Buffett Bites Back at NetJets Pilot Complaints

[realityman]

Gosh. I never realized how heroic we pilots are...

Which is why you're willing to settle for less.

I know exactly what we do for a living. I do it every time I go to work. I'm good at what I do. I'm a professional. That means that everything I do comes naturally and easily these days. The benefit of experience. However, I try to not let the fact that what I'm doing feels easy blind me to the fact that what I do is very difficult, requires a lot of training, is enhanced by my experience, reduces the quality of my family life at home, and is totally disrespected by our current management team.

We are heroic. Just the fact that we continue to operate nearly accident free with the tools we're given and the way we're treated requires a certain level of heroism.

Maybe you've been lucky enough to slip by under the radar with management so far. Good for you! Let me know how you feel about it after you've done nothing worse than come off a vacation with the flu or something, did the right thing and called in sick, and then was brought to CMH for a third world interrogation about why you called in sick right after vacation and then being left NQC for months being left to wonder what your fate will be when they get back to you with a decision.

Heroic? Hell yes!

 

[realityman]

You do realize "parked airplanes" means furloughed pilots, right?

I park airplanes every time I go to work. They're falling apart. I don't see any furloughs happening. Quite the opposite actually. Stop being so afraid.

 

[realityman]

Not enough pilots available for that to happen, hopefully.

Doesn't matter. They're doing it anyway. Common sense and facts haven't stopped them from doing stupid things so far.

 

[G4dude]

And pilots are still not showing up for class, and initials are being cancelled.

That is great news, if true. How do you know this?

 

[G4dude]

Yeah....that's just hearsay.

People often say what they think you want to hear.

Let's just say I'm skeptical of both your perception and that this is a true representation of owner support.

However, I'd be happy to see concrete evidence that you are right.

My conversations with owners mirror what Diesel is saying.

 

[gunfyter]

That is great news, if true. How do you know this?

I just did recurrent. The FSI guys said initials were canceled for May. They said they'd been working very hard and it seemed like a good break for them and we were lucky to get the bankers hours in the sim instead of the night shift.

It can't be because we a fat on pilots ... did you see how many Falcon and Gulfstream guys left last month?

 

[G4dude]

I just did recurrent. The FSI guys said initials were canceled for May. They said they'd been working very hard and it seemed like a good break for them and we were lucky to get the bankers hours in the sim instead of the night shift.

It can't be because we a fat on pilots ... did you see how many Falcon and Gulfstream guys left last month?

Wow. Great news for us, gives us leverage to get better compensation.

 

[NJAowner]

We are heroic.

Heroic? Hell yes!

Realityman -- I hate to burst your bubble and have you return to reality .. but that is not heroic. Getting shot at while you fly like Semore Butts, Gunfyter and countless others on here is heoric -- and thank you guys. In flying passenger jets you are just doing a darn great job which I truly appreciate -- but you are not a hero to me.

 

[G4dude]

Doesn't matter. They're doing it anyway. Common sense and facts haven't stopped them from doing stupid things so far.

I think the marketplace in general and the pilot shortage in particular will force them to stop being stupid eventually, maybe very soon. Not getting new pilots will focus their minds wonderfully.

 

[G4dude]

We are heroic.

Heroic? Hell yes!

Realityman -- I hate to burst your bubble and have you return to reality .. but that is not heroic. Getting shot at while you fly like Semore Butts, Gunfyter and countless others on here is heoric -- and thank you guys. In flying passenger jets you are just doing a darn great job which I truly appreciate -- but you are not a hero to me.

NJAowner, you and gutshotdraw and gunfyter make flightinfo a pretty good place to be.