buscap
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Please people!!
Let's stop blowing smoke up our respective poop shoots. Each of us are employees of seperate companies; companies which compete against against one another, quite often under the same quasi brand, with Delta Connection being an extreme and obvious example.
We are all fighting for our piece of whatever pie is out there, with the presently lame hope of getting on with an airline which pays more and perhaps has a better quality of life. It's that simple. There really is no such thing as koom-by-ya and whatever.
The only thing that matters in the end is that sometimes the undercutting and concessionary contracts are just plain stupid. It's not that any of us are being bad people and stabbing our fellow pilots in the back, but jeexe-almighty, we sure are being stupid.
Helping the company gobble up flying by working for less, may seem smart at the time, but the next thing ya know, you're wondering how it's all gonna shake out with some other pilot group's seniority list.
And we all know how ALPA and the Major MECs have contributed to this stupid mess. Our very existence should not have been allowed in the first place. But uneducated brick-heads like me do need a half-butted decent place to work, so thank you baby jesus for those shortsighted guys at Delta mainline twenty years ago!!!!
Now, with all that being said and ALPA's general depravity being established, I would like to submit that one big union, ALPA in this case, is still the last hope we have to effect positive change within our profession. From safety to general professional pilot advocacy, there is simply no alternative.
But, please let's stop the talk about brotherhood and how we shouldn't be stabbing each other in the back. This is a business!!!!
Rant complete.
Let's stop blowing smoke up our respective poop shoots. Each of us are employees of seperate companies; companies which compete against against one another, quite often under the same quasi brand, with Delta Connection being an extreme and obvious example.
We are all fighting for our piece of whatever pie is out there, with the presently lame hope of getting on with an airline which pays more and perhaps has a better quality of life. It's that simple. There really is no such thing as koom-by-ya and whatever.
The only thing that matters in the end is that sometimes the undercutting and concessionary contracts are just plain stupid. It's not that any of us are being bad people and stabbing our fellow pilots in the back, but jeexe-almighty, we sure are being stupid.
Helping the company gobble up flying by working for less, may seem smart at the time, but the next thing ya know, you're wondering how it's all gonna shake out with some other pilot group's seniority list.
And we all know how ALPA and the Major MECs have contributed to this stupid mess. Our very existence should not have been allowed in the first place. But uneducated brick-heads like me do need a half-butted decent place to work, so thank you baby jesus for those shortsighted guys at Delta mainline twenty years ago!!!!
Now, with all that being said and ALPA's general depravity being established, I would like to submit that one big union, ALPA in this case, is still the last hope we have to effect positive change within our profession. From safety to general professional pilot advocacy, there is simply no alternative.
But, please let's stop the talk about brotherhood and how we shouldn't be stabbing each other in the back. This is a business!!!!
Rant complete.
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