Originally Posted by jetlink

Most of you in the pool will be heading to JBU in Orlando soon. In my opinion, JB will need more then what they are predicting for 2013. I just turned in my resignation, and there is another two in my class that will be moving on soon. They were a bid surprised, when I emailed them my resignation, and asked me why I'm quitting and how they can retain "talent". My answer is very easy: It's a free market thing! Offer pilots a better pay, and over all compensation package, stop rhetorics of "orgasmic growth" when you deliver 10 A320 and 9 are replacement. Stop raping your employees of benefits when you make billions in record profits (the Caring thing you know), stop intimidating PVC members that are trying to make a difference. Stop comparing your existing "talent" to Cape Air or local flight school Commercial pilots.
When your blue juice level and pressure is finally down, and you start looking from inside out, you'll see, that jB is another stepping stone in your career and management doesn't care if you are going to stay or move on, since right now they have plenty of applicants out there. But they will have to do something next year, when most of the qualified "talents" will start quitting in bulks every week for legacies. For now they are focusing on hiring pilots without PIC or low time, since they know, those candidates will stick around for a while. Good luck to you all, I wish you best of the career in jB, and I hope they will change their approach for retaining "talent"