So just why ARE the new hires being assigned SDF if they are going to end up in ANC? Looking at it from the company's view, $$$$, if any of these guys end up in ANC now, they will have to be given the total moving package. Nice deal for them, but when is UPS ($$$$) ever that nice?

In the other fleets, if someone is to be based somewhere outside of Mecca, they are goven that assigment right from the start. I have a buddy in training now that was given MIA, others got ONT and SDF. It keeps the company from paying the move, and gives the new hires family a little bit of a heads up about where they will be moving to.

To have a new hire move his family to SDF and start to establish roots, kids in school, ect., and then move them to ANC in a few months, knowing that they would really be needed up in ANC is really cruel.

And they wonder why we commute......