Originally Posted by Grumble

Wow.

The self entitlement on full display here is nothing short of staggering.

If you're a post SLI hire, and you didn't prepare for a furlough, that's on you. You're not entitled to a GD damn thing and the senior pilots who've spent most of their careers recovering from their own furloughs, pension losses, esop, bankruptcies, etc while also providing for their own families don't owe you a GD thing... But for the past decade have provided a contract for you with industry leading pay, opportunity, and most notably new hire pay and benefits. Plenty of history out there if you were willing to absorb it and plan ahead.

Don't come back with "well this is unprecedented." It's always unprecedented. Every down turn is always worse than the one prior. It's your turn in the barrel... suck it up and take it like a professional. In 10-15 years, after we've recovered, and you've been back, and we go through this boom bust cycle again you can yell at all the young kids about how hard you had it and it's their turn but to expect those above you to make unprecedented sacrifice because you weren't ready, and to then call them greedy, is the ultimate display of hypocrisy.

Signed,
A junior group furloughee