Originally Posted by
fanaticalflyer
Andy you are spot on. The "Mitigator" and "Hummingbird" are clueless and naive. It took sometimes a year or two to get transferred. And if you wanted to get to IAD or DEN, that didn't happen for 5 years for some guys because how senior those bases were. SEA was the same. LAX wasn't too far behind as well. These new-hires have it made. I have to remind some of them that their 2nd year pay was higher than our 12 year pay. I'm happy for the new bunch in almost every way, except for the whining crap I'm hearing about how they have to work weekends, and holidays, and so on. It's like the entitled folks that don't want to go back to working in an office for two days a week, thinking they are remote-only folks. Be happy you got the job, and only have it tough for maybe a year or two at most, with every option available. Heck, many past new-hires didn't even know what reserve was, and i have to explain to them the importance of ensuring we have improved reserve work rules. Oh well, history repeats. Good deeds get forgotten, and folks, especially the younger ones, only vote only for themselves. I've accepted that reality.
If you think you hear "
whining crap" from the new bunch now, can you imagine what their perspective will be when things slow down and it goes back to historical norms? Then their complaint will be the same as now, "You sold us down the river".
"It was the best of times, it was the the worst of times", but the "aggrieved party" will chant the same mantra. The only difference is, the "new bunch" of today will be the "old heads"(5 years on property) of the future.
PS. Recently, it's been like warp speed . Pilots with 5 years at UAL(almost half of that Covid era) consider themselves "old heads" due to insane hiring(they are currently at 60%). Typically that took about half a career(15ish years). Percentage on seniority list is not synonymous with experience, wisdom, and "living the life". One minute in the ring with Mike Tyson typically isn't synonymous with 15 rounds of getting pummeled. BTW, I hope nobody gets "pummeled". The relative new hires have collected their guaranteed purse, I hope they don't have to step into the ring to learn 15 rounds of lessons the painful way.