Originally Posted by
Spicy McHaggis
Sometimes it is. Doesn't mean it doesn't need to be improved, though. Would love to have work rules in place that actually made it somewhat senior. I'm hoping to see such things in whatever TA we get.
That being said, a buddy of mine bid NBCA at 100% and sat at the bottom of the BES for a couple of years *****ing about being at the bottom of the BES the whole time. What the hell did he think would happen when he's bidding a position that 8500 people ahead of him are avoiding?
Right.
What he likely thought would happen would be six months on reserve.
You never know when the music will stop. You have no control over how, when, and why the company staffs. You don't know the company's marketing plans and how far out they will shut that plan down and re-shuffle and realign the flying.
The fallacy we fall victim is this: ALPA tells us you will only be on reserve for a short time so suck it up butter cup.
That's not true.
We have several bases, two seats, and several airplanes. The logic that you'll only be on reserve for a short time is false logic. Just looking at my 25 career. Three different jets as F/O, three different reserve experiences. One jet as CA, but two reserve experiences, one pre-merger, and one post merger. By my Cajun math that is 5 separate times. So, I think we can de-bunk that false logic.
Geeks love PBS, it gives them something to figure out, something to dissect. If we put a bunch of computer loving techies in PBS committee who also see the company's logic and point of view, then we are screwed. We need some bulldogs in this area. I would prefer some non-techies who just want to enforce the contract and give the pilots full compensation value for their concessions that led to PBS being on property.