We need to move PBC, LLC formation documents over to a Word doc so we can "track changes". Has anyone ever worked on a document shared by so many people, so many times that you get the elusive color of "Bill Gates' Iris" to appear as the editing color du jour? :D

In other news, I'd like to stake claim to the position of EVP of the Oceania region for PBC, LLC. My territory will include Fiji, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Hawaii, Micronesia, Guam, and up to the Maldives.

My chief responsibilities will involve improving living conditions in these regions through development of essential services. I will accomplish this by leading the search for Miss. Universe contestants to raise awareness to these impoverished islands.

... with sexy results.

Mike. Your post above needs to go into the OMNI thread.;)

I claim Munich, Salzburg, and Bruges as my personal demesne. Any attempts at usurpation of the privileges of the Papal States shall be met with immediate excommunication - a lifetime ban from beer!

I guess I'll have to move into Sales since territories are being staked. I'll take the US West Coast, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Such a wide territory will be traveled smartly by hopefully making only one connection to visit clients and by having multiple sets of golf clubs available should one of them misconnect.

I have a strange feeling that some day, we're all going to miss out on a choice mistake fare, because we're too busy being 'tarded in here. :D

Right. Much more important than work deadlines. :o

You left off one office — Atlanta!

Anyway, in order for me to do my job effectively, I'll need to be able to fly in the highest class of service available to meet with other consultants/employees/deadbeats/degenerates of this organization to conduct training, performance reviews, deliver pay stubs in person, and do other BS HR duties. Of course all of these meetings will occur after hours, at bars, Astros games, Mexican food restaurants, Whataburgers, while flying on mistake fares, Q-Ups, or in obscure aircraft, including, but not limited to NW DC-9s, Saha 707s, and similar aircraft that fall under the general category of "Soviet-era rustbuckets," or other similar venues, to be mutually agreed upon by the VP for HR and the employee(s) involved. There's no requirement that these meetings occur in the consultant's home city, as that would get boring for all involved.

And the sad thing is that I'm seriously interested in this one consulting firm that does hotel and hospitality. I can see this turning into my life.

That is a routine occurence in Brazil, in my experience.

The Box has really jumped the shark.

One time when flying a gas-guzzler is a good thing
 

Last night I flew BTR-MEM-ATL on NW. BTR-MEM was scheduled on a DC-9-50, which was only booked to about 60% full when I did OLCI yesterday morning. However, due to weather in Atlanta, DL canceled two of its BTR-ATL CRJ flights, and, seeing lots of open seats on NW's BTR-MEM flight, filled up the rest of NW's seats. Despite all that, we pushed back from the gate a few minutes early, taxiied out to the end of the runway, and then pulled off to the side. The captain had already advised us that MEM was expecting thunderstorms to hit sometime in the next hour, and that we might be delayed. So I expected the usual "ATC is holding us on the ground here until the storms clear" announcement. Wrong! ATC wasn't holding us. Apparently all of the passengers and bags DL put on the plane had it considerably overweight for takeoff. All of the weight and balance calculations had to be redone by NW and downloaded back to the plane's computers. So we sat in The Penalty Box (hehe) for about 15-20 minutes with engines revved up to burn off extra fuel that the captain had taken on in case we were put into a holding pattern, or diverted, on our way to MEM. When the captain was explaining this to us, he even said "Fortunately this plane burns fuel pretty quickly." :rolleyes: I was seated in 1C, and one of the flight attendants got up and was in the galley, and after that announcement she leaned over and said to me "Yeah because this thing is older than dirt! Here we go wasting another $2000 in gas. And you guys wonder why we're almost bankrupt."

Of course, had we been on a more modern, fuel efficient plane, we might have had to sit there a lot longer to burn off fuel.

Once we did get down to a safe takeoff weight, we used a lot of runway to get airborne, and climbed very slowly. You could tell the plane was still pretty heavy. The DC-9's usual sharp takeoff angle was much more flat this time. But the old bird held together and we made it just fine up to MEM.

How so? :confused:

I bet there was a super-cute cloud of black smoke thanks to that...someone must have thought that BTR was now featuring oldie-time coal locomotive train service too. Maybe someone hoped that an old train would break down, and the resdients of BTR had it look as such.

I drank four Fuels (9%) at Capital City Brewing Company last night. Not my favorite beer or restaurant (terrible food), but a convenient happy hour location.

I claim Brazil, Argentina, Chile, London, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Indonesia. I can also serve as General Counsel, with worldwide responsibilities.