Originally Posted by
Route66
I'm not angry. I'm really enjoying my job, I'm enjoying the pay and I'm really enjoying the self-imposed flogging the West continues to give themselves everywhere (including C&R) on the theory the LAA will have pity on them.
The PAY, BTW, that Kirby GAVE us that we wouldn't have had if the "just vote no jackrabbits" won out. The idiotic mou the APA negotiated behind our backs by going direct to US Airways mgmt. without speaking with us. The MOU that most likely will truly provide "fair and equitable" but will tick-off everyone else and further divide the idiot MEC that has NO CLUE what %5 profit sharing really means....given to us BY THE COMPANY. Something we NEVER had under the present contract.
I find it interesting you lement several aspects of what you see as divisive actions by others (APA, LAA pilots, West pilots), yet concurrently foster division of your own by once again making LAA pilots the bad guys and the enemy of all (while concurrently belittling the other segment of this 3-legged pilot stool). Obviously, you're miffed about why APA didn't embrace USAPA lovingly with respect, but considering USAPA's past, not just the Nic, but their multiple instances of intransigence and apple cart tipping pre-merger, during the merger and since the merger, it's understandable to do that would have probably scrapped the merger anyway and would have been pretty stupid. Hey, I wish they had been stupid...........well, OK MORE stupid and DID scrap the merger (or at least delay it until the equation was different and we didn't inherit Parker/Kirby), but that is water under the bridge now.
The insinuation that the MOU will prevent a "fair and equitable" SLI would indicate that the arbitrators are incapable of dissecting all information, claims and arguments making them, in essence, incompetent. There are obviously many emotional positions on this ominous situation, but all should be comfortable that whatever the arbitrators decide, it is them that is the fair and equitable standard and not the various integration committees or respective pre-merger pilot groups opinions. I guess the ISL will tell the story of whether the arbitrators got all relevant information to do that.
Originally Posted by
Route66
And here we sit debating what "occupational seniority" while the MONEY JUST KEEPS COMING. My definition of seniority is MONEY. It's what YOU wanted. Don't blame me you guys continue to do it to yourselves. BTW AT THIS RATE IM GOING TO CLEAR $300,000 this year. Thank you American.
For someone making $300K, I guess it's fun scoffing at the tedious concerns of those junior who don't make $300K, but I think that's in poor taste, not unlike the senior captain showing pictures of all his expensive flying, floating and dancing toys to the recent furloughed returnee with a decade of financial struggle and upheaval in his lunch pail. For someone who claims to be at peace, you still seem to carry a lot of baggage that you don't admit. But hey, since your definition of seniority is money, you should have no peccadillos with the ISL when it comes out as you already have what you need and it's coming from that which you respect, the company. Great, but you do realize that is the foundation of AAPSIC's model, that being the pre-merger then present and future projections (PMCE) are based on...............yup, you guessed it, M-O-N-E-Y, yes ?
Based on that then, you should be validating many aspects of the AAPSIC's integration model, but I know you have way too much indifference and anger for that and I assume you believe that all the "money" you now are making was brought BY you to the merger table and/or the altruism of your beloved management and had nothing to do with an entity or pilot group that you believe snubbed you.
Whatever gets you through the day...............