Originally Posted by Aquaticus

I am not emotional about potential furlough but I do know people have a long memory. When I was hired, they told us in indoc that we were going to quickly outnumber the old guard here and we (us and management) had a chance to change the atmosphere. With these continual blunders and us potentially furloughing more than American and Delta it seems like the next 30 will be just like the past 30. You said this was a numbers game but we got here from some pretty poor management decisions. 9 Billion in stock buybacks, opening/closing/opening fleets and bases within weeks of each other, current leadership not taking "salary" but still getting stock options, and their current blunder where they say to read between the lines of a staffing report displacing 4500 people and we go right along with them doing orbital decay calculations to figure out what it means.

Everyone has their own definition of operating efficiently. We have an entire fleet of people who think operating efficiently is refusing to start the APU more than 10 min prior and shutting down the packs on the parking checklist as soon as ground power is hooked up like Pavlovs' dog. They are baking 185 people in the back while they scatter off the airplane with the first 5 passengers. You can call me inefficient but that to me is just being a bad pilot. I think as United blunders through this recovery sending oversold rj's everywhere and coming to us with pockets turned inside out ... the employees have a long memory and any shot at redemption is getting tossed aside for short term savings.