I left recently as well.. lots of similar reasons for leaving.

This is a copy/paste of "list of reasons to quit" that I got from a friend who left recently as well. It helped push me to make the decision to bail too. He said "too much to fix" and I agree. No place is perfect but purple is deteriorating and it's simply not worth it to hang out and see if we can fix it.

Facilities awful - no pride in cleanliness or maintenance

• Toilets always broken
• Paper towel holders always busted
• Carpet always stained
• Faucets leaking for years
• furniture extremely worn
• Sleep room linens have holes and are nasty (stuck together *BARF*) even when “clean”
• Vacuuming in sleep rooms - not enough *barf*
• Airplanes were filthy
• Pack filters removed from planes
• Exposure to DG without premium pay
• Airflow MD-11 back to front, with DG behind you
• Hotel isolation for days and sometimes weeks on end - no extra pay
• Exposure to unknown anti-covid chemicals - no extra pay
• Insites left unanswered for months and in a few cases, years.
• No employee help text/call line
• No 24/7 contract enforcement
• IT is horrendous
  • KCM down for maintenance every Monday morning when you need it most instead of bringing it down at a sensible hour like Saturday or Sunday at midnight pacific time
  • VIPS always crashing
  • Have to pay for 3rd party app to view calendar in screenshotable format on phone
  • Need 3rd party app to make trip trading even somewhat doable

Substitution

• Seriously, wtf? 14 pages of language that benefits the company, and you can only get a hotel in base if you have dev funds?

Union (seems to be getting better, but we'll see)

• doesn’t even bother to negotiate for increases to anything that has a dollar amount
  • uniform allowance
  • international overrides
  • medical reimbursments
  • deviation expense allowances
  • nocat items
• doesn’t fight status quo violations
• capitulates early and fast during negotiations (2021/2022) and gets mad at us when we get mad at them for that
• constantly giving up work rules to help the company finance hourly rate increases.
• steady erosion of contract over time and nobody seems to care (fyigm)
• doesn’t file grievances
• doesn’t enforce contractual language (base replacement, seat selection fees, etc)

Expense reports

• also a huge wtf
• Money stolen from my paycheck for no reason
• Months if not years to audit, then suddenly just closed without audit - proof that they were just ****ing with us
• No appeals process
• Money stolen from my paycheck for scheduled layover hotels

Retirement

• no cash over cap? wtf?
• MBCBP insufficient replacement for $170k pension. Doesn’t even replace $130k pension
• FAE cap applied to MBCBP even though it shouldn’t be… wtf?

Pilot Culture

• lots of apathy, spinelessness, and "FYIGM" among our more senior crowd - glad these guys are the "silent" "majority" (aka minority). Huge shout out to the senior guys who voted no, you guys saved a lot of careers.

Work rules

• Company not penalized for base replacement/revisions/extensions/revisions
• Back end DH cancellation needs to cost the company more than just a few meager CH.
• R24 to R16 would have been much worse
• HSBY extension language much worse in TA2023
• 36 hour involuntary domestic extensions WTF
• 84 hour involuntary international extensions WTF
• they can extend you even longer if they declare an operational emergency due to their incompetence (with no penalty to the company for declaring operational emergency)
• No payback days (restored days off) for extensions
• 8 hour layovers ( should be 10:30 at minimum)
• Company can **** on contract by declaring operational emergencies, no extra pay for anyone who works during one.
• Unpaid time between hub turns with no per diem either
• Union gave up AVA because the company said its "immoral" for someone to clear their schedule and then work a trip at 150%, union didn’t ask for anything in exchange for this… wtf.
• No percentage cap on secondary lines (company can basically just cancel ALL the lines like they did in Nov 2022 and put everyone on SLG if they really want)
• No day-before reserve preferencing
• Reserve call out 1.5 (or 1.0) hours wtf
• No extra pay for airport standby
• Hotel standby can be added to a line-holder’s trip wtf
• Allowable rate for deviation hotel super low, good luck finding anything besides a motel 6 for the contract rate for that city.
• No contractual limits on “shotgun” type schedules from SLG or in built lines
• Commuter policy - only if the starts align perfectly for your commute situation, otherwise you're at the mercy of the DO or Fleet Captain.
• Company not required to credit dev bank with cost of ticket if purchased ticket is higher than baseline or established
• No FC deadheads unless over 5 hours block
• Most overrides only apply to scheduled, not greater of scheduled vs actual
• No pay for extreme sort delays
• No pay for laundry on long trips
• Airline miles/status/class of service not protected by CBA

Memphis

• pilots shot in crashpads
• extreme crime
• road safety is a serious issue driving to AOC
• no hotels, ground transport, or per diem for training
• Mediocre food options in AOC/AOTC cafeterias (when they are even open, which they’re not for weekends or night hub turns)

Pay

• extremely low rigs
• No AMDG or MDG
• No revision pay
• Company chooses when the pay clock starts instead of what it should be: door close and brake drop to brake set and door open.
• No profit sharing
• 15 year pay scale vs industry standard 12
• No pay for required drug tests or illness tests like Covid
• No redeye/night hub turn override
• No hazard pay for hazardous countries/regions (war, outbreaks, pandemics, hotel isolation, unrest, etc)

Scope

• ALPA national refuses to help us pursue UPS level scope
• Domestic wet-leasing needs to end. period. Let the company reactivate MD-11s and pay draft during peak if they need freight moved

Per diem

• none for out and backs or airport standby WTF
• No holiday pay
• Below industry
• No annual increase tied to inflation or at fixed rate even after contract expiration

Sick policy

• irregularity reports (what the ****)
• sick note requirements
• No transparency on sick policy point system

Training

• pay per day extremely low
• No pay for cancelled training (what the ****)
• No pay for 3in3 sim
• No pay for travel to 3in3 if not based in MEM (what the ****)
• TA 2023 only proposed pay for 3in3 if not paid for 3in3 in the last 90 days, which means you could easily be in a situation where you’re only getting paid for every other 3in3 even if you’re flying a full line
• Bid for a seat and then not go to training for years, don’t get paid until activated
• First year pay doesn’t begin until activated - doing IOE on training pay instead of getting paid for the trip you’re actually doing wtf
• No per diem during new hire training wtf
• No hotel during new hire training wtf
• No hotel during training for recurrent or seat change ITU wtf

Hotels - worse than RJ hotels

• bad locations
• Low rent hotels (courtyard Marriotts, Hyatt place, etc)
• Often sharing walls with low rent hotel clientele throwing parties
• No language prohibiting adjoining rooms
• No language prohibiting ground floor rooms