Originally Posted by
word302
Really? Were people really running around screaming the end is nigh? Spirit would still be operating today if it weren't for the current state in the ME, which is 100% self-inflicted by the current administration.
Originally Posted by
MaxQ
(I should know better than to engage with you, but humans are more emotional than wise)
"Furloughs or no furloughs".
While technically having ones employer cease operation isn't a furlough, it certainly achieves the same result.
The number of people at Spirit was around 17,000, was it not? (And probably thousands more to come as the Spirit shutdown ripples through its vendors)
It is actually worse than a furlough.
All vacation accrued gone.
All accrued sick leave, gone.
All accrued seniority, gone.,
So, for those who predicted furloughs, I would say they pretty much called it right.
I was at Spirit. I bailed when the court judgement went against the merger - on the advice of the senior CAs I was flying with. I understand and sympathize very much with those who had more seniority there than I did and opted to stay. They had more to lose starting over than I did. But NK went into bankruptcy TWICE in less than a year BEFORE the war started. And engine issues they couldn’t promptly address due to the engine manufacturers having used defective supply chains during COVID. Blaming this on Iran in the face of increased competition from the legacies, engine manufacturer problems, serious miscalculation by management and the DOJ as to its viability absent a merger leaves plenty of blame to spread around not involving anything having to do with foreign policy decisions one may or may not agree with.
Blaming “the current administration” is just a little simplistic.