Originally Posted by
Barley
I think the best thing you can do for yourself, your family, and fellow crewmembers is to fill out applications and do your best to move on. I know not everyone is in a position to do this and completely understand that; however, for those that can the most effective way to improve your earning potential and happiness in the workplace is to reject continued employment under this silliness.
We are in a good economy. The company is reporting record profit margins. They're admitting that contract negotiations will be dragged on for years, building deterrents to basic healthcare benefits, asking new-hires to sign a $24,000 training contract, and making daily CBA violations. How do you think this will look in a bad economy? I hope I don't have to find out. I don't see this turning around. The only people that win here are the senior managers that cash-out after a liquidity event.
Barley, respectfully, I think this is an oversimplification. I'm not going to be a company cheerleader here, I'm disillusioned just like many other new-hires. But I also refuse to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Which is exactly what can happen if you attempt to solve the problem by simply going someplace else.
Nobody has any idea what things will look like in 20 years. You can project that you'll be much better off at one of the Big 3, or WN, or anywhere else for that matter. Yeah only until they adopt the Indigo playbook too, or worse you're furloughed for 8 years and find yourself right back here. It has, and can happen again, I don't care how drastic people say the pilot shortage is, or how great the economy is. Yawn! These things turn on a dime!
For me personally my life is so much more than where I punch the clock. I'm never going to trust Frontier, or United, or any corporation to take care of me because it is foolish to do so. Does this thinking play into their hand? Maybe, but they already hold the winning hand - always have - as does every company and you know it. Does this mean I won't fight tooth and nail to preserve and make better what we have. No, of course not, I'm ethically bound to do so out of pure self preservation, and you can always count on me in this regard, I promise. But people have choices, either stay or go. Neither is right or wrong, they are neutral, and they balance on a very personal / subjective fulcrum. Hopefully they are not made with shortsighted emotion.
PS, I still haven't made my choice
