The CO ... wantto divide us further.
I'd say it's working as this is your very next sentence:
This is the worse pilot group I have worked with in 20+ years in the biz! Baja.
I'm not the only one seeing the irony here, am I?
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The CO ... wantto divide us further.
This is the worse pilot group I have worked with in 20+ years in the biz! Baja.
I try not to post on these websites very often but this is just driving me nuts. This company is unbelievable. It basically falls on the company to stop these furloughs and they look at the mighty dollar and thats it. I went to the LAX base meeting and asked Gary Beck straight up what this furlough would save the company. 12 million was his answer. I said OK and then I told him that you will have 8 or 9 percent of your pilot group on furlough and are totally pissed off. I mean I will never be the same after this. I told him that I will never do anything for this place again when and if I return and probably the 8 percent won't either. And we are the guys that are going to be here for the next 30 years. I told him to put a price tag on that. No answer. It's clear this management group doesn't understand what an asset happy employees are. So then it falls on the Union to save our jobs. Unfortunately, it sounds like the company wasn't really negotiating this MOU, but when the union comes out and doesn't tell this pilot group to vote YES for this thing? And the SEA union reps vote no for it? Really? Thanks guys. So now it falls to the my peers and the pilot group to save our jobs. And all I hear is a bunch of people that haven't really read this thing and are uneducated about it. Very frustrating. Atleast the Union has tried to help a little bit this week about educating everybody and I hope everyone does the right thing. It sucks the company has done this to us, but I hope you can look beyond that and think about all the families out on the street with no hopes of finding a job. It would be a different story if the economy was in a different place right now. But I find it a little hard to feel bad for senior people crying about second step, VSA and having to wait a week longer to get their schedule when you have families falling apart over this. I guess the first question I'll be asking the next time I fly with someone is how they voted for the MOU.
Well, according to many pilots senior to me, being furloughed is a normal part of being an airline pilot. I and my family should sacrifice one for the team. Why should feeding my family get in the way of a senior pilot doing VSA for premium time. Us bottom dwellers should suck it up.
How many are over age 60 and shouldn't still be here anyway?
Year guys turned 60:
2007: 1
2008: 18
2009: 31
That equals 50! Furlough over.