Originally Posted by
Southerner
My frustration with some of the rhetoric on here is that JetBlue management very clearly wants a certain kind of airline. And you guys are mad that the airline they want is different from what you want/expect. You're frustration is centered around that. You want to be more like Delta. JetBlue management wants to be less like Delta.
So when I say that you should apply to Delta if that's the case, it's not because I'm being snarky. I'm being serious. We aren't that. We never will be that. I hope that our pay, work rules, and benefits more closely align after the CBA, but we will still be an airline run by a management that doesn't want to look like a legacy carrier. So why not go where you seem to desire to be? Even if we get an industry leading contract, you're still going to be annoyed at the company when they send out communications that are typical JetBlue. Don't you want to work somewhere that you agree with philosophically, deep down?
So as I've said before, you don't have to hate JetBlue to want a good CBA. If you do hate JetBlue, I don't believe a good CBA will fix that for you, because it isn't the current contract that you hate.
And with that gentlemen, I'm out. If you want to talk with me, send me a PM. I'll even buy you a beer when you come through MCO sometime.
I think I'm speaking for a lot of us in saying that we wanted to come to JetBlue precisely because it
wasn't like Delta. But it doesn't take much time on the line to realize management doesn't treat pilots with the respect that they deserve (by a LONG shot), management doesn't actually believe in their culture and values--they just use them as a sham for self-serving ends--and, guess what? It turns out JetBlue isn't the anti-Delta after all. On top of that, we don't even get the pleasure of being compensated like our peers to make up for all the other shortcomings.
There are other corporations out there with similar "values"-based management strategies who *actually* believe in them and don't apply them cynically. They have great profit margins (sound familiar?) and compensate their workers handsomely with industry leading healthcare and wages (sorry that one probably doesn't sound familiar unless you chat with friends at other airlines). Must be nice to work for a company like that! If LSC decides not to abide by their values and invest in their employees, this place will be unrecognizable from any of the legacies in the near future. In which case, why even stay here? (You gotta wonder if everyone in OSC is blind to this fact from all the blue juice.)
I was already down in Orlando this year (the management visit to recurrent was incredibly pathetic
) but maybe next time around. Cheers mate.