siucavflight
Back from the forsaken
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- Jul 30, 2003
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So last week sitting in a bar on an overnight in RDU I started talking to the guy next to me. Turns out that he is an MD-80 CA at AA. Told him I am a first year FO at Eagle. He asked me if I minded sharing with him what I made. Told him, and he then went into a speech about how me, and my generation are lowering the bar for everyone in the industry, and we should not accecpt jobs for this low of pay.
I sat there and listened to it, and decided that I would tell him how I really felt. I told him that I was still in school when 9-11 happened, I was still trying to find a job as a flight instructor when the airlines were going bankrupt and they were all taking pay cuts. I told him that if they all had a spine they would not have taken the pay cuts that their employeers forced on them. I am simply stuck working in an environment that is horrible because he and his pilot group were not strong enough to stand up for this profession that I choose to be a part of. I have no choice but to be working at a regional getting underpaid because he and his fellow "old school" pilots did not have the balls to defend this industry.
He did not buy my beer.
I sat there and listened to it, and decided that I would tell him how I really felt. I told him that I was still in school when 9-11 happened, I was still trying to find a job as a flight instructor when the airlines were going bankrupt and they were all taking pay cuts. I told him that if they all had a spine they would not have taken the pay cuts that their employeers forced on them. I am simply stuck working in an environment that is horrible because he and his pilot group were not strong enough to stand up for this profession that I choose to be a part of. I have no choice but to be working at a regional getting underpaid because he and his fellow "old school" pilots did not have the balls to defend this industry.
He did not buy my beer.
