ASA Worst of the Worst in USA Today

[Maiko]

I hear you, Mike. Like I said, we are, by nature, goal oriented people. It drives me nuts that management spends their time trying to figure out ways to squeeze money out of it's employees rather than empower us to work more efficiently/effectively. ASA is without a doubt an organization in extreme denial (at least the management is). Only recently has the President admitted there is any sort of problem with our ramp in ATL, which is something we on the front line have been literally been screaming about for many months/years! Also, I was there one day (I'm sure one of many times) our system chief pilot told us that there was absolutely no chance we'd ever have an LAX base. When I heard this from his mouth it was less than 2.5 months prior to the announcement that we are opening an LAX base. This, by the way, was said during a speech that was supposed to convince us that management was trying to be open and honest with us, and they just couldn't understand why we don't trust them. Also, they've told us we need to take pay cuts to "be competitive." Take a look at the latest profit numbers for Skywest Inc.

-Blucher

PS-I still did actually throw bags a couple of days ago at an outstation because I couldn't believe how slow they were taking to get the "pink-tags" off the a/c and I just got too darned embarrassed!

Pay cuts I think are a joke. There should be no reason to continually ask for more cash from those that are trying to make a difference in this industry. I will have to look it up, but remember reading something recently regarding pay cuts. I think it was an article regarding AA. Where everybody works together to cut fat, not by reducing paychecks, but reducing all the in house waste. It was interesting. Makes you stop and think, someone is trying a different approach. What caught my eye was they mentioned that it costs 1 million to heavy check a DC9 in house. Farm it out would be half. But employees were given a chance to prove they could do it without cuts and now have reduced the checks in house to .75 million. Not bad in a short period of time, needless to say, heavy checks stay in house. Cut waste, not pay. Keep an eye on the folks at AA.

Have you ever worked elsewhere?
You have a great attitude!!
Mike