Originally Posted by
LUVPLANES
B*ll sh!t statement of the year goes to oldmako. I had to pay for college myself including the flying portion. Twice I had to take a break for a year because I ran out money and did not have other options, but stuck with it and finished it. I did not have the privilege and comfort of having Daddy helping me, so it helped me build character, grit, determination to finish what I started and never gave up. Look around, this is a pandemic and jobs around the 70K are practically nonexistent so I’m glad the union is looking for a solution for the whole group. We’re a big family so the petulant brats will throw their tantrums but for the majority it’s the right thing to do. Hard dedicated professionals are about to lose an income to pay for their mortgage, food, insurance which are the minimum necessities and you worry about your buddy putting four kids in college because he wont work 120+ hours a month anymore! You guys were telling the potential furloughs to have a back up option, how about you take your own advices and look into back up options such as home loan of equity or tell your kids to get better grades for a scholarship, or may be they can become models for your future fishing pictures.
Actually YOU win the BS post award. We have a SENIORITY based system and we each predict our personal risk based on those rules. The rules that we ALL agreed to. Frankly it's none of your, or my, business how any pilot spends his/her money. I'm still going to keep an open mind here, but there is NO existing precedent that furlough prevention must be paid for by ALL pilots. My default position is follow the current contract. Emotional arguments like yours are not helpful to the movement to 'spread the pain' to save jobs.
We should all take a big step back and understand and accept that we ALL exist in a seniority based system.