Originally Posted by
CVG767A
I read this, and had to make a comment. You don't like what our union is doing to our careers? Are you really angry? Well, do something about it! Run for office! Do some committee work! If you haven't done anything, I can only assume that you're either too lazy, or too risk averse to run for a position.
Like the other keyboard commandoes, you do nothing but sit on the sidelines, throwing rocks at the people who are actually trying to improve our prospects. Do you really think that you can effect change while sitting in your boxers in your hotel room, hammering away on a keyboard?
Despite what you may think, what is said on this board doesn't alter the course of our union. To even a greater extent than the ALPA message boards, this is becoming a forum for the disaffected outliers. Rational, balanced views are met with criticism and personal attacks.
Do you actually wonder why so many people have left this forum? I used to be on here frequently (back in the ACL65 days, when there was good information to be found here). Now, this thread is worth no more than an occasional drive-by. There still are some worthwhile posters on here (no, you're not one of 'em), but their voices are being drowned out by too many keyboard commandoes.
I get that Drank may come across the wrong way for a lot of folks who don't like the stark terms and one sided view, but he's at one end of the spectrum while we get some others at the other end. If the others couldn't take the heat for their one sided views, apparently they decided to move on. Drank sticks around. But what I get from this response is the problem doesn't have to do with anything union related; by gawd they're doing as much as humanly possible, and ONLY have the interests of the pilots first, foremost, last, and everything in between. No, the problem is the pilots who don't understand what our union has to deal with. And the problem is when the pilots say anything negative, because the only way to get better results (is that even possible? I mean how could anyone be disappointed with anything?) is to compliment the union for the results we're seeing, and volunteer. You know how often I've heard the "volunteer" line? It's getting old.
