vance- that's a lot of anger for a wn pilot.
again- your a winner now--- but what happens in other industries is that if you have experience and your company changes paths- you look at other paths and can (if you are good and talented) negotiate more responsibility and pay. You can find new "cheese" as the book would say. But b/c of our self-induced seniority system- we don't have that option... "sure buddy, love to have you, bottom of the list at poverty wages and weak or no benefits to start" -- Again-- NSL or no-- i believe that we should not END-LOAD this career so much... That worked when we all could reasonably expect our company to last our career... now... who can be so arrogant? Even you. (though i don't predict it, i've read my history books and seen company cultures change)
My brother has security that comes from his own education, experience, and talent. My education, experience, and talent does not buy me the same thing b/c seniority rewards one thing only: Time at a company....not ability- some deserve that reward- others don't-- and until someone acknowledges that major airline after major airline took OFFENSIVE paycuts to save their pecking order at their airline- i'll keep saying it's a problem. Except SWA, UPS, and FDX- it's offensive to me what the whole lot of you are willing to fly for. But instead of blaming you- i blame this seniority system and how it creates an environment of us BAILING out bad airline after bad airline b/c we can't afford to have our airline go under no matter how much management's performance deserves it. Is that 'capitalist' to keep funding w/ our money and retirement industry management's failures? How long will we do that? Do we need further proof that they will keep taking and cutting pay and benefits until we are willing to let the airline go under?
Loyalty to a company is a funny thing--- w/ the exception of SWA- do you really think there's an airline out there that has any amount of loyalty to you? So, i won't judge you- b/c swa has been a stand up place their entire existence- they, and you-deserve their success- but don't judge me b/c i recognize that virtually every management team not named southwest or fedex has pissed on us all- w/ government's help.
But maybe i shouldn't give all of you a pass. Our seniority system solves more problems than it creates. Maybe the problem is how so many of this and the recently retired failed to think long term- didn't protect scope to the end- and didn't stand strong enough-- maybe i should just blame the 60% of us that are weak and uninvolved to no end.
