie, that’s not the case at all.
More importantly, however (IMO), is that the “Bottom Line” is basically a cut and paste from earlier in the post. A summation would work (better) if it is written well.
How are men supposed to find and sleep with people a fraction of their age anymore if they aren't allowed to use their position to coerce them?
What? You expect men to be able to attract women just based on their personality?
Point...missed!
Did you know that this piece is not about advanced weapons and/or killing people in a proxy war?
Try reading it again.
Go on! You can do it!
Thank you for your strong, vivid language. I'll be writing about this on The Landing, my Substack dedicated specifically to giving a voice and a platform to women in the U.S. airline industry who are subjected to the worst xesual violence on a routine basis and are punished, ignored and retaliated against if they dare speak up. When I googled the RyanAir story, I scrolled through all the usual euphemisms and dry language that came up, like they're writing about a new brand of toaster---and then i came upon your story. BRAVO. This is how it gets better: changing how we talk about this and normalizing believing victims.
Guarantee he's been behaving this way most of his life not just career. This is just what we know. Who knows how many women he has harassed over the decades. He deserves a cell mate named Bubba to show him what he did to other women.
@Eskimo Can't both be true? That it serves a useful purpose for some readers, and gives a format and consistency to the posts, and is engineered for SEO, because what successful website doesn't want to be?
Lol after years and years of abusive behaviour. I mean he did not started yesterday. It was like that before and it was known. But now they have no option but to fire. But before management was as guilty as him.
not sure if we can add links but here's the story where I quoted you. Many thanks.
-Sara https://sarahammel.substack.com/p/ryanair-pervert-fired-why-wont-us
That's why politicians keep trying to change electoral maps in order to win. They can't just win based on good performance for us little people who elected them. Me thinks there is a trend here.
Kudos to Ryanair
Everybody is entitled to a safe work area,
Is the ex-employee going to collect "UNEMPLOYMENT"benefits?
“We regret to inform you…” why not leave out “regret” and just say “we inform you that we’re firing (this guy).”
How did he think this was alright and did he actually think these young pilots wouldn’t say something?
Sorry Murray, but you did this to yourself.
I believe there is no room in the airline business for such behavior by senior staff. Anyone acting like this should be reported right away and brought up to upper management. Female staff on any level should report any type of contact like this to their supervisors right away.
Maybe these women should do an E. Jean Carroll and sue his butt for sexual harrassment.
When you have an ego that (big), they all think they’re invincible. Some of those Pilots will also think, “hey, I’m doing the female junior pilots a favor”.