I do feel bad about those that are furloughed. I even accept that this fall my fate may be the same. Heaven help the person that calls me out in the crew room because I picked up a trip in order to make up for missed time or make my measly $800 rent. Up until a few days ago I had 3 other people depending on me to make it on second year FO pay. Now I only have 2 but my obligation is still the same. I wouldn't dare pick it up so I can buy something fun or even eat out, but I will if my family needs me to. Whether I pick up OT or get a second job I would still in a way be taking work away from our furloughed few.

Instead of us figuring out how to screw the company out of more money and make our furlough possibilities larger maybe we should try to to our best to cost as little as possible and do as much work as we can in order to get our company back to where it needs to be. I'm not at all saying work for free, just do what you were freaking hired to do people. Would it be to hard to even wear a smile?

Remember when all you wanted to do was be an airline pilot? Now that we are airline pilots we are all fighting and complaining and pointing the finger anywhere but at ourselves. Just like a good marriage you can't keep score, you just have to do all you can do and not worry about other people's job description. I'm sure that someone will flame this and I don't care. Like I said, just do what you were hired to do.