Originally Posted by
newKnow
alfa,
Are you really bragging that we got an early retirement program that the rest of the employees got the previous year? In my book, it was an epic fail that we didn't get the program with the other employees, then bought off on the the proposition that it was a "gift" included to sweeten the new contract. Just like the "gifts" of the 717 and retired 50 seat RJ's. Oh, and my favorite, the max of 14 hours of duty for short call reserve.
When I buy my kids sweaters and school supplies for Christmas, they know the deal (we were going to get them those things anyway.) Why don't we?
I am not bragging about anything. It is just Jack Bauer highlighted this item as if it was a lie. Instead, it was delivered exactly as promised. If you have a contract then it restricts management from taking stuff away on their own. It also prevents them from giving you something on their own.
It really becomes impossible to gauge any performance when you write everything off as "it would happen anyway", when in fact you don't know if any of it would have happened. This is a cop out and a poor excuse for analysis. "Oh yeah, we would have gotten that anyway." Okay, then you have set the rules where you can win any argument because we are now operating in your fantasy world that can never be questioned because it exists only in your own mind. Look back at all the other pilot groups and let me know how often they "got that on their own anyway". In fact they didn't get jack until we set the entire industry on it's ear last year.