Senior People Hoping for Furlough

[crj567]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting a second job. There's an open position at the Oscar Meyer Hotdog Zone on Concourse C. I have all of the credentials:

1) I can steam a hotdog
2) I hate people
3) I can't speak English
4) I never do my job
5) I am unsanitary

I've also applied to several airlines as a Singing Furlough-Telegram. What should my costume be? I was leaning towards a middle finger, but creativity has never been my strong point.

I really like your style!

Anyone who has ever dined at pretty much any of the fine eating establishments in ATL will sure enough appreciate the humor here.... The best humor comes really close to the truth-and in ATL, this is painfully close!

I would probably just dress up like Gen Lee. That guy is a walking empennage of a horse-you could just make some fun poop sounds and maybe they would promote you to lower mgmt.-just like the they did that moron!

 

[sweptback]

I am sure that if the company decides to furlough then they know bad things are on the horizon for us and most likely our block hours will not increase much in the summer. Otherwise, like others have said, they probably should have furloughed months ago.

So, if they do drop the F-bomb, there probably won't be many high-time lines to be had.

 

[Noise]

Let me guess. It was a 70 Capt. that talks funny, at one time used a cane, and tells the FA's he'd replace them with a coke machine if he could.

LOL, you would think. But I have heard this also, but from a 70 FO, around the 3yr. mark in seniority. Absolute BS to be talking like that. I am all for keeping the values down for the time being so we can keep everyone on, and most of the guys that I have talked to feel the same.

 

[BWatz]

So let me get this straight.. People actually would rather have some fellow ASA guys out on the street just so they can credit an extra 10 hours a month.. Someone should kindly slap them... Once again, I have to ask.. WTF are these guys thinking?

 

[CaribPilot]

So let me get this straight.. People actually would rather have some fellow ASA guys out on the street just so they can credit an extra 10 hours a month.. Someone should kindly slap them... Once again, I have to ask.. WTF are these guys thinking?

These are the guys who went through multiple ugly divorces, have 2 houses, & alimony payments. Of course they will need the extra money to support a drinking habit that for a couple hours at a time quiets their hate of living.

 

[hmmurdock]

Personally, I'd be in favor of a paycut to keep everyone on the property. But that's just me. As far as furloughing goes, I hope it doesn't happen, but if it does, everyone is familiar with the seniority system how it works and you subscribe to it the day you start your first day of Ground School.

Trojan

How much of a paycut, and will you let management decide how much is enough. That was a very dangerous statement. How much, 5,7, 10 dollars anhour. Who is to decide what is enough.

 

[USCtrojan]

How much of a paycut, and will you let management decide how much is enough. That was a very dangerous statement. How much, 5,7, 10 dollars anhour. Who is to decide what is enough.

I'm not surprised you would write this at all. Dangerous? It's my personal opinion, and I have one vote. There's over 1700 pilots on the seniority list, I'd like to keep it that way. Depending on the details, I PERSONALLY--as in NOT SPEAKING FOR ANYBODY ELSE, would be in favor of taking a paycut to keep everyone on the list. And the pilot group would decide if it was appropriate or not. That's what being involved in a Union is. I don't decide anything on my own, except what's right FOR ME. As far as contractual issues, it takes 50.1% of a vote to change things. You can count ME as a part of the 50.1% willing to take a paycut to carry all of our pilots. As in I care about keeping everyone on our seniority list employed if it means making a small sacrifice. It isn't dangerous to me.

Trojan

 

[Richard Gozinya]

I'm not surprised you would write this at all. Dangerous? It's my personal opinion, and I have one vote. There's over 1700 pilots on the seniority list, I'd like to keep it that way. Depending on the details, I PERSONALLY--as in NOT SPEAKING FOR ANYBODY ELSE, would be in favor of taking a paycut to keep everyone on the list. And the pilot group would decide if it was appropriate or not. That's what being involved in a Union is. I don't decide anything on my own, except what's right FOR ME. As far as contractual issues, it takes 50.1% of a vote to change things. You can count ME as a part of the 50.1% willing to take a paycut to carry all of our pilots. As in I care about keeping everyone on our seniority list employed if it means making a small sacrifice. It isn't dangerous to me.

Trojan

this is exactly the approach that was taken after 9/11. The monthly block hours were scaled back to "wait and see how the dust settled". The senior guys were on board with keeping everyone on property.

Dick

 

[AC560]

Once again, I have to ask.. WTF are these guys thinking?

That unions are predicated only by seniority and that to the elder goes the spoils? You should feel good. Most union environments I have seen the junior guys spend 90% of their time figuring out how to get anyone more senior then them fired so they can move up.

Unions quite possibly are the greatest tool ever created to assist a management team to grinding a workforce into the ground. Tell that to a union man though and he will spend 24x7 trying to organize even more. What a country....

 

[relief tube]

how much lower has both ASA and SKY guarantees gone?

 

[bigshooter107]

Tell her I have a rapist's wit

Ouch!

 

[Goose Egg]

how much lower has both ASA and SKY guarantees gone?

Can't speak for ASA, but SKW's guarantee hasn't changed at all. The people complaining are the ones that based their whole personal budget on 100 hours of flying each month, but are now forced to get by on 80. Poor babies.

-Goose

 

[FlySacto]

Can't speak for ASA, but SKW's guarantee hasn't changed at all. The people complaining are the ones that based their whole personal budget on 100 hours of flying each month, but are now forced to get by on 80. Poor babies.

-Goose

It would be nice if they would let us bid for the 63.5 credit instead of trying to build a line at 80hrs to drop later. I'm too f'ing lazy to work and it would open up flying for the guys who need it. I'm sitting fine in Hennessy from my rap star royalties.

 

[Goose Egg]

It would be nice if they would let us bid for the 63.5 credit instead of trying to build a line at 80hrs to drop later. I'm too f'ing lazy to work and it would open up flying for the guys who need it. I'm sitting fine in Hennessy from my rap star royalties.

LOL! I can't wait until I can afford to do that!

-Goose

 

[flyboyike]

We got that message from our own union at Comair. Keeping the min line value low (and I quote) "Would ONLY save 50-60 jobs."

In other words, 60 people aren't worth making 76 hours a month compared to 80ish.

Which begs the question of just how many jobs would be worth it. 150? 200? 300?