Sounding a little soft there Lear,
I hold you to a higher degree of understanding. You know that when it's all said and done, there's no room for feelings when dealing with most management teams. It's about the bottom line. It's all about the money. It's only a business to them.
They will do whatever is legally at their disposal to protect that bottom line, period. Pilots are nothing but a commodity/liability in their views. A part of the business that needs to be controlled to some degree in order to keep its costs down.
As such, we as pilots need to treat this situation the same way they do. As a business and about our bottom lines. No feelings, simply shrewd and smart legal tactics to accomplish our goals. Up to and including a strike if necessary. That's the only language they understand because that's the only way we affect their bottom lines.
Sorry Lear, couldn't help it....apologies in advance.
You didn't offend me, no worries, buddy.
I understand that it's all a business decision to them, but it's a POOR business decision, in the LONG RUN, to so badly alienate your pilot base that, when the dust settles, it'll take YEARS to win back their good will, and some will NEVER forget it, aka the 8 and counting contract hostages, their families, and their friends.
And yeah, I'm feeling a little beat up. It'll be almost 3 YEARS before I get through the arbitration process with a decision, and they have already admitted to the Georgia Worker's Compensation courts that their basis for terminating me was incorrect, have no reason to hold me out, but *STILL* refuse to reinstate me, and won't give a reason why, even after I served them certified mail with two letters, one requesting my record cleared of the termination letter they know is false per the PRIA of 1996 (it's illegal to maintain a known false document in a PRIA file), and one directly to Fornaro himself politely but firmly requesting my job back; almost like they're DELIBERATELY provoking me to sue them by leaving me no alternative.
After everything that's happened as a result of their actions, you can bet I'd like nothing more than to have a less hostile management group, come to work, do my job, collect a paycheck worthy of my time, and GO HOME.
I know that the only way to get that kind of PROFESSIONAL treatment is to fight for it but, call me silly, after watching other airlines that aren't NEARLY this militant with their employees, I know there's a better way of doing business.
Oh, and by the way, just so you know I haven't gone COMPLETELY soft, here's the other part of that quote I wrote above:
Patiently waiting for the nuclear offensive option to begin... ok, not so patiently.
