Originally Posted by
TED74
Don't be a dummy. I was an early adopter of the single breasted jacket, and am probably as anti-management as one can be - which is just as irrelevant the totality of your comment. You can feel free to put something in quotes that has no connection to what I said if it helps you make a pseudo-witty post, but I'd encourage you to use your brain a little more and consider reading posts you want to comment on.
I don't want my reps wasting thier limited time/energy/budget trying to make pass travel "fair" for our work group plus the 85,000 other employees the company would feel obligated to include. It's not possible - not because it's not how we have always done it, but beause precedence is real and changing the policy mid-stream is complicated. Some families have eight kids. Some have none. Some families have three Delta employees but get the same benefits as a family with one. Some employees haven't had living parents for decades, others have had four for decades. Some employees had kids who died and now have grandkids. Personally, I think adding tens or hundreds of thousands of additional eligible pass riders into the mix is a bad idea. That why I, you know, shared my opnion about what I do and don't want my reps to advocate for.
Any chance you have an opinion on the subject at hand? Care to add anything meaningful to the conversation? I thought that's what food for thought was. If the poster wants "food for supporting my opnion" he or she can just ask for that. If you don't like reading contrarian views, the internet is an odd place to spend your free time. You might be better served by gooning more instead.
I don’t think I was the one belittling a new idea for tweaking non rev benefits by condescendingly telling them life isn’t fair. Now I will admit that usually I agree with much of what you post. I just really hate when someone is condescending, particularly when they imply the issue is nuanced and difficult so we should just not try.
I for one like nonrev benefits but also admit they feel watered down and would probably put it in top 5 of issues to at least spending some time on in the next contract. One of the four pillars, no but it’s something I’d like to be looked into. My opinion would be to get annual spirit passes for at least employee plus one, have them bank so people with larger families can use it but less often.
Guess I need to go write a proposal to fix the ADA now since we are spitballing ideas about non rev change on the internet.