RedRum
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- Apr 22, 2008
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Maybe if you hear it one more time it will sink in.
There is nothing greedy or self-absorbed about wanting the EXACT SAME career advancement opportunities that you have enjoyed. Nothing more, nothing less. Just the same. Equality is the opposite of greed.
Greed and self absorption lie in taking the EXACT SAME opportunities you've enjoyed from your children for your own personal gain.
Defending your own self-absorption by throwing a guilt trip on the guy that's going to lose his house so you can buy more Viagra is what is indefensible here.
I do wish you the best of luck in your apparent dream of dying at work, though.
Hamburger,
I can sense your frustration. We have the same sort of issues at NWA right now. There has been a lot of class warfare. In my honest opinion, your anger is misdirected. There have been a couple of posts elluding to the fact that this is a management ploy to get the pilots to capitulate. I think they are right.
If the senior guys want to stick around, it is their right to do so. It is federal law and your contract allows it. I just try to look at it as if I was in the senior guys' shoes. I don't want to retire to save someone elses career. If a captain has a second house he is building that is great. He is trying to live out his dream. I don't think you would expect him/her to put all those dreams on hold so you can have your job. It's just the way it works.
I wish things were different in right now, but this industry is crazy. Personally I have felt that junior NWA pilots were sold down there river and a lot of guys had to pay for that with a five year furlough. I still hold on to the fact that a senior guys should not feel bad for not retiring if it is his/her right to do so. A lot of these senior folks have never had their job in jeopardy...that is not their fault.
Just my opinion.