Originally Posted by
DeadHead
If you care so intently about your family and friends, perhaps you should have managed your personal finances better. If foregoing an 8% raise places your loved ones in a precarious financial position then then you have no one to blame, but yourself.
A word to the wise.....Incongruent hypothetical arguments prove a meaningless point.
Whereas, turning down C2015 cost the pilots group over $1.1 billion that will never be recoverable....is no different than saying.....accepting C2012 cost the pilot group an additional $1.1 billion that could/should have been negotiated and will never been recouped.
Side note....Most pilots don't feel the need to defend their self worth, but if you are truly a pilot, then what is Vzt Speed?
I really am a pilot but have no idea what Vzt is and forgot the spin BF years ago, thank God. Also being a new hire I didn't have a vote so I was just an interested bystander. But when it came to the money in TA15 it appeared to me (and Wall St.) to be a self funded raise. That being said it would be a no anyway, because that is just stupid. It's not like we are hemorrhaging money and headed for BK.
I think the 8/6/3/3 would have been fine if the PS was left alone. If they want to get away from PS then just give us an 15% raise PLUS 8/6/3/3. That is a called compromise, it's not all about concessions.
Just an opine from a probie, just saying.