Originally Posted by
pilotpayne
Actually I’ll stick up for the guy.
He did like it here and when he joined he was definitely happy to be here.
I think like many as well as me it’s the disappointment of watching management waste the potential of this airline and doing everything they claim they don’t. I understand management does what they do, just tired of them pretending they are different. If you don’t like your pilots or for that matter lately anyone or anything that costs money just say it.
There is just no leadership or direction. That part is frustrating. I don’t agree with how he does it and I do think he can be a little bit over the top, but I see where he is coming from.
Joe is correct. When I started here almost 8 years ago I did like it, and defended it to some degree on this site, and took feces for it sometimes. I still like aspects of my job, but most of that is seniority based, and I would be professionally unhappy dealing with these "industry leading" pairings if I was much more junior!
But when I got hired here we were growing much faster. We had an annual pay-review that kept our rates within a few percent of the the top guys. We got paid 150% for everything above 78 hours per month. We had better health insurance. No dependability policy. Oh, and almost no-one else was hiring at that time.
Relative to our peers, we were much closer to career parity. But management took almost everything I liked about it here through unilateral cuts. Just send an email, and another good thing about JB was gone. Over and over.
I still have a great standard of living and have a fairly remarkable life outside of JB. But that doesn't mean I won't point out the idiocy and baffoonery of our current trajectory.