Originally Posted by
CrazyEight
Can someone explain to me their personal reasoning for going to something like Velvet 360?
They steal money, abrogate seniority, pit other employee groups against us and violate the contract at will...
If you want to send a clear message, don't go, don't engage, don't respond to surveys, don't show up to base visits, none of it. Have self respect, that means stop entertaining antisocials. Show apathy until it is no longer warranted, it is really that simple.
CE Woolman, Bethune, Kelleher and Anderson were worth your time, our leadership and modern executive teams for that matter are NONE of that.
Fly the jet, go home. Enjoy family, close friends, hobbies and be thankful you aren't a M-F drone making 1/10th the money. You get one life, live it!
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If you bid reserve it’s actually a good deal. You can effectively plop it down in the middle of 5 LC days. Effectively 2 days of commutable “work” renders you useless for 5 potential LC days, and the way it works out is it adds 5 hours on top of reserve guarantee. The food is good, you can ask some pointed questions, you get a swag bag full of trinkets for the kids. I also arranged to go with a bunch of my old Air Force buddies so we turned it into a little reunion.
But to your point the whole thing was a little disorienting. Felt like a giant propaganda festival. It was clearly designed for the other employee groups. The 20 or so pilots there all kind of on an island. I went a few weeks ago and I can confirm the VPs are not happy with how things are regarding OOBWSs.