Originally Posted by
Mason32
How would working an outside second job be taking away from the furloughed few? Please pal, 2nd year pay is what 30-34 an hour... divided by your duty time it's really half that... so, you can't make 15-17 doing something else? BS
You just got done saying you can't pay your rent, and in the same email, your advocating the pilots reducing their cost... makes a great soundbyte buddy, but just where do you think that reduction will come from other than your paycheck.... STOP DRINKING THE MANAGEMENT KOOLAID !!!!
That was when it was still a profession. You weren't here then.
Great, another fantastic soundbyte.... this didn't stop you from taking a 12 dollar an hour airline pilot job though did it ? Tall talk, no substance.
What does any of that have to do with working overtime?
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1. Hours of work are hours of work. Whether they are at AMR or at sonic. If I have to work overtime or get an outside part-time job I will still be taking work out of the available pool. This will still hurt the furloughed pilots in one way or another. This causes others to go after the jobs that our furloughed pilots need to work. In an ideal world none of us would need overtime or a second job. I make $26 bucks an hour. My salary is not close to jet pay. This is a whole other issue though and we won't go into that right now.
2. I don't drink the company Kool-aide just as I don't drink the union Kool-aide. Take both with a grain of salt. By reducing cost I don't mean salary. I mean COST. When I get furloughed I will blame it on a few things.
- A shrinking economy. The company hired me when things were going much better than they are now. People traveled more. I feel that the company has no obligation to employ me if they can't afford to because they are operating at a smaller capacity than when I was hired. If you want to blame anybody, blame the families that aren't going on a vacation this year, blame the business execs that teleconfrence instead of fly to the meetings.
- Pilots who deliberately cost the company as much as they can. I know a few who will do anything and everything to make sure AMR runs out of money. This includes bidding from plane to plane every chance they can so that the company has to train them again and again. This is not only expensive and counter productive, but it is a very immature and bone-headed move. Also, I'm tired of pilots slowing down just so they can time out or over-block. This is what I mean by do your job as you were hired to. If you are filed at Mach .76, don't fly it at .73 just so you get in 5-10 minutes late every flight. In addition, sick call abuse costs the company a lot of money too. Think about how many salaries could be paid if people only called in sick when they actually were sick.
3. I wasn't here then, you're right, but neither were you. We used to be worth looking up to. I'm not asking for those times to come back, but nobody but ourselves can take our pride and professionalism away from us but ourselves.
4. I'm not blaming my low salary on anyone else. I knew the pay-grade when I applied. I just didn't think I would be on turbo-prop pay or stay on reserve so long. What I was trying to say is that until you have done everything you could to make this company profitable, you can't blame others for not doing the same.
5. This was just to sum up my frustration with lazy or dishonest pilots. Stop blaming others and work hard.
My stance on these issues stem from my raising and business degree. It is pretty simple to understand, when the company doesn't make money, neither do you (i.e. you get furloughed), when they do, you do (i.e. you keep your job). Next time you take a swing at me make sure you get a little wood on the ball (all in good fun).