Andy...You can debate the issues all you want...but I've never heard UF personally deride you, call you names, or wish ill upon you. He debates the issues staying above the belt, and conducts himself as a gentleman on this board IMO. If you're furloughed, he's not the one whose kept you out of a job (he's been in his 50's throughout this exchange)...it's your management that's made some pretty big missteps...and your union is not without blame in this either. You're the one who's sounding like a pompous idiot.
While UF appears to be a class act, you and FD appear to be in class envy....if not class idiots.
Prussian, the only difference between my insults and UF's insults is that I cut through the BS and post them straight up. No subtlties. UF, on the other hand, posts flamebait. You think that flamebait is honorable? Wow, I guess if I post negative statements about old geezers in general rather than specific, I too will be a gentleman.
(pause to allow our senior pilots to run and change their Depends undergarments).
None of us are irreplacable. Not you, not me, not the great UF. And our replacements will do the job at least as well as we did.
As for entirely blaming management for my extended furlough, that's BS. I blame radical muslims first. Management has some blame, but so do the pilots who remained on property at UAL. The pilots opted to gut the work rules so that UAL now needs ~20% less pilots to fly the same block hours. And I won't even try to assess how much longer was added to my furlough due to the 70 seat giveaway. There's plenty of blame to go around for my length of furlough; management isn't the only culprit.
I've barely posted on here since the elections so as not to rub it into the faces of Klako and UF. The simple fact is that the rule is NOT going to change any time soon, no matter how much you or they wish that it does.
To push for this change while so many pilots are on furlough is truly dishonorable. If you consider that to be an act of a gentleman, your moral compass is askew.