Originally Posted by
baseball
I see.
They are on reserve. I am on reserve too. Not wearing any "legacy wings." I keep those in a desk drawer.
Lots of pilots on reserve again who haven't been on reserve since they were a new hire.
We had a merger. I think it was in the newspapers. Time to get over the "legacy this and that." I doubt seriously if the suits up there in Chicago or TK are wearing any legacy bell-bottoms or polyester leisure suits because they want to reminisce about the past. We pilots tend to take this stuff way too seriously.
We didn't get a vote on weather or not to merge. So who cares? It's a uniform. I don't control what color the paint job is on the jet and I don't control what uniform I get issued. I do care if the paychecks cash and if the cash is green. Thank God not getting paid in Russian Rubles.
Disco balls and bee-gees music for everyone.
I haven't run into the legacy uniform stuff myself but I think you have a good point here... Too many pilots' identity comes from their career and company they work for. The CEOs and executives often move to different companies all the time and for the most part it doesn't much matter which company they work for. Because of seniority, it's in our best interest to stay with one company for our career, which makes the company a more significant aspect to your life, whereas execs are free to move around as necessary and don't have the same incentives for identifying with a certain company. I'm not speaking out against the seniority system, it's just an observation and I think maybe has something to do with why some pilots may not want to give up their "legacy" wings. I agree with you though that it really shouldn't matter as long as the job fulfills your needs.