Yep, you guys are right.
Southern is great.
No one has any complaints about the company. There is no problem here. Everything will always continue just as it always has.
SAI parked an airplane and subcontracted the flying to NAC just to share the bounty, not because conditions are so bad they can't staff the airline.
It is perfectly fine for a FedEx pilot to make twice what we do, doing the same job, on the same plane, flying the same cargo, to the same places, creating the same revenue.
They deserve it, but we do not.
We should all just move on if we aren't one of the 50 777 Captains at SAI. Get some fresh meat in here that isn't tired of abuse yet. Youngsters who think things will get better on the next contract if they just work hard.
Keep perpetuating wage stagnation at ACMI carriers. Keep downward pressure on FedEx and UPS pilot wages. Because Yellow, Brown, and Purple still compete for revenue, and Yellow has an advantage over
their peers, namely discounted labor compensation rates.
Actually we should all just give up any hope of anything ever getting any better. Because that would take a little bit of solidarity. And we are all individual independent contractors here, willing to undercut each other for momentary gain, even in the face of history showing that ultimately leads to long term loss.
Learned helplessness is a behavior in which an organism forced to endure aversive, painful or otherwise unpleasant stimuli, becomes unable or unwilling to avoid subsequent encounters with those stimuli, even if they are escapable. Presumably, the organism has learned that it cannot control the situation and therefore does not take action to avoid the negative stimulus.
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Learned helplessness theory is the view that
clinical depression and related
mental illnesses may result from a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation.
[2] Organisms that have been ineffective and less sensitive in determining the consequences of their behavior are defined as having acquired learned helplessness.
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Cognitive scientist and usability engineer
Donald Norman used learned helplessness to explain why people blame themselves when they have a difficult time using simple objects in their environment.
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The US
sociologist Harrison White has suggested in his book
Identity and Control that the notion of learned helplessness can be extended beyond psychology into the realm of social action.
When a culture or political identity fails to achieve desired goals, perceptions of collective ability suffer.