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

[mamba20]

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.

And when we merge with United?

 

[PHXFLYR]

CAL and SWA pilots need to keep saying the slogans they are told and believing they work for the best airlines in the industry.

And keep up the good attitude when you are suffering from fatigue after your five crossings on your light schedule getting paid for four because of your sick call. And after you get your min rest after a double divert home. And brag about your $5000 per month gross check with $2500 of take home pay after you have funded your retirement, paid hundreds of dollars for the health insurance you just got, paid back the loan you took out to survive the first year a few years ago, made your student loan payment and flight training credit card 19% interest payments, paid for your new uniforms, luggage, and recent medical. And then get to live in those wonderful bases or suffer a commute to work the next time into a snow storm or thunderstorm area without a commuter policy and supervisory pilot ready to dock your pay. Oh, and don't call in sick or your busted!

But hey, you got a slogan and you can tell everyone your company has bought a few JD Power Associate Awards. What a feather in your cap.

And then there is the corndog 737 lifer who thinks an international overnight is anywhere out of Texas. What time is it in Texas when your in Paris? Who thinks autopilots are for wimps, everyone is a Kentucky Fried Chicken Colonel. Who thinks pilots should fly till their 70's now and plan to push for the next change and currently like flying with over 60 pilots. Who think six legs or more a day is a walk in the park. And doesn't care if its company inspects its aircraft by FAA standards or not. And needs a new flight manual issued every six months to keep the good-o-boys 30 years of stunt flying a little safer after a few recent high profile Evil Kinevals off the ends of a few runways in Burbank and Midway. But hey, Colleen sends you a birthday card and you get to wear those cool fighter pilot jackets and look like you just got off your 25 missions over Germany.

So enjoy your slogans and keep bringing the industry career standards down to new lows to undercut the competition. And buy a few more sparklers and tinsel to go with your corndogs and maybe someday you will all learn how to use the automation Boeing delievered the airplane with after your company puts the boxes back in the aircraft if they can find the pawn shop they sold them to.

..!!!


PHXFLYR

 

[nimtz]

If I'm not mistaken, CAL made some lame co-op a few years back by stating that they had made the list too much. So in the future they had to withdraw the name from consideration. It was finely spun koolaid to say the least. That's the logic used for not being on the list anymore.

Let's be realistic, no freaking US airline deserves on this list. I don't care if you get unlimited peanuts or a Ford Explorer for perfect attendance, you still work in an industry the public loathes. I make the best of it, but I also don't let management koolaid cloud reality.

 

[GuppyWN]

And needs a new flight manual issued every six months to keep the good-o-boys 30 years of stunt flying a little safer after a few recent high profile Evil Kinevals off the ends of a few runways in Burbank and Midway.

The MDW pilots did everything by the book. Joshua Woods did not die because of pilot error. He died because of innacurate braking reports and a weather observation that was not exactly timely.

I wish you'd pop off like that to my face.

Gup

 

[SMOE]

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/

So, I guess the interviews at both places didn't go well, eh?

 

[SMOE]

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...

Care to trade positions a$$hole?

 

[CA1900]

The MDW pilots did everything by the book...

The NTSB disagrees:

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows: The pilots' failure to use available reverse thrust in a timely manner to safely slow or stop the airplane after landing, which resulted in a runway overrun...

The first officer said that, when he sensed a decrease in the airplane's deceleration during the landing sequence, he exclaimed, "brakes, brakes, brakes," and manually applied the brakes. He stated that he then looked at the throttle console and saw that the thrust reverse levers were still in the stowed position. The first officer moved the captain's hand away from the thrust reverser levers and, about 15 seconds after touchdown, initiated deployment of the thrust reversers to the maximum reverse setting...

 

[Pocono Pilot]

I really can't understand why CAL pilots take such crap from their management? But one thing I do know is that they do. LOL

I think CAL pilots have battered wife syndrome.

 

[say again]

The MDW pilots did everything by the book. Joshua Woods did not die because of pilot error. He died because of innacurate braking reports and a weather observation that was not exactly timely.

I wish you'd pop off like that to my face.

Gup

Keep telling yourself that!!

 

[BID]

I really can't understand why CAL pilots take such crap from their management? But one thing I do know is that they do. LOL

I think CAL pilots have battered wife syndrome.

it is true our management is tough, All you have to do is ask your management.