Are you addicted to the koolaid at FLOPS?

[FR8DOG777]

Are you addicted to koolaid?
Do you find yourself saying we can do this for the company?
Are you happy with the way management is treating you?
Do you routinely go the extra mile for the company?
Do you answer your phone prior to duty on time?
Do you do overtime?
Do you carry maintenance items illegally for the company?
Do you find yourself tired and take the trip anyway?
Do you find yourself sick and still fly?
Do you rush because you think you need to get the trip off on time?
Are you worried the company might have to charter a trip if you don't do it?

If you answer yes to any one of these questions you might just be addicted to the company koolaid. I can help. Just call this number 1-866-505-1108.
You should also go immediately to www.ibt1108.org. Register on the website and print off an application form and send it in now. With our help we can get your nasty addiction under control, but you are going to have to help yourself first.

Send in your dues. Together with the IBT1108 we will find a cure for MS. (quote stolen from another board. MS=Mike Shiatfinger)

 

[TurboHonda]

Is there a support group?

I recognize all of the symptoms you just listed. Not in myself, but in some of my friends and pilots that I fly with. Their refusal to recognize their problem is taking its toll on people like me, which care about them and want to see them seek help. I know it’s probably some kind of normal affliction, but I still keep coming back to the old belief that it’s a moral weakness. There was a time that I respected them and looked up to them, but now I find it harder and harder just to be around them. When the whole world can see black and white, they seem to cling to the gray. I don’t want to give up on them, but at some point I feel like I just have to go on without them.

 

[DO-82 driver]

As long as people are content with drinking the Company provide Kool-Aid, you will never be able to afford to buy your OWN Champaign!!!!!

Hang tough guys......YOU WILL MAKE HISTORY!!!!!!!!!​

 

[FR8DOG777]

I recognize all of the symptoms you just listed. Not in myself, but in some of my friends and pilots that I fly with. Their refusal to recognize their problem is taking its toll on people like me, which care about them and want to see them seek help. I know it’s probably some kind of normal affliction, but I still keep coming back to the old belief that it’s a moral weakness. There was a time that I respected them and looked up to them, but now I find it harder and harder just to be around them. When the whole world can see black and white, they seem to cling to the gray. I don’t want to give up on them, but at some point I feel like I just have to go on without them.

Friends don't let friends drink the koolaid! Are they truly your friends? Are you truly theirs? If yes, then may I suggest you check them into rehab at www.ibt1108.org and get them the help they desperately need. We can get your friends off the juice and back to reality in no time.

 

[DObyDEFAULT]

Sheeringa

Growth is the path to profitability -- while FLOPS is shrinking for "profitability", losing customers and sending them to their competitors, the only market they'll be able to tap in the long run is trying to be the CHEAPEST-- ya'll gett'n a taste of that right now...

 

[netjetwife]

Appeal to their sense of obligation to the owners and their fellow pilots. Factually, accidents and/or mistakes are much more likely when one is tired and/or rushed. If they get it wrong because they weren't rested and didn't take all the time they needed they have hurt everyone they thought they were helping. I think the pilots who are forced to fly with misguided peers should deliberately slow the pace down lest they get dragged into a bad situation not of their making. In the busy season you know the days will be long so it is necessary to pace yourselves and conserve your energy to get through the week safely. Tell them so. How can anyone fault a pilot for making safety his top priority.

I'd want to know how those pilots can justify doing things that hurt the efforts of those who are striving to make improvements and achieve the professional standards that are long overdue. They don't work in a vacuum... and don't have the right to hold back the group. My respect and admiration to those of you standing up for yourselves, your families, and the industry. Continue to lead by example and drag the others with you. Eventually many will catch on-- management will probably see to that. That health care insult was the writing on the wall. And at the start of the holiday season, no less... I don't see how any amount of Kool-aid can wash that down....