Originally Posted by rickair7777
SCAB: Technically, someone who crosses a picket line. But pilots who voluntarily fly for an alter-ego carrier like go-jets or the old freedom airlines qualify in spirit if not in the letter of the law. The alter-ego exists primarily as a mechanism to remove work which rightfully belongs to an existing pilot group which labored for years to make possible the growth opportunity that the scabs are taking advantage of. This benefits management because they can replace high-seniority pilots with low-seniority, lower-cost pilots. The scabs are selfish opportunists who are usually attracted to fast upgrades. What if every pilot workforce were replaced every ten years...that's about when you get a spouse and a couple of kids. Should management be allowed to get rid of you and replace you with twenty-something single people who can live on top-ramen?
According to your definition, that makes you my friend a scab too at one point or another in your life. Though true, for you to get your FO position (which later maybe turned to CA) somebody probably haven't got layed off, but just voluntarily quit for a better job. But you used the alter-ego mechanisem to advance yourself in seeking for a better pay (hopefully), better airplane, maybe even better QOL so you could be in an A-I-R-L-I-N-E and achieve YOUR alter-ego will - and all that for the price of whatever the airline that picked you offered you.
So basically, what are you trying to tell me you are better than others because you didn't apply for certain 'banned airlines'? or because you were so noble that you didn't take any airline's offer unless they offered exactly what the industry standard going rate was...?
One word.... pleassssseeeee. Nobody's more sacred than the pope. Not even he himself. While you are absolutly right I haven't logged a single 121 hour in my life - maybe that puts me in a better prespective to notice how you guys invented your own little wars to the point where you can actually persuade yourselves that there are better and worse people among you guys. Lots not forget, some of the greatest world's wars were faught that way..... propoganda.
If only the propoganda was directed the right way and not towards popular/unpopular scouts groups.... who wears aber-crombie and who doesn't.
HATETOBREAKIT2U:
I agree with you, especially about military disipline. But those days are gone and we now face a new reality and that's just it. I've seen military disipline in my life and have endured it - it's a different breed.