Pipe- deep breath brother- you sound like you've been drinking-
WATCHA GONNA DOOO BROTHER, WHEN HULKAMANIA RUNS WILD OVER YOOOOU!!
Ahhh, memories of one of my childhood heros! But I tell ya, Hulk Hogan has been wrestling so long, the first time he pinned a guy, they counted it down in Roman Numerals.....
I....II....III. Look at him now, he looks like Dog the Pastrami Hunter!:laugh:
if you feel disrespected, maybe you haven't been acting respectable and assume it's automatic w/ a pilot title. I got respect working construction as a teen bc I earned it and have yet to be disrespected on the job- security is reality, not disrespect- same w/ drug- alc tests and stupid pax's - good far outweighs the bad
The only thing automatic with a pilot title these days is total disrespect from the vast majority of gate agent and operations personnel. I really don't know what we ever did to those people, but the contempt is palpable. And boy do they just love to confront us and demand to see our ID's in front of the passengers before they give us approval to proceed to our airplanes so we can do our jobs. The passengers must be saying to themselves..."we're going to be putting our lives in the hands of these guys that aren't even given the authority to go down to their planes on their own without "permission" and "approval" from a gate agent?? What kind of as* backwards command structure is this?"
Amen brother, on you getting respect on your construction job. I also worked construction in my late teens and in my 20's, also drove trucks, and received more respect and was demeaned far less as a 20 something punk as* who thought I knew it all. Not only by my co-workers and customers but by the bosses as well. Now we are made to feel subordinate in front of the passengers to the gate/ops agents and local station management. Very sad, and humiliating and yet another sorry commentary on this miserable profession..errr...I mean J O B!
You say security is a reality? Then why is it only a reality for Pilots and FA's? While every other station personnel is trusted to bypass security. And don't give me that "subject to random screening" BS, that occurs once every other year. I have seen station personnel's kids roaming around beneath the terminals, while I get challenged to show my ID while in full uniform attempting to walk through the gate/ops agents break room. If that is not disrespect, I don't know what is. I couldn't care less if they walk through our crew room. But this is the culture that airline management wants, pitting labor against labor, and while we bicker among ourselves, management continues to steam roll over our careers, turning into mere J O B's.
As for me- if my capts been drinking I'll talk to him
And that is fine I suppose. If any of my crew members have been drinking, I will assume they have arrived to work able to do their jobs adequately. After all, we are all relatively intelligent adults and I am not going to be a babysitter or psychologist for anybody, or keep track of anybody's layover activities. I was raised a rugged individualist, and I take responsibility for my own actions, and expect my coworkers to take responsibility for theirs, and do the right thing. In other words, don't involve me in someone else's problems! Everybody wants to pass the buck these days and play the blame game, but I will have none of it!