Originally Posted by
CRJJ
Sorry about that, I thought faster than I typed apparently. Preventing a young FO like me from getting hired in the future by United. I just woke up one morning and this jumpseat war exploded on my face, and suddenly I (and tons of coworkers) read left and right that we gonna get blacklisted and that United could not be a future option anymore. How can you talk about 5200 pilots, like if you knew them all? Like we all got together and voted for this?. Some people agree some don't, but the consequences are gonna be the same. Do you know me personally? How can you say I'm unprofessional? I just wanna be a good professional pilot, and have a nice career. But all this is getting out of control, and it's not fair.
Don't worry about your career. Give some older and wiser heads at UAL credit for a little sense. No one is going to put any burden on the shoulders of a "young FO" like you for this mess. Hell, I was all spun up to start denying OO and RW jumpseat requests when I go back to work later this week, but then our MEC met today and basically told us all not to do that. So I won't. And in the end, I do see the wisdom in that.
The point is that while your (I don't know what to call it -- student council? pretend union?) whatever jumped the shark on Day 1 and told your captains to deny jumpseat requests, cooler heads at the UAL MEC have told us to not respond in kind for now. Extrapolate that more calm, level-headed approach to your situation and how you will be looked at later on down the line. No one is going to put any blame at all on a FO: you don't control the jumpseat, and everyone in this industry understands that.
My advice: show up for work, do your job, and don't worry about anything once those engines are shut down at the end of the last leg. That's the beauty of this career. Go fishing. Or whatever floats your boat. And I look forward to putting away a few cold ones in SYD or DSM or wherever with you someday soon.
