In what way was my comment "below the belt"? He made it clear from his post that he was furloughed and I'm sorry for that, but neither myself nor any other CAL pilot had anything to do with it. The same can't be said for the UAL pilot group (i.e. Mr. Whiteford). My point is that CAL is stuck with some of these crappy work rules under discussion on this thread precisely because the one section we didn't cave on was Scope. One of our "work rules" which UAL guys, particularly furloughees like SCR, may come to appreciate if we ever get a JCBA concluded (which is looking pretty remote). Sorry if my post wasn't PC enough for you but I'm not sure I could have made my point without making reference to the fact that a guy is furloughed (and why). There was absolutely no intention of making light of his situation. In the future, however, I'll be careful to address furloughees without making reference to the fact they're actually furloughed.

Keep your beer until you can figure out how to correctly capitalize.
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