Originally Posted by
baseball
Well, That's your opinion and you are certainly entitled to it. While I do wear my ALPA pin, I have seen an up-tick in L CAL pilots who are now throwing them in the trash after years and years of proudly wearing them. This entire process and absolutely decimated any feelings of goodwill, and unity that were on the horizon for us. It's people like you, a young padoin learner who has yet to master the ways of the force who needs a lesson. Perhaps you should ponder Master Yoda: Fear is the path to the dark side, Fear leads to anger, and anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering.
Clearly you are suffering from the brain surgeon mindset with your "I am the gift to commercial aviation" mindset. The "all about me" syndrome is something for sure CAL never invented. We were kicked around by Debbie McCoy and Fred Abbot way too long to buy into your garbage. Meanwhile, while you're in your surgical suite....... You get it don't you? Probably not.
The pin means absolutely nothing if "fair and equitable" aren't really taken seriously by all players. You got yours right. Attaaaa-baby!
So I am the brain surgeon because I've taken personal responsibility to manage my expectations, shed my grudges, wear my ALPA pin and unify with
ALL pilots? (except you know who
) Do you even understand what you type?
They only tactic left is for me to 'pretty please beg you' to unify. Should I have to do that to a highly trained professional who has the emotional stability to operate a high performance jet under stressful conditions?
Let me know if you need the codling and special ego maintenance? I mean, really, think about it. Here we are... two equal pilots. But here I am taking a role to get you from a me, me, me place to a unity place. Reconcile the origins of this social dynamic....
There are two things the Slick Ties need to reconcile.
1. Your expectations were poorly managed. C-ALPA did a number on you. They did a horrible job educating you on the process. The CAL ISL proposal as outrageous as it was had an effect that lingers. Consider if the CAL ISL proposal stapled every UAL pilot, that would factor in your thinking when the real final list came out. Think about it.. if I told you that you'd get $1000, and you end up with $100, of course you'll have a problem. That's human nature. But was the $1000 realistic??
When pilots from both legacies run the ISL through the educated process, the "I got screwed" guys look silly. How long do you carry this burden to management's benefit?
This is something only you can do for yourself.....
2. What kind of next contract do you want? Couple choices here:
a. You can pout and disengage and when the next UPA doesn't meet your (mismanaged) expectations again.. you can justify your disunity and bad attitudes. Good on ya!
OR
b. Do you want to unify and show D-ALPA how much better we can do? Is your ego more important than better pay, work rules, etc?
The other day... two slicks ties walking to gate. They know the slick tie is a FU to every United pilot who puts the group ahead of ones self. Yet they still expect some sort of esprit de corps... shared values, etc... After the meaningless chit chat... "Where are you based?" IAH. I knew that but asked anyway. Don't worry... could've been EWR. Oh but they do love the UPA and the work rules and pay it brought.....
And the choice is made... should they be chided for being offensive? Or does their offensive behavior need to be overlooked in the hopes they will come around. Who is the brain surgeon now?