Originally Posted by
Guppydriver95
It’s really quite simple. Just like Herb Kelleher said years ago. The company takes care of its people. They in turn take care of the customers. Then profits take care of themselves. United trying to reinvent the wheel is a losing battle.
Bingo. And the new guys wonder why the old guys are cranky. Each new management loves to reinvent the wheel and prove the previous team all wrong. They squander millions and employee goodwill while taking bites out of the current contract or delaying the next one because of this or that emergency. Meanwhile, a big chunk of gullible pilots complicates the simplest of things so they can then assume (or direct) some of the blame on their fellow pilots. It appears to me that some of the smartest guys in the room are also some of the most easily bamboozled by the "suits and metrics" crowd. And then they become one of the suit's more powerful tools when they start directing blame at the wrong guys.
WTF? Stop saving the airline already. It will survive or thrive irrespective of your best efforts. Just fly the jet and go home already.