Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Your error in Step 4 is your thinking that ALPA is your friends and co-workers. ALPA is a vendor. Nothing more. Some of your friends and my friends may work for the vendor, but they don't equate to the vendor.
Wrong. We are all ALPA. Those who work on our behalf, i.e., our "friends and co-workers, AKA reps, are ALPA. They are supported by, but do NOT "work for," others in the umbrella organization, which you call the vendor.