Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
You MAKE time before your report. If you need coffee to function in the morning then the flight can leave late. IMSAFE
I’m so ******ing tired of this get the mission done at all costs mentality at SWA. I brief my entire crew that we cover each other’s asses on food, rest, physiological needs, etc and if we leave late because of it then so be it. Surprisingly, some of the responses I receive are as if I’m crazy for even suggesting that we delay a flight because of these basic human needs.
Just got into it with a gate age…..er “ops agent” 🙄in PHX because we had a plane swap and the FO and I went off to get food. She literally lied to scheduling and I called her out on it in a tactful but GFY kind of way, basically telling her that we don’t get crew meals, nor is there actual “real” food on the corndog airplanes so we need to go take care of food and bathroom breaks at some point in the day.
Does anyone have any friends at FedEx or UPS that can recommend me? I’m so done with dealing with FA drama, crowded terminals, diversity and inclusion, ground ops bu!!$hit, rampers with major attitudes, death by RBFs, tech debt, a “laser focused” and “right where we want to be” operation that’s in complete shambles, making “sorry about the Wi-Fi not working” PAs, and having a woke CEO that’s more concerned about apologizing about his “bullet points” than the operation that is crumbling around him.
What a freakin’ clown show this airline is.
I mostly agree with you. The only thing is that there are SO many battles to fight that, speaking for myself, I have driven myself, and probably others, crazy trying to fight too many of them. This place is not going to change culturally in any significant way for a very long time.
I could spend all of my time, and I have done so for periods in the past, trying to take a stand, but it is genuinely pointless. It’s way too stressful and crazy-making.
It’s like the little Dutch boy trying to plug 10,000 leaks in the dike with ten fingers and ten toes. It’s like a zombie movie - no matter how many zombies get killed, they just mindlessly and relentlessly keep coming.
Take the RLA, for example. As anyone who has spent any time here knows, that’s kind of my topic. It’s so utterly clear to me that we could leverage the RLA to our benefit. But the culture here is simply shut off to the idea. No matter how much evidence is provided to contradict the myths that prevail about the RLA, our pilots simply don’t want to believe it. It’s just not something that’s going to change. It’s like trying to convince a flat-earther to sail past the horizon. And that’s just how it is here in a bazillion other ways. It’s frustrating but fighting it is just tilting at windmills.