Originally Posted by
nene
Welcome to the reality of corporate America and being part of a large public corporation vice a smaller, leaner upstart. I’m cynical enough to believe that UAL and DAL did not avoid furloughs so far because of some “caring” about pilots but more so a hedge in case the demand does come roaring back that they will have a more immediate ready workforce able to respond quickly. So far that hedge has added costs to the bottom line but if demand does return in force they will be as ready as possible.
Yes. Smile. Duh.
For those of us who haven’t received the memo, we don’t really live in a “democracy” or a “democratic republic “. We live in a corporatocracy. Laws are made primarily by and for the sake of corporations. Citizens United anyone?
Perhaps for a brief, glittering moment sometime during the 80’s and maybe into the early 00’s, SWA sort of bucked that paradigm and rebelled against the system. Maybe. But, whenever it ended, that moment ended. It’s over. We’re just another corporation playing our part in the corporatocracy. And we have been for at least 10–15 years.