View Poll Results: AIRLINE PILOTS: What are we?
Blue collar laborers
107
47.35%
White collar professionals
82
36.28%
I don't know or don't care
37
16.37%
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AIRLINE PILOTS: What are we?
#13
Well played Tom.
Those that get spitting mad claiming they're WHITE collar identify themselves with management. What they really have on is a Thrall collar when it comes to contract negotiations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjRLtYZB-2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iig53f6CU9E
Those that get spitting mad claiming they're WHITE collar identify themselves with management. What they really have on is a Thrall collar when it comes to contract negotiations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjRLtYZB-2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iig53f6CU9E
Last edited by Gunter; 09-02-2014 at 03:14 PM.
#14
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Collar workers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia According to this, we are "grey collar" workers, a white collar subcategory.
#17
This is an interesting subject, far from a joke. Airline pilots bear a few blue collar traits (hourly pay, heavy in technical tasks requiring less than an undergraduate education for example), but those are the minority in my view and the rest are white collar indicators such as makes discretionary decisions based on combinations of higher education or lengthy experience without direct supervision. Supervises the work of other professionals might be another.
A few years ago when Wichita was decimated by massive layoffs I was working as an engineer and found it necessary to determine what kind of engineer I was. White collar for sure, but there are subcategories namely, salaried exempt or salaried non-exempt by state labor laws. That's irrelevant but what I found in the state law was surprisingly detailed descriptions of what makes a worker fall into one subgroup or another. They were detailed, lawyer-quality descriptions of the subject down to seemingly nit-picking things like determines their own working hours, makes 25% or more of their own decisions without immediate review, handles large items of monetary value without supervision on a regular basis while making decisions using education obtained primarily from a combination of multi-year apprenticeship and/or graduate studies, on and on. They had it all worked out and there was no doubt what kind of worker you are.
A few years ago when Wichita was decimated by massive layoffs I was working as an engineer and found it necessary to determine what kind of engineer I was. White collar for sure, but there are subcategories namely, salaried exempt or salaried non-exempt by state labor laws. That's irrelevant but what I found in the state law was surprisingly detailed descriptions of what makes a worker fall into one subgroup or another. They were detailed, lawyer-quality descriptions of the subject down to seemingly nit-picking things like determines their own working hours, makes 25% or more of their own decisions without immediate review, handles large items of monetary value without supervision on a regular basis while making decisions using education obtained primarily from a combination of multi-year apprenticeship and/or graduate studies, on and on. They had it all worked out and there was no doubt what kind of worker you are.
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Yes, class struggles don't you know. If we are Proletarians we are struggling with the Bourgeois for who gets to screw the workers as we make them compete for their wages. If we are Blue Collar obviously it is our duty to slay both the Proletarians and the Bourgeois in their sleep when the revolution comes.
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