I'm not sure if I'm ready to make "constructive engagement" a scapegoat , however you would even define that anyway.

I just think the company is better at negotiating than we have been on most things. Part of it is that we get so spooled up over a million issues anytime we negotiate that we spam ourselves. This 117 thing was almost entirely about reserve work rules, and most of that boiled down to two issues; day one report and long call length, both hinging on the need to find a solution to the 3 hour notification requirement that no longer meshed with the FAR's.

So we took the primary issue and tried to make it about rig pay, 330 bunks, CDO's and open time assignments. In the end we ended up with the same long call length, a revolutionary industry wide fantasy (from a management perspective) concept of binding notification from first voice mail attempt and day one reports 2 hours earlier than what even the company attempted to impose.

The company went in there in an absolute major league jam and walked out with an incredibly friendly solution with some mind blowing little embedded victories and it only costs them $40million. We were just out matched.