Originally Posted by
GunshipGuy
Delta doesn't have to contribute to the 401k of military guys who are away from the job to work their military job, do they? Nor do they have to pay them a PS check, right? They do this to be nice? To be patriotic?
As a former military guy I don't see why they do that. It would seem to be an item one could put in the "pro" column for reasons to go back to do mil flying while holding a seniority number.
If the company doesn't like guard/reserve guys leaving after indoc/training they should take the either the 401k or the PS away since they're not working for it.
Any chance that as a former military guy, you're just sore it didn't happen for you? I think it's a nice way to say thanks...not a bad ladder to put down for those behind you even if you had to scale a wall without one.
More MLOAers than not are doing things worthy of appreciation and Delta in this case is doing something I personally support. My hunch is that these 401K and PS contributions are drops in the bucket compared to other money they are "wasting"...certainly it's more honorable than enriching their stock holdings' value with buybacks in the Billions.