Originally Posted by
WaterRooster
I was junior Left seat. I really did enjoy it here and I think in the end I would have been happy but it was a “what’s best if the family” decision. I’ll be based at home on the west coast. Other then that I was starting to struggle how the company squeezed its pennies. No catering, potable water is ok to drink and then lately the sick call memos/section 19’s and closing ORD which seems to be nothing more then vindictive. I’m probably leaving one devil for the other but at least I’m going in with eyes wide open.
What I’m going to miss are the crews. There is no denying that this pilot group was one of the best groups I have ever flown with. Management though… Ugh….
Thanks for that. It definitely sounds like you made the right call if you’re a west coaster and I wish you the best of luck. If I lived in a junior base for UAL I’d have probably left myself. Unfortunately for me, ORD isn’t particularly junior over there. From the sounds of it, I could have either QOL or money, but not both, for quite some time if I made the switch. So, for the sake of my family, I probably fall into the category I talked about above: Left seater who talks about leaving, but probably never will. I figure that I’d rather dance with the devil that I know rather than the devil that I don’t. IF those rapid upgrades were to stop for whatever reason, I would have to be a 7-8 year widebody FO just to break even with where I’m at now.
At least in this hiring environment, if I go down with this place like I was clinging to the Titantic, I should be able to find another job pretty quickly. Haha