Originally Posted by
Archiee
No you are.
You fail to understand when people do things like this aka things that aren't their jobs you enable a culture where managers expect it. If he hadn't fed them it might have made the news as "united strands pax for hours with no food, congress to act". This is how changes are made, it is how the extended delay program came about. If every captain tries to save the world nothing changes. Do your job and only your job.
we are the glue that holds these failing operations together, maybe it's time to let it all fall apart. I do no favors and every decision I make so for my own benefit and no one else.
Originally Posted by
JFS 3
Absolutely. He's the problem, the reason for every single overreaction by the company. People buy tickets on United to go on honeymoons, get home in time to see their kids born, bury parents, bury children. It's embarrassing to know you wear the same ALPA pin as these absolute turds like Archiee.
Guys like Archiee, it's almost like they're on the spectrum; they can only see things through this distorted lens that the company is deliberately screwing up, and god forbid we lift a finger to help move the ball just over the goal line. When it's actually 100,000+ employees every day operating 2,000+ flights every day, and that operational friction will invariably occur.
You’re both right.
The company doesn’t fix anything, or really even notice unless it costs them money. If guppy pilots would run the damn APU and keep the airplane cool, maybe they’d do something about fixing the ground air. We’ve only been battling this problem for the last decade(s).
This situation however was a medical emergency/diversion that left everyone in a tight spot. No one failed at anything, it was just a feces sandwich and the Captain stepped up.