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Originally Posted by FangsF15
When I got hired on the -88, it had a TON of curmudgeons. The category was notorious for them. I used to wonder, "what happened to you? How did you become this way?" This is the best job in the world, and pay per effort is astronomical.

Then I got educated on the history, and experienced tons of it personally. And now I understand...

But I appreciate Joe Bauers' point. Know the line between management and the customer. And definitely don't let righteous indignation for the former bleed over into your interactions with the latter, nor let it bleed into your home life.
That's a part of what is so frustrating. By and large this pilot group would be willing to go above and beyond to extrordinary lengths if we had a management team who ran a competent operation and treated the pilots with honesty, dignity, and respect. The problem is they are just looking at us as costs on a spreadsheet and can't calculate an ROI on treating us like professionals. Case in point - when they yanked PB day washing, all they saw was the straight dollar savings they were getting in payroll reductions. This summer we will have WB and NB flights cancelling because reserves have lost a major incentive to come in on their days off and salvage the operation. They'll see the costs in delays/cancellations and whatever other associated costs those items incur, but they won't connect the dots to see that their earlier PB cost savings are causing these future cost increases.
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