Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Slip, I've talked about this before here and on Poon. It's on you OG's to provide historical anecdotes so the newbies can form an opinion and vote accordingly. Here's the reality... we are one of the few, if not THE ONLY pilot group that allows probationary pilots to vote in elections or on any TAs or SLs. Good, bad or indifferent, it doesn't matter now... but remember, the newbies are waterboarded with Koolaid in GO, and if all they've got is smartass remarks from the likes of you, in their viewpoints you simply become a bitter old coot to be ignored when in reality, you have a lot to offer and educate if you would change perspective from constant putdowns of this pilot group to actually outlining the traps we fell into by voting in certain individuals, trusting Gary that "he'd take care of us come contract time" and then said "should have negotiated for it" and provide the comparison with how things were with Herb at the helm essentially outlining the trust issues.

You can do all this without putting down the 20+% of the pilot group who simply don't know what they don't know but have been exposed to Koolaid Kumbaya for months. You can rest assured that the newbies aren't being put down on a daily basis by CP and his people at the GO. Why should they listen to you when all you do is put them down? Stop! Tell them the stuff they haven't and won't hear in training. You know all this because you've lived it. You can look back and see the mistakes this pilot group has made. Keep pointing them out without condescension but matter-of-factly and give people a chance to hear a counterpoint to Koolaid Kumbaya.