All 135 pilots should read.

[kingairyahoo]

...how about a "woo-hoo", will that suffice?

 

[Corona]

Oh! That’s right there [aren't?] any pax airlines represented by the IBT.

Actually, Horizon Airlines is represented by the Teamsters. Ask any Horizon pilot what they think of them...

C

 

[h25b]

Actually, Horizon Airlines is represented by the Teamsters. Ask any Horizon pilot what they think of them...

C

Chautauqua is a Teamsters' shop ...

 

[johnny taliban]

you will not hired by any trucking company represented by the IBT.

I guess I will not need the number to that truck driving school, truck masters I think its called.

 

[G100driver]

Gern .... holy crap man, you need to get out on the road or find some more contract work.

 

[gern_blanston]

Gern .... holy crap man, you need to get out on the road or find some more contract work.

Yeah, except I'm kind of a lazy S.O.B.

 

[h25b]

You are right on the money, Timskeeper.
Chup? Yosemite? You've gotta' remember that the company can be run however management wants. Have you ever run a business? The company owes you nothing... Not a job, not anything over minimum wage, not a retirement plan, not MLK Day off, nothing. It's their choice how to treat their employees, and it's your choice whether to work there, strike there, or run screaming into the street.
If you work for a good organization, they take good care of you. If you don't, you get the shaft. I can't figger out why people can't figger that out.
If going on strike gets you another $30,000 a year, I guess that's great, but in the current economic climate, a lot of folks with jobs have decided to hunker down and see what happens.
[Up on the soapbox for a rant]
But I am certainly not gonna' tell the company I do contract charter work for to stuff it if they call me to take a trip. My job description as father/husband clearly states that I need to take care of my family. That's what it's all about for me. I must do this, not some union, my 'pilot brothers', the companies I work for, or 'the state' (nod to my communist friends.) Getting fired from my part-time job by refusing to take trips this summer would get me called before the review board at the home office, if you know what I mean, because it would take a bite out of the budget at my very old-fashioned, nuclear, mom-stays-at-home-with-the-kids household.
I quit a couple of jobs to get where I'm at. I was searching and saw opportunity. In fact, I'm still searching. A smart pilot always is. It seems to me (and many other non-union, non-frax pilots) that some of the frax pilots that I bump into on the road might have better spent their excess energy over the last 2 years looking for a different job rather than b!tch!ng about the one that they currently hate.
[/Off of soapbox, end of rant]

Simply an outstanding post, so much so I have edited my signature line.

P.S. - I operate out of one of those "very-old-fashioned, nuclear, mom-stays-at-home-with-the-kids households" as well... Very respectable and under-appreciated family lifestyle these days.

 

[gern_blanston]

P.S. - I operate out of one of those "very-old-fashioned, nuclear, mom-stays-at-home-with-the-kids households" as well... Very respectable and under-appreciated family lifestyle these days.

Pretty rare these days. It's amazing how many people look at you like you're from another planet when you mention it. Go figger.

 

[h25b]

Pretty rare these days. It's amazing how many people look at you like you're from another planet when you mention it. Go figger.

I get the same response as well. I hear, "how can you afford it?" a lot... Answer is putting the kids in some day care would cost so much it's not worth the wife working. Nothing against those who do, but I couldn't stand the thought of my kids in one of these places. Maybe we're neurotic ... My kids are my biggest investment... I'm willing to die broke as long as I feel like their heads will be screwed on straight as adults.

 

[gern_blanston]

Scary, H25B. I wonder if I had a twin and we were separated at birth, because you sound a lot like me! I guess if you're ever in the great Pacific Northwest, I'll have to buy you a root beer.


-ps- No guessing about it... I AM neurotic

 

[h25b]

Scary, H25B. I wonder if I had a twin and we were separated at birth, because you sound a lot like me! I guess if you're ever in the great Pacific Northwest, I'll have to buy you a root beer.


-ps- No guessing about it... I AM neurotic

You wouldn't happen to be a 6'3", terribly handsome, although somewhat balding man of extraordinary intellect would you ??? Could be worth a DNA swab to figure this one out.

 

[gern_blanston]

Nope. Short, scrawny, not too bright. Sorry.

 

[FracCapt]

You wouldn't happen to be a 6'3", terribly handsome, although somewhat balding man of extraordinary intellect would you ??? Could be worth a DNA swap to figure this one out.

Nope. Short, scrawny, not too bright. Sorry.

Sounds like the movie Twins!

 

[h25b]

Sounds like the movie Twins!

LMAO...

 

[gern_blanston]

That is pretty funny. LOL.

 

[XTW]

I get the same response as well. I hear, "how can you afford it?" a lot... Answer is putting the kids in some day care would cost so much it's not worth the wife working. Nothing against those who do, but I couldn't stand the thought of my kids in one of these places. Maybe we're neurotic ... My kids are my biggest investment... I'm willing to die broke as long as I feel like their heads will be screwed on straight as adults.

Ditto! I'd rather not have someone else raising my kids. When they are grown and have issues, I'd rather it be "our" fault.


X

 

[Clutch_Cargo]

I get the same response as well. I hear, "how can you afford it?" a lot... Answer is putting the kids in some day care would cost so much it's not worth the wife working. Nothing against those who do, but I couldn't stand the thought of my kids in one of these places. Maybe we're neurotic ... My kids are my biggest investment... I'm willing to die broke as long as I feel like their heads will be screwed on straight as adults.

Outstanding! I have no idea who you are but you're alright in my book.

cc

 

[h25b]

Outstanding! I have no idea who you are but you're alright in my book.

cc

You don't happen to have any Lear 31A time do you ???

 

[Clutch_Cargo]

You don't happen to have any Lear 31A time do you ???

h25b,

Check your PM's.

cc

 

[Ace-of-the-Base]

Gern, H25B,

Let me drag you away from the love-fest and add a couple of comments:

It IS refreshing to hear that some of the people on this board have their priorities straight. I’ve been a pilot for many, many years. I’ve seen my kids grow from little nothings to college grads. I worked long hours when they were first born, but I always rushed home when I was done and always tucked them in at night (even if it was 4am and they were fast asleep).

The life of a pilot is a wonderful life. We’re working in the pointy end of a very cool piece of technology. The new generation aint what we were. Now all they care about is how much they can GET out of aviation. I used to care more about what I could GIVE to aviation (and my company and the clients). I still do.

When I was a little lad hanging out at the airport, staring thru the chain link fence and thinking those flight instructors were about the coolest guys in the world, I couldn’t have imagined what I’d be doing today. I am blessed and I know it. Yes I make good money, but that’s not what gets me up every morning (and no Viagra jokes you young punks).

You boys sound O.K. in my book too. I hope there are more like you on this wasteland of a message board.

Ace