Originally Posted by
Wingtip220
Pardon me sir but who the hell are you to dictate what others should do. How many times on this damn site does this opinionated argument have to be brought up. If you want to punch out 65,60,55,35,29,23 do it nobody will beg you to stay. My choice, my life!! Your choice, your life!! There are pilots who are still actively flying their butts off to make back as much of their retirement that was obliterated thru recent bankruptcies and mergers. A lot of em didn’t have enough years left to recoup even a fraction of what they were promised for being a loyal employee for many years. There are families out there that lost a member due the numerous suicides that took place in the early 2000’s after losing everything due to pensions and retirement accounts being dissolved and taken over by the PBGC. Put yourself in the persons shoes who at 57 years old when the mandatory age was 60 leaving work one day knowing he has 2-3 million in a pension waiting for him only to show up for his next trip getting handed a furlough notice and oh yeah your only gonna get about 200,000 for retirement, thanks for your service. That entitled opinion of yours can go pound sand.
Nothing in your argument applies to the present day. The dudes that had to go out at 60 are all long, long gone. The situation at the time sucked. I was balled up in it (took a couple of 100% pay cuts) and yet I’m not whining and crying about the need to work longer.
The retirement age has been 65 for SIXTEEN years. Now select individuals want to change the rules they’ve been operating under for the last SIXTEEN years to suit themselves, thereby hosing everyone else's seniority for another 2. Nope! Thanks for your service and enjoy your retirement.