Originally Posted by
ipdanno
WM, instead of thanking Gary and SWAPA for your current position/condition, you could more accurately thank your MEC, no?
You DID take a seniority hit, and temporarily lost your captaincy, and that's rough. By one year from now, your fellow former AT captains will be bidding for the left seat at WN. You haven't been banned from Captaincy.
No. I don't blame my MEC at all. I blame my MC to a large extent, and SWAPA and SWA who were in cahoots on a plan to threaten us with "non-integration" should the SLI go to arbitration. Let's not try once again to spin this back to the MEC. For the most part they did as I asked them to, especially with regard to sending that first POS back without a vote. It was insulting to say the least.
As for reupgrading in 2015......not a chance in hell. After being in the left seat for many years, it's going to be several years before I can even hold it again and about 15 years before I get back to my original relative seniority under a scenario of hiring only for retirements (0% growth).
In fact, I'm now grouped in with original SW FOs who were NOT EVEN HIRED AT SW WHEN I FINISHED UPGRADING AT AIRTRAN. Anybody have the audacity to tell me I have no right to be livid about that?!