Originally Posted by
JungleBus
I dunno, in an ideal world the mods would tell an outside company to pound sand, Delta doesn't own Internet Brands and oughtn't to have any input into what is or is not posted here. That's a tough line to take when several of your senior mods are employed by DL, though.
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You don't understand Delta, or their resources. We are talking about a company who probably spent $100,000 to find out who wrote the following on a spoof newsletter posted on the bathroom wall of the Atlanta pilot lounge. They used pilots, getting pilot pay, to watch countless hours of video tape to nab who walked into the bathroom holding the spoof article.
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NEWS
ALPA Defends Pilot
Management sough to discipline Captain Bob Smith after it was learned that Captain Smith placed fourth in this past weekend's celebrity Pro Am Golf Tournament at Bushwood on days that he had called in "sick." ALPA responded, "just think how well Captain Smith would have played if he had not been sick."
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The pilots who were honest and fessed up to the joke were busted back in status and lost more than a month's pay. Then there is the example below:
Wiki_Ellen Simonetti
Candidly, I do not understand why some people I've flown with (Flight Attendants) can walk around in uniform with pictures on their bag tags of fully nude men, and we can sponsor speaking engagements for folks like Rich Merritt who uses the platform to talk about his experience as a gay porn star, while on the other hand busting people for posting what appears to me to be a pretty innocent joke. All we know for sure is that what is left of Delta's HR functions don't necessarily think the way we do and "our" management isn't going to stand in the way of they decide to target someone over on the operations side of the Company.
That's just the way it is. If a MOD decided to do something to keep me out of hot water, my response is ... THANK YOU. Delta's a great Company to work for.