Originally Posted by
Spudhauler
Two points.
One, if a person is furloughed, they have to take responsibility and change their lifestyle. Now, not beginning on October 1. Try like hell to avoid taking additional debt. I speak from personal experience.
Two, lowering the ALV will do absolutely nothing to reduce furloughs. It never has in the past. The company will do their best to figure out how many pilots they need to fly what marketing and network tell them, and furlough the rest, regardless of anything we might do. I hope that this thing calms and no one gets furloughed. It is traumatic as all get out and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, but us playing checkers for a couple months while the company is planning next year's chess moves won't really matter.
Oh my God, not another "chess not checkers" analogy. That canard is as old as a stale pop culture joke that was briefly funny in 2003.
I do agree with the "take ownership of your lifestyle."
A lot of you guys seem to take the attitude of, "the ship is sinking and I'm not even going to help bail because it's going to sink anyway." And for all the talk of "QOL" you read the past few years (almost a holy grail) when talk of being able to spend even more time at home with the family is discussed, albeit for lower pay (reduced ALVs) then it shows that all we really care about is $$.
.... I realize that what I just wrote was a bit too harsh. The company sniffed and said "so what" when we DID step in with the April bids and saved them $50 million almost instantly.
That said I get the impression that we are all a bit cavalier. This virus is to me like a roaring inferno that's already decimated my acreage and is swiftly approaching the house (that would be Ch 7 liquidation). We need to save the house. Once the inferno is past then we can once again argue over the upgrades we were discussing earlier. If the house is reduced to ashes then there's not much future upgrades to worry about is there?