Originally Posted by
Crjreg007
The company needed DECs because we grew so quick that we were in need of CAs. How would have increase pay to current pilots, which is what our whole argument is about, made it so we wouldn't have needed DECs? Does pay help new people get 1000 hours quicker? You say a good contract would have insured good movement. Think about what you're saying. PSA didn't have good movement? We had so much movement we had to hire DECs...
I like how in your early post you say any new hire that does any amount of research will see that PSAs contract is bad and then just now you say you didn't do your homework? You say I think new hires are stupid for going for a bonus and not a better contract? Did you not join PSA for as a DEC, which is a bonus for only new hires, with a bad contract? Are you the stupid new hires you speak of? Never once have I defended our contract. You would know that if you had read what I've posted but seeing as how you didn't read our contract I can't expect that can I. For the last time my argument is that management will not pay people like you more because they don't have to. I do not think our contract is good. Doesn't change the fact that pilots on property are willing to fly under it and not go to other airlines. We even have people from other airlines coming here, cough you cough. It makes poor business to pay our pilots more and AA won't do it is my only argument. Not that our contract is good or that the company is great.
Yes I am a stupid new hire. I failed to read the contract because I couldn't believe people would actually vote for something as bad as this. Thats fine it was my mistake. The position I was in at the time made PSA the best option at the time, again my fault not the companies. That does not mean I'm not going to try and improve things and that does not mean I won't come on here and point out the shortcomings of the contract to potential new hires and encourage fellow pilots to attempt to improve the contract. Meanwhile you seem to just want to encourage people to bend over and take it because thats what they signed up for, thats just a defeatist attitude.
At the end of the day I'm just here to get some PIC, after I get what I feel is enough I will go somewhere else that has a better contract and an easier commute. Hopefully that will be a legacy, if not I'll happily go to an LCC and get a new type and wait there. In either case I'm certainly not sitting around at PSA waiting for a 10 year flow under this current contract. Maybe if PSA wants to pay a little more and make the contract a little better I'll consider staying, but for now I'm not staying a day past what I consider necessary. So hey maybe you will upgrade someday, if the flow keeps up and more airplanes aren't deffered