Fortune 100 Best Places to Work- CAL couldn't buy the award in 2008

[luckytohaveajob]

And sorry SWA, but you guys don't make the cut either.

Looks like CAL and SWA will just have to keep telling their employees how great they are as it appears most believe it. Do CAL and SWA pilots get to take those banners home and put them up on their walls or does Larry and Gary come over each night and tuck you in?

Hopefully in 2009, the awards will cost CAL and SWA less and they can again afford to buy one.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2009/full_list/

 

[say again]

Who cares?!?!?!

 

[luckytohaveajob]

Who cares?!?!?!

Only those who posted all those stickers on the doors and jetways of the planes. And those who put up all those 5 by 10 banners in the hallways. And the companies who plastered it all over their inflight magazines continuously, spoke about it on their commercials, bought bill boards bragging about it continually, printed it on their napkins. And repeatedly claimed they were the greatest places on Earth to work. SWA went so far as to write a book call NUTS. And CAL wrote one called from Worse to First.

And all their little goose stepping employees chanted the slogans.

JD Power and Associates. Fortune 100 Best Places to Work. Those awards are purchased. Sold as employee moral. And it works because the employees who thought they worked for those companies bragged about how great it was without any sense of reality.

 

[say again]

So you are saying that CAL and SWA are not good companies to work for?

 

[CA1900]

SWA went so far as to write a book call NUTS...

You do realize that Southwest didn't write that book, don't you?

 

[Ex737Driver]

Still missing your point. There is only one airline in the list and it isn't even a passenger airline. No passenger airline made it. Can you elaborate?

 

[LearLove]

someone is riding the crazy train today....

 

[Yuppyguppy]

Hey where did UAL fall in the top 100? Oh wait wrong award.

 

[Mach 80]

I know SWA pulled themselves out of these magazine/poll "contests" several years ago because it involved taking time filling out paperwork, giving tours, getting interviewed, etc etc and they felt it would be a better use of employees' time not to help a magazine create a sensation article. Anytime one of these magazine or poll outfits calls SWA headquarters, SWA basicly tells them to take a hike, they have an airline to run.

 

[CA1900]

...SWA basicly tells them to take a hike, they have an airline to run.

I'm sure glad they told that to all those camera crews following them around for their little TV show.

Oh, wait...

 

[100/hour/5y]

CAL Sucks... I am out here as soon as SWA, FedEx, UPS or Delta start hiring...
Feb is a vacation month... Lucky me, I get to do 5 crossing instead of 6...
Next month, I get to do training on my days off and just wait until summertime...

 

[Skippy]

UAL did make the top 100-- of the worst places to work and it was number 1

 

[Pocono Pilot]

CAL is a best place to work. LOL

Maybe if you don't want any health insurance or respect or a life. LOL

I heard that anyone who went to CAL from Express really regrets the decision. I'm really glad that I decided to stay where I'm at. Plus, I heard that tons of people left CAL after a few months because it was so bad.

I guess Larry needed more turtle wax for his forehead, so he decided not to pay for the awards this year. LOL

 

[RocketRob]

CAL is a best place to work. LOL

Maybe if you don't want any health insurance or respect or a life. LOL

I heard that anyone who went to CAL from Express really regrets the decision. I'm really glad that I decided to stay where I'm at. Plus, I heard that tons of people left CAL after a few months because it was so bad.

I guess Larry needed more turtle wax for his forehead, so he decided not to pay for the awards this year. LOL/QUOTE]

Girl, If you really are one, You are delusional.

 

[BID]

CAL Sucks... I am out here as soon as SWA, FedEx, UPS or Delta start hiring...
Feb is a vacation month... Lucky me, I get to do 5 crossing instead of 6...
Next month, I get to do training on my days off and just wait until summertime...

That might take a while! Please let us know when you leave I am curious which airline will hire you first. I envy your guts to chase that nice green grass. I on the other hand, would rather just work on my lawn.

The problem with CAL is the employee group has voted in the worse contract in CAL history. (with the exception of scope sorry Pocohole) Everything else at this airline is looking good. but if you are not happy here, then please go. I am sure no one will stop you and unfortunately, you will not be the first to leave. However, I do think you will be one of the last.

I just can't imagine being at the bottom of any one of those airline's seniority list, especially Delta, 12,000 plus pilots! no thanks.