Originally Posted by
wmupilot85
Actually, they don't want to. They want to bring the upgrade time down to attract more people here. If we shut down, they don't have jobs either.
The problem with the summer months is the summer schedule. We need FO's online before pulling FO's offline to train as captains. It takes 2-3 months to train a FO. It takes 2-3 weeks to train a captain. The new hire classes have been much higher than they were before LOA 14 and 15. if we can continue to attract new hires, they will not cancel it. Hopefully, things will take its course by then and we won't need it anymore as the natural progression of upgrades will be back to normalcy.
You've got to be someone from the recruiting department. It's funny how union reps have a completely different picture than recruiting minions. I'm constantly hearing two completely different stories.
I know you are just doing your job and I apologize for crapping on you. However, at what point do you give up the act and stop trying to sugar coat the regional model that no longer yields a place to come work, stay and earn even a fraction of what a 200K asset should in this economy?
Tell them the truth. It's gonna SUCK. Upgrade takes forever. You're going to become a little bitter after five or six years. The trips are lame. Plan to defer your student loan payments for the entire time you work here.
That way, "if" upgrades ever come down and "if" XJT grows into a healthy competitive employer, it will come as an unexpected surprise.
I'm sure at least 51% of the people that read this post have been promised or told to expect something that never materialized. And that promiser had everything to gain by creating artificial expectations.