[QUOTE=Airhoss;1275196]15 year Jr F/O on reserve here.
dvhighdrive88,
First off, who do you work for? Second you've completely and totally missed the point. It's not about shifting stuff around and making changes. It's about one side, L-UAL, being decimated and the other side growing in leaps and bounds.
It about the L-CAL side having growth and movement and the L-UAL side being stuck in perpetual stagnation. Since I was surplussed to the right seat 2.5 years ago I've not moved up one single solitary number in fact I've slid back 3 numbers on my fleet and seat. That is with 15 working on 16 years of seniority.
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I'm sorry as hell about that Hoss. Truly if we were standing face to face I would like to implore upon you how crappy a situation I find this to be. I personally vehemently despise the hardships the 2172 and 1437 have been through. It is gut wrenching to hear the stories over and over and to have lived my own-each a sad and difficult road traveled with a ruined career as a companion.
But there is only one way forward people and that is together. That is a fetid cliche I give you but it is the truth. Another worn out cliche is the truth shall set you free and the truth here is that both groups rolled the dice and we lost. We gambled on United and we turned up snake eyes.
So there it is. How now brown cow? I see as our best chances to let go of this painful time and engage real catharsis as pushing forward with the new agenda of recovery in this profession. As nauseatingly comfortable and seductive as self pity and morbid reflection can be for what has happened, one of the few lights I see ahead in this tunnel is the possibility that through unification we as a combined United pilot group can make great leaps forward in the coming years. I firmly believe tangible gains in our QOL and the value of our profession is possible if handled right by us. I haven't great concern for the trials and tribulation or the difficulties this career will deal us in the future for I also understand the truth that it will come again no matter my level of preparation. The truth is also that the opponents to our gains as a group have as much a passion for their craft as do I. I accept it and expend little energy hand wringing about what their plans may be.
So here we are. The truth is there and it is naked in the open. So how forward? How do we deal with this change to United and yet advance our cause while continuing to provide the safest and most efficient airline industry on the planet? Perhaps some may call that "rolling over" but I find the possibilities of the future far more consoling than the suffocating memories since 9/11.