Originally Posted by
Smooth at FL450
Yup, I picked up on those comments as well. What’ll be interesting to watch as these next few new hire classes start is whether the company can even hire as many as they want without raising our rates. If the trend from the last 2 classes continues, I don’t think we’ll need to worry about them over-hiring anytime soon.
Quite possible and actually more than likely that the poor turn out of new-hires continues. However, them not being able to over-hire doesn’t negate the fact that we need a drastic increase in TFP rates.
Here’s another reason why. What if during the next contract cycle we are in an abysmal economic environment and they flat out refuse to agree to any significant increase in rates? What do we want our starting position to be? What we vote in now (whenever the hell “now” ends up being) is what we might have to live with for a long time to come. The country is being ran into the ground. We better make some large gains while we still have the leverage.