Originally Posted by
SpreadEagle
Why not furlough? I mean if we are so severely over staffed here at envoy why not cut the fat? If we only need 1500 pilots and are sitting around 2100 ish why keep paying people to sit around? Did big brother tell us not to furlough so we can't have 100% of the AA class slots? Why the _ _ _ _ are they keeping pilots here on crappy pay scales and terrible QOL then? Cutting 600 reserve pilots sure makes way more sense than paying all those wages/benefits/taxes/etc. Envoy isn't even allowed to manage itself, there are so many restrictions imposed on us by big brother there really is no need to have any mangers with the exception of what's required by the operating certificate. There is so much organizational dysfunction in the middle and upper management ranks, we basically work under a bunch megalomaniacal sociopaths.
They absolutely enjoy tearing apart their employee groups and turning them upon one another, it's a sick game to them, AND THEY LAUGH ABOUT IT! You wouldn't believe the amount of callous, childish, and condescending remarks made of the pilot group while in earshot of upper management and their middle managers. They don't respect you or your professionalism as an aviator, they don't GAF if you saved lives or prevented a major catastrophe. You are viewed as a cost and a liability to this organization. The only "gets," are made for when it makes productivity and efficiency better for them.
The company has no reason to be hiring anyone right now, they should be furloughing. Don't talk to an Envoy recruiter, find a few regular line pilots and get a copy of our contract. AAG is only giving us snippets of flying until PSA and MESA catch up with their training or until they screw the pooch and cause a loss of life accident that would make them a higher liability(cost) to utilize. Even if all these 1000 hour TPIC wonders kill somebody, as long as it's still cheap AAG won't GAF.
Right now 4-5 year FOs and CA are commuting the day prior and after to reserve and hard lines. Max days off are 11 for reserve and now pretty much most hard lines are below 72 hour min guarantee with a max of 12 days off unless you are senior. 50%-60% of the pilots for the ENTIRE airline will be on reserve in August. Right now there is no hope and no future for this airline until we LOSE another 600-800 pilots. After we shrink that much we'll have moved through enough 16 year plus CA that the upgrade times may start dropping. Don't expect much movement here until 2017. By that time all those new hires at PSA and Mesa will have upgraded and collected their 1,000 TPIC and flowed to AA ahead of us (due to their MEC negotiating a new flow through deal with AA), or the little tykes will have moved onto at least one of the big four.
Do your career a favor and let this ship sink until the bilge pumps kick in. The upgrade/flow through wave is nowhere on the horizon or registering on the radar/sonar/seismograph/whatever. AAG will need us around in the future for leverage against PSA, Mesa, PDT, AWAC, XJT, SKW, RAH, and whoever else they need to whipsaw in the future. So if your qualified and looking for a job now, go somewhere else, otherwise if we're still around in 2017 this might not be a bad place, because there won't be enough around to remember all the times AAG took us to poundtown on the f*!& truck!