Originally Posted by
Speedtape
Except there WAS NO bankruptcy at CAL !! That was YOUR experience, not mine
Our 05 hires made more in 2nd year pay than a 10 year guy at UAL, plus PROFIT sharing, and held 737 CA before the merger.
We had enough financing to order and pay for new aircraft, (you know, the shiny new jets you're looking at taxiing by you when you come to work every day)
Your only career expectation was to merge with another carrier, then steal some seniority in an SLI
But again, who knows, maybe an arbitrator is smoking some of your killer weed as well
That's funny because when I look up CAL's business history they report that they were in bankruptcy twice, Once from 1983 until 1984 and again in 1990 to 1997. 1997 was the same year got hired at UAL BTW and when I got hired here almost 16 years ago my number one thought was "MAN I hope to one day merge with that bankrupt airline CAL so I can steal some seniority from guys who were hired 10 plus years at CAL after I was hired at UAL".
Oh wait minute that doesn't make any sense if I was hired before them shouldn't I be senior to them...??? Whatever I've got no control over this just like you don't.
DUDE! SERIOUSLY, it's in the arbitrators hands now there is nothing we can do about it. Whatever happens happens and you can either move forward or you can be miserable the rest of your career. I've eatten enough poo pies over the last ten years to know that you just have roll with the punches or you'll wind up an angry little shell of man or worse you might find yourself 6' under as many of our guys have decided to do to themselves over the last decade. Life is to short to worry about things you can't change.
Besides that Pat Patterson could have beat up Bob Six if they would of ever had a cage match.