Originally Posted by sarcasticspasti
And another thing while you've got me p!ssed off. Why is it a free market attitude is a "kool aid drinker" but all of you communists who toe the union line are not? Name a successful ALPA airline. You can't. Oh wait, Mesa, but everyone loves to crucify them for not demanding 18 days off a month and $75k starting FO pay.
With executives coming from so many different universities, personal backgrounds, and work experience, why is it that NONE OF THEM CAN MAKE AN ALPA AIRLINE PROFITABLE? Are they all idiots? Or is it the monolithic ALPA that demands impossible wages, work rules and scope? ALPA's motto should be "everyone's stupid but me!" You communists are the cool-aid drinkers.
I'll ask you an easier question. Name a profitable union INDUSTRY! You can't. Unions may have had a place when 12 year old kids were working 80 hours a week in coal mines but no more.
If blacksmiths had a union we'd still be riding horses to work.
America gives you the opportunity to seek any other career you wish, or even another employer who may pay you more to fly. Go find them, don't kill Delta and take tens of thousands of Delta and Regional jobs with you.
Easy there buddy, running a little low on ritalin are ya? Are you one of those guys that will tell me with a straight face that "when a company makes a profit it is because of the management team, and when a company is losing money it is because of labor"? I thought so.
From your reasoning only about 10 people in any corporation deserve to make any money; the CEO, COO, CFO and their closest managers. If that is how you truly feel, you picked the wrong career. You should be one of those guys, as a matter of fact it is not too late yet, go back to school and get your ******* degree and sign up. I am sure there would be room for more psychopaths like you in Americas corporations.
I, for one, don't need you to preach capitalism to me! I know what capitalism is about; the airlines want a skill, I have it, they pay the price we (unions) set. That is capitalism dillhole! You need to start thinking like a capitalist. You are the one thinking like a communist. A capitalist considers what's in it for him without killing off the corporation (much like a successful virus or parasite). A communist considers what's best for the collective (corporation) without much regard for him/herself. As a capitalist it is your duty to charge a corporation for your services. Do it!