Originally Posted by Ottolillienthal

You didn't nip anything in the bud dude.

You just got me angrier.

This is like that guy on popeye telling him, wimpy was it?, telling him he would gladly pay me tuesday for a hamburger today.

Well, I've given Smizek and Co over 175,000 free hamburgers. Guess what; It's Tuesday. I have given and loaned in good faith, only to have this and predecessor management teams steal from me and my family.

I guess since you feel that this pilot group voted this in that somehow this pilot group will pay my family back, is that what you are saying? I don't get it. ALPA told me that retro was a cornerstone of this cba. I believed them too.

I am both disappointed in management and in my union. No more deals for me, no more loans for me the rest of my career. I will fly the contract and do nothing more. The union propaganda can go right in the trash along with the company pravda.

I find that I cannot work hard enough to meet the financial demands placed upon me. I have 2 jobs and my wife also works. This career truly sucks. No matter how hard I work, I never get ahead. I really needed and was depending on my retro check to make things right at least in my home.