Originally Posted by 9thAmendment

In all seriousness management has run this place into the ground. They got way too carried away with cutting costs and this is the end result. Even for airline standards technology at SWA is from the Stone Age. The company relies heavily on people picking up OT to have a properly staffed operation in order to avoid paying more full-time employee benefits. Management has stalled on contracts for over half of the workforce which has people bailing for competitors at an unprecedented rate.

I wish I could say I’m confident things will get turned around but I’m not. Bankruptcy in the next couple years is definitely in the cards. The “culture” that made this place admirable decades ago is dead and cannot ever be replicated again.