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
just out of curiosity, why is (10%) hardship for the senior guys unwarranted… But for the junior group (which contains a lot of guys and gals in their 40s and 50s, not millennials), divorce, uprooting your family, etc a right of passage? Why do you feel that the senior group should not suck it up and just figure out their 10% pay cut? when does one earn the right to feel entitled to what they have VS embrace the suck? 50% seniority? 30%?
There were undesirable, but well paying flying opportunities post 9/11 and in the housing crisis recession. I don’t really see that happening in the travel industry during this recession.
if you view junior pilots on any seniority list as simply job protection for senior pilots, I think then maybe you have a different definition of unionism than most people