You have to drown out the few voices here that look for confrontation at every corner. Predominantly Spirit has amazing people working the line and all have been a pleasure to work with. I am proud to have this job and it is one that I worked to get even prior to the Covid meltdowns. I am new here, less than a year for sure, but even I agree that the vestment schedule is OK, however I do agree it should be on par with our industry standards. I am fully on board with needing to improve life for new hires as it will drive our growth, but keep in mind this is the same group of people that stacked our pay rates closer to the 7 year mark and beyond. It will take a change in thinking to get things done most likely, but I am optimistic for it. If we see upgrades approaching five years, something in the lower pay scales will need to change as it just doesn't make sense to earn 30k less a year than our peers, still have the same upgrade time and then make less than our peers again.

How we get this fixed is difficult to answer, but if we dont, I see little reason people would pick us over any of the others. We cant hang our hat on the old mantra of "qol, qol, qol" anymore as it has been proven that our peers can and do get more days off, with better pay. Anyway rant over, but I will add I am still super happy to be here and generally love coming into work.