Just about as amazing as the guy who is outside of the glass looking in. the same guy looking to break the glass because ALPA treated him so unfairly and won't let him use 100 percent of his Arbitrator given seniority.

right.

Your reality is based on your perceptions. It's your combined experiences both good and bad that color your view of the world. That's why there are liberals and conservatives.

Here's another way to look at this. I know lots of people who didn't want to interview with United in that golden 1997/98 time frame we are talking about right now. "The 1400" is roughly those folks that we are sort of discussing here in this dredged up debauchery. Folks didn't want to go there for different reasons. One is their culture there and another was all the lawsuits and forced hiring of minorities and women. So, for whatever reason, and folks had them, some decided to go to Continental simply because of the age demographics of the airline. Guys were upgrading in 2.5 years there. That's regional Captain upgrade time. We had G number dudes upgrading in nothing flat if you wanted the 737 CA seat in EWR. So, the growth potential of the airline was huge. The upside of going CAL and the long term career benefits made it very appealing. Ordinarily the career would average out to about 9 million dollars in standard earnings with a 15 year upgrade time. These dudes were able to up that to 14 to 17 million dollars by upgrading so fast, that's in 2002 dollars. That' pretty serious money in terms of both dollars and career expectations. No way anyone of those 1400 furloughed UAL guys had those sort of expectations. They were just trying to get out of Home Depot and put up their orange vest.

Understanding ones perceptions is an important concept to try and get. If you don't get it, then you really don't care about unity. I do get the other sides point of view. I am just tired of hearing about it every god damn day.