Originally Posted by
NewGuy01
You’re putting a lot of words in my mouth. Changing careers takes time. The difference between an EIL and LOA is massive. I never said a peep about fair. I just said that it’s a shame furloughs are being talked about again for next year. I lost a job opportunity due to the company not awarding EILs to the pilots that applied despite there being a 45 day return clause. Hindsight being 2020 should I have taken the LOA, absolutely. Repeated company messaging about far more awards than posted will be offered got me. My bad.
It’s also odd that because of the way they were bid and the system bid that followed immediately after there are pilots jr to me that are on an EIL, in my base. I thought seniority was everything but I have a mixed 91/121/135 background and it seems like there is an exception to every rule. But you’re the one touting seniority and how I’m jr...
Changing careers takes time you say? Well you’ve already said you were a trained EMT prior to this so you’ve done it already once so what’s so difficult about doing it again? Surely you’ve learned how to do it. Secondly you said that you expected QOL to be degraded big time due to Covid which isn’t wrong and then you posted that you were going to bid for all lengths of EIL’s. Going back through all your post history it paints all the picture I need to see. You’re not happy here, you’re not happy with how the EIL’s were awarded but the fact is they were awarded in seniority order per base. What can you be mad about? Honestly? You’re just mad you didn’t get your way fine but don’t sit here and complain that the company did something wrong. I get it you wanted an EIL to go get some “good job” and double dip and you couldn’t, well if it’s so bad here just quit and go be an EMT again there’s plenty of jobs in that field and that’s coming from someone who’s on an EIL and got a couple different jobs and quit them immediately. There’s almost nothing as good as being a pilot even on Alaska’s worst day sitting short call PM reserve getting called out for red eyes. If that sounds so awful to you maybe find another career.