Originally Posted by
SevereClear
Union this, Union that...you people make me sick.
When did you wake up one day and decide that you'd want a "representative" to "represent" you? Here's an idea: Go knock on someone's door and have a civil conversation. Or can't you speak for yourself?
But, hey - go ahead and hide behind the yoke...that'll get a lot accomplished.
You people have no clue how good you have it. You get to wake up in the morning, be around aircraft all day (even if it is at the FBO on standby) and then you get to fly at FL410 with the best view in the house.
Go work in an office for a day with no windows.
There are people in this world that will never have the opportunity to do what you're doing. None of them will ever be able to flip through their logbooks one day and remember all the great places that YOU HAVE BEEN! You travel the region, the country, the world...some never get to leave their hometown's backyard.
Being a pilot used to be - and still is - a very honorable profession. Nobody forced you into this field...you CHOSE it because at one point you loved it.
Some of you CLEARLY don't.
Severe Clear, you sir are the type of person that explains just why unions exist. This is your first post (i wonder if you will ever come back here again) and you start barking like some ghetto trash dog? Your argument that we hang around airplanes all day long and fly at FL410, and see the world? Clearly you are as misinformed as you are diplomatic.
You speak of working in an office with no windows as a direct opposite and a hell as compared to the heaven and nirvana that is the most honorable and profession pilot.
Where that supposed lowly person works, he goes home to his family every night. He doesn't miss birthdays, he is there to be a husband and father every day and night. He has no idea what skype is or knows what cities or countries are in what time zones. We do what we do for many reasons, each person has a different one, but while the pilot is away at FL410 or in Los Angeles Sheraton with 8hours from cockpit back to cockpit to do it all over again, that office warrior is sleeping in his own bed.
Whether in an office or a pilot, each is entitled to further pursue his professional goals with or without the help of organized labor. Am I for a do-nothing insanely high paying union job?....no.....but if I am going to be away from my family and in my contract it states that I owe 16 days of work and the company tries to force me to work 18 and I don't then I get fired! A union is there to protect you from this and get you your job back when idiots decide to ignore work rules at a whim.
If you truly don't understand aviation and or unions in aviation, there are many on here, me included, that wouldn't mind educating you on any particulars.
If your post was made as a malicious attack with no intentions of contributing to meaningful dialogue......then you have just totally inserted your foot in your ass then in your mouth by proving to everyone that you just can't have meaningful dialogue with every single person.
Have a nice day in your cubicle, and when you go home read your children an extra story tonight for every pilot who isn't home to read to his own.