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Old 09-24-2011 | 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by tsquare
It is not necessarily that I saw that per se. (but that is a good observation) The questions where you had to choose whether something was absolutely critical, merely critical, critical.. etc (TIC) seemed a bit managing to me. All these issues are absolutely critical IMHO. We have been on a BK contract for 10+ years now!! Almost half of my career. The problem that I see is the DALPA leadership will tout our existing contract as being industry leading in many ways, which it probably is. But that doesn't acknowledge the fact that I just intimated: we have been on a BK contract for 10+ years. Restoration (whatever that means); no, improvements on a galactic scale are absolutely paramount. And I don't know about you, but I cannot realistically rank seven items in a particular order of importance. After number 2, I am just filling it in so I can move on. I have no earthly idea whether something is 6th most important in my mind.. no wait.. it is actually 5th more important... really? I guess in a way, a survey is not really necessary. I mean, does the leadership really need a poll to determine what is/is not important to the pilot group at this point? Fire away ya'll.
Can't agree more, the ranking questions, in particular, pi$$ed me off.
The whole thing of playing word semantics with the ranking system in some way makes it seem that certain contractual concerns are of unimportance to the pilot group.

For Example,
Where would you be prefer to be violently attacked/punched/kicked repeatedly?
(Rank the following Least/Most Important)
_ In the throat
_ In the back
_ Between the legs
_ In the face
_ Smacked in the face with a tabasco-soaked, riding crop

Based on the word play of that question one could come to the assumption that one would be most in favor of being smacked in the face with a tabasco-soaked riding crop, when maybe the individual answering the question may just not want to be violently attacked in the first place. That is why I don't think ranking questions are very applicable to an opinion orientated survey.

I'm glad the survey is out, and I'm glad I have an opportunity to give my input, but I still felt as though I was being painted into a corner with an answer from a carefully-crafted question.