It truly amazes me the Battered Wife Syndrome alive and well at Southwest. Management laughs at them, they mock them, they encourage the “warrior spirit” then dilute every single benefit they get yet these pilot keep smiling going the extra mile. It’s the wife that gets hit with an uppercut a few times “Oh he still loves me, he cares. He is just frustrated because it is outside of his control. He will not do it again. It’s my fault” stop deluding yourself.

Just like that lady who finally leaves her abusive husband, sometimes you have to step back and take a small financial hit in the short term to gain long term rewards. Stop Bob from abusing you, he doesn’t love you, he mocks you. Gary likens you to a plumber and yet OT is picked up. [MOD EDIT]

Southwest is the enemy, treat them as such.