Originally Posted by
skillett
This is why this industry is so messed up. Your screwing with your own future at mainline because people like you are happy making 36,000 a year, 8 years into job at professional airline career. Next thing you know there will more dips willing to work for lower wages and cut you out of job. Yes the housekeeper makes crap. But the janitor is making twice the money you are. If this is a proud and prestigous job pay me like a professional. Thats all I ask. I'm negative on APC because it gets the steam out. Things are looking good and I think the pay will have to come up. But tell me to walk the plank after I worked this hard and come this far. And if your willing to go fly an Airbus for let's say 55,000 a year for the nxt 10 years. Tell everyone to walk if your not happy and complaining. You will have nothing but a bunch of people that have no business being in an airplane. If you want intelligent people in this business you got to pay them. Plane and simple.
How did you come to make all of those assumptions about me? I make more than 3 times what you speak of. Do I think that I am paid approperiately? Hell NO! What my point is, is that you can dwell on the negatives and make you and those around you miserable or you can minimize the unpleasant (does not mean you accept any part of it) and focus on the positive. I can give you a real life example. When I am in Nairobi I find that a lot of poor people there have smiles on their faces. When I am in New Delhi I find no poor people with smiles on their faces. Why? IMO it is because in Nairobi everybody is poor and they do not know a better way so they are happy with the blessings that they perceive they have. In India the "untouchables" are surrounded by the trappings of wealth with expensive cars going by etc. They tend to focus on what they see in front of them that they don't have, well that and the fact that they are actually starving. It is all in how you see yourself. If you have a negative attitude for very long it will become the norm for you and I can guarentee that when you go for that interview at United, Delta, or American the HR people will pick up on it. Having been in law enforcement for 20+ years I am enjoying my career at a job where I frankly don't think I work very hard. That being said, I still think I am underpaid. What am I doing about it? Having a great time and supporting my Union in anyway I can. Fortunately for me I have been through some very dark times and I know how bad things can really get. I don't like to fly with guys with your attitude but I will not allow you to take the fun out of this job for me either. Rant over.