NO JS to anti-ALPA types

[WalterSobchak]

I would like to point out that, as someone who has no dog in the everlasting ALPA fight...as well as someone who often has to hope for the jumpseat to get home...that I respect each individual pilot's opinion on the unions.




(just trying to publicly position myself as neutral so as to not piss off anyone enough to get denied)

 

[Speedtape]

I would like to point out that, as someone who has no dog in the everlasting ALPA fight...as well as someone who often has to hope for the jumpseat to get home...that I respect each individual pilot's opinion on the unions.




(just trying to publicly position myself as neutral so as to not piss off anyone enough to get denied)

As the baseball umpires say with a successful head-first slide into a stolen base--"Your SAFE!!!!!!"

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

I am involved in improving our profession.... more so than most..... I have done my "tour of duty" in ALPA.... Almost 10 years of volunteering....

10 years of volunteering wiped out by your silly lawsuit. It takes a lifetime to build a reputation Joey and one silly, divisive lawsuit to destroy it.

ALPA isn't "unifying" us..... It is dividing us.... You are at Aloha, so you don't see it first hand like many of us "regional whipsaw victims".....

But Joey.. you haven't offered real solutions. It is a tough a quandry. ALPA can't figure it out but neither can you...so instead of accepting responsibility... you criticize, blame and sue. You know...all the aspects of character...

I was an ALPA "true believer"..... wore the pin, went to meetings, walked numerous info. pickets, put the stickers on the flight bag, etc.... Then I watched how ALPA allowed and participated in the "bidding" process.... I watched ALPA groups fight amongst themselves with scope, mergers, and age 60.....

No, Joey, you have weak character. You created a perception that ALPA was your everything, and when your expectations where let down, you couldn't look in the mirror. You had to blame someone else. You bought a Honda Civic thinking it would perform like a Porsche. Now you blame Honda. Blame yourself.

You can't stand it Joey.. to the point that you have to get on FI and use the Skywest Orginizing Drive as a platform to run your bitter bile amongst us.

More irresponsibility on your part.. whenther its your lawsuit (traitor, divider) or your weak attempts to turn a justified jumpseat denial (PIC Auth and social grace) into union thuggery and threats.... its all about you Jeoy and your expectations....climb inside your mind Joey.

I don't say "Fck ALPA", but I don't wear the pin anymore, and if you ask me about ALPA..... I will give you an honest answer..... ALPA has failed....

Of course you don't wear the pin Joey... your bitter has caused you to reounce the organization that you failed. You can't be effective. So you hate.

Simply put, you had a falling out with "someone" (ALPA) and now you need to get other people to hate to make yourself feel better.

We all know ALPA has problems Joey, but we aren't giving up. We aren't giving into hate, bitterness and self defeatism. Despite our problems we are working hard to make things better.

 

[John Pennekamp]

Joe,

Maybe, the J/S er tinkled in the Captain's wheaties. FYI, it pays to be political and practice a little diplomacy every once and a while--especially when one is J/S ing. How bad do you want it--the J/S? Espousing strong positional views only works on Flightinfo. If Jumpseating, in reality, you are placing yourself in a subserviant position and at the mercy of the god like figure in the left seat. Just like a check ride, it's "Yes Sir, No Sir, 3 bags full, Sir!"

Sorry Speedtape, but Pookie shouldn't have asked the question if he wasn't prepared for an answer he didn't like. Diplomacy goes both ways! Pookie injected politics into the jumpseat and he was wrong there. He was also wrong when he sent the jumpseater on the long walk back up the jetway. Anyone who supports Pookie doesn't get it.

The jumpseat is NOT a political tool. Period.

 

[ParrotheadGTI]

Seriously dude... I don't care how you what your stand is on a union. I'm not going to screw someone out of getting to work or getting home. You're a first class a$$.

amen!!!!

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I would like to point out that, as someone who has no dog in the everlasting ALPA fight...as well as someone who often has to hope for the jumpseat to get home...that I respect each individual pilot's opinion on the unions.




(just trying to publicly position myself as neutral so as to not piss off anyone enough to get denied)

You, as well as your cohorts XPOO and HomerJDispatch are welcome anytime, eventhough you dispatchers have a superiority complex with pilots.

 

[siucavflight]

This whole therad is stupid. Pookie made this up. He works at SKW and I would be willing to bet a million to one that he did not deny one of his own a JS.

The only people I have ever seen denied a JS at Eagle are the Go-Jets guys.

 

[ArcticFlier]

Where does it end? Scope, Age 60, Hillary/Thompson, Abortion, Gun Control, Ginger/Mary Ann?

My vote is for MaryAnn. She's still hot. Had her on my plane about three months ago.

Listen, don't ask questions that you aren't prepared for the answer.... Don't kick a jumpseater off because he answered your question truthfully.....

Exactly. However "fcuk ALPA" isn't using your noggin either. Perhaps if Pookie had used the exact quote in his first post, this thread may have taken a different tone. The j/s shouldn't be used as a weapon of any kind. Educational tool.......sure.

If this were true (which I doubt), our j/s coordinator will get it resolved promptly and in a satisfactory manner.

 

[CoATP]

Pookie,
With a Comm/Multi, 3000 hours, and ten years of ALPA you must have sat in a crash pad on reerve for a LONG time ..... methinks this is flame bait (or perhaps anti-ALPA bait)

But 6 pages later it looks like it worked.

 

[NEDude]

No, I support Captain's authority. The jumpseat belongs to the Captain, and it is his to do with as he pleases.

Actually it belongs to the airline and ops manuals put limitations on its use. The captain has the authority to deny it to some people, and cannot put someone in it that the ops manual prohibits.