Originally Posted by
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I went out of JFK on Wednesday. By the coffee machine there was a pile of cookies, pretzels, and M & M's off the airplane, which I assumed was our Pre-Thanksgiving "
treat." No problem. It wasn't Thanksgiving and if they were going to do something special, doing it on the next day made sense to me. Until…..
…one of our flight attendants showed us the pictures she took of the
FULL BUFFET (Turkey, dressing, pumpkin pie, etc.) they had in the flight attendant lounge at the same time.
I brushed it off, because I thought she might have been playing a joke on us.
But, now all I can say is: Really?
Did the flight attendants really have a buffet in JFK the day before Thanksgiving, too?
I know this is a loaded statement and I'll probably get slack for it....I'm sure there was a time when management over-catered to pilots and spoiled them, but know we have gone so far in the opposite direction it's pathetic.
I had the holiday off, but regardless, it would've been nice for the company to go a little above the menial gesture of providing a meal for pilots who had to work over the holiday.
A nice, hot buffet served by a manger from the chief pilot's office would be much more genuine of gesture as opposed to a brown bag filled with a constructive-engagement turkey and good faith mashed potatoes. Granted it is the thought that counts, but sometimes it's also the degree of effort.