Hey XO and Falcon,

You guys seem to be a good voice of XOJET here on this forum and you are the best source of information regarding the company. Unfortunately, XOJET recently became just another company (compared to Best of the Bay Area to work for..) when it committed the atrocity of the 23 terminations around Christmas time. Obviously, through no fault of you guys..

Also, you guys seem to be bearing the brunt of many of your fellow pilots' ire when you make postings here regarding XOJET. That is because many here know those pilots (aviation is a small world) or have been in a similar situation themselves before. So when you paint a rosy picture about the company, even when true, it is tainted by the Company's outrageous behavior with regard to the 23 terminations. You and all pilots know that there is no way that 23% (or whatever the percentage) was deemed substandard all the same day. To gloss over this or to minimize these atrocities only serves to anger your fellow pilots. I am not advocating that you criticize your company here on this forum..: After all, you are at-will employees working for a company that just destroyed 23 of your fellow pilot's careers. Rather, I ask that you try to understand the ire that your fellow pilots have regarding these career-damaging terminations vs. furloughs (Good luck finding a flying job in this or any market in the age of online applications with selective canidate filtering; Felony, Misdemeanor, DWI, Accident, Incident, Violation, No 4 Year Degree, No 2 year Degree, etc. They might never get a chance to explain to a real HR person as to why they were fired and that XOJET had no industry standard furlough policy because they already filtered them).

Finally, to use the terms "laid off", "let go", etc. diminishes the truly ugly way that XOJET treated these pilots. Bad companies and dictatorships commit atrocities: Good companies terminate for "cause" here and there and offer Military Leaves, Voluntary Leaves, Early Retirement, Reduced Hours, and Furlough with Recall Rights when the need arises. It is generally assumed that this is a company's honorable way of doing business, just as giving a company a two week notice is an employee's honorable way of doing business. Referring to these terminations as "furloughs", "lay offs", "downsizing", or "letting people go", can be likened to referring to the Holocaust as the Final Solution... It sounds better, doesn't it? But it was still an atrocity.

So don't take it personally when fellow pilots here are hard on you you because you work at XOJET.. I don't think that it is personal, just vented anger at another company treating it's employees like 5h1tt. After all, you guys survived there to fly another day. Good luck to you guys, your 23 terminated pilots, and all of us in the aviation industry during desperate times. Good luck to XOJET, too, but not to those that "pulled the trigger" of that atrocity. Karma for them, because they forever tarnished the reputation of XOJET as a great place to work. Hopefully, the wheel of justice will prevail with them. Good luck, guys..

In Unity,

B727DRVR