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Old 05-21-2012 | 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ShyGuy
How is the SWA culture dead? What do you mean by that, and can you give examples? Truly curious, thanks.
Off the top of my head:

--Company is now run solely by the numbers
--Constant harping on the pilots because "we call is sick too much"
--RBF's now end with the dreaded "....up to and including termination."
--Scheduled 40 and even 50 minute turns with padded block times to compensate for chronic shortage of ground workers
--Captain has the least authority of any employee on the airplane (SWA Captains: go ahead and look at a flight attendant or ops agent cross eyed and see what happens)
--Management that will double talk and not honor the "intent" of anything (Remember the no ADG on open time debacle?)
--In house union with no teeth

The good is that we have lots of days off, excellent pay (for now) and AM/PM flying exclusively (for now). As a line holding Captain it's great. I just wonder with the coming 2,000 age 65 retirements/year if SWA will still attract pilots.
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