I don't want to quote your whole post, but you are absolutely correct ORDinary.
I have intentionally cost this company far more in Jet-A then they gained by cutting my pay rates from the post-bankruptcy Comair II imposed contract. Employee morale matters whether they like it or not. The fact he even wants to argue semantics about WHY we were threatened with liquidation over a couple dollars an hour block cost difference shows how blind they are in being unable to see the forest through the trees.