Originally Posted by hummingbear;[url=tel:3602525
3602525]Advocating a slowdown is a very poor idea. It’s illegal & will land you in a great deal of personal distress & accomplish nothing of substance on a large scale. What I don’t know if the company realizes, though, is that organic loss of enthusiasm is way more destructive than an intentional slowdown. An organized action can be turned off & on like a light switch. (Contract signed, everything goes back to normal immediately.) Employee morale? Once that’s gone, it’s gone.
Workplace enthusiasm is like a speed/drag power curve. Once you get on the backside of it, it becomes exponentially difficult to get it back. Scott would not be the first airline manager to lose the confidence of his pilots then lazily conclude that they’re just insatiable money grabbers when modest attempts to buy it back fail. We’ve all seen this movie before.
For the last couple years, all I’ve heard from this airline is how powerful & meaningful are personal touches from the pilots. Which, honestly, great- let’s be the customer service airline. But there’s nothing new or creative about wanting “Give A *******“ employees under DGAS conditions. Telling us for months that you’re planning to give us an industry leading contract in 2 weeks then finally making a mediocre offer & suggesting we’re not being reasonable is a major flub up. I think the “we are not close” statement was the beginning of a rapid drop in general enthusiasm, & honestly, I worry about where we end up as an airline if he hasn’t cleaned this up by the summer. A contract today would continue United’s meteoric momentum. A contract in a few months could just be a more expensive way to have p1$$ed off pilots.
Nailed it.
Herb Kelleher understood this, take care of your employees and everything else will fall into place.
Originally Posted by unstabilized;[url=tel:3602933
3602933]I feel like the same people that advocate for work actions are the same people that know nothing about the nuances of being tracked on the internet.
It shouldn’t even be a case of being tracked down and caught. The history of people doing such things and the damage it caused should be motivation enough to not engage in such behavior. In no way does it benefit labor and in fact has the extreme opposite effect.
You can be angry and we have a right to be, however professionalism is not letting that anger get in the way of doing your job (and continuing to demonstrate your worth and value add). The limits of that are a personal decision to each individual.
I will continue to do my job to the best of my ability with the upmost professionalism until ALPA officially tells me we’re doing otherwise.