JoeMerchant
ASA pilot
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2005
- Posts
- 6,353
As for the rest of you...
It takes years of training to be a pilot as well./ You're attitudes are awful about what you do- And you clearly don't know many who did not make it- or any good pilot that has died in an a/c. We are responsible for a LOT- And a lower amount of people than you think are willing to do this job at all, much less for what the average pilot ACTUALLY earns +the instability and real possibility of starting over.
BS!.....I have FO's who have taken 11 month "crash" courses (no pun intended) to get in the right seat of a 121 cockpit....Many times the captains are having to take the controls during the landing or talk the FO through a visual approach.....It is much easier to become a 121 pilot than a doctor, lawyer, or CEO....fix that and then we can talk....ALPA has yet to do anything about that....
waveflyer said:As for the recession... it's nothing new to any of us... If 50+% paycuts and pensions stolen hasn't equalled a recession- i don't know what does. ... so now this monster created by corporate greed... That should somehow equal workers continuing to take it in the arse how?
That's all fine and dandy....but increases costs on companies now will push those companies closer to failure....Go ahead and push yours toward the cliff...You are my competition and I encourage you to go first.....
waveflyer said:I'm worth every penny i've ever been paid in this career and a WHOLE lot more.
I'm sorry you all don't feel the same. Maybe you should do your job more professionally and work a little harder and maybe you would feel the same way.
Could you imagine any exec saying the crap you all just typed out? He!!, i've never seen the average real estate agent say anything like that.
Waveflyer.....CEOs, doctors, and lawyers don't have a union....we do....looks to me like the free market without unions is trumping our sorry a$$ union.....
Your worth what you negotiate...We are too easily replaced, have no unity, and cannot transport our seniority....No amount of ALPA chest thumping can trump those realities....Maybe it's time to try something different.....