Originally Posted by
AAflyer
Greetings Tsquare,
I have and will not call you anything.
Look, when we took our paycuts I also took a 38% paycut. I went from old 767 payrates to MD-80 FO BK style pay rates. And guys who went from Captain to FO took in some cases a 50% cut. Lastly the furloughs to 100%.
What I am asking you to do and others is be responsible for your choices. It is NOT is a "RIGHT" to get the Captains house when you make Captain, and over indulge when your (not you specifically) income was high, but many put themselves in the predicament they are in now.
Hopefully people will learn from there mistakes of the past. I know I have. However I have little faith they will. The jumps in oil prices and the decline in SUV sales was temporary till oil declined, and then sales went up again.
The average US salary for a family of four is around $46,000. You and I make a good wage considering (Yes I want my contract restored!) the masses here in the US.
Maybe you should downsize your house, or if you are upside down in some 1/5 Adjusted ARM (or interest only loan) it might be worth considering being a little more financial savvy in the future.
Age 65 is the law, picking up OT under an RLA contract is legal as well. I am not going to call you names, and you should not let your blood pressure boil. We each live with ourselves, and in the end we evaluate how we benefited from our profession and how we contributed to it. Sometimes it helps to view things through the eyes of some of our peers who are not as fortunate.
Good Luck,
AAflyer
How about advocating that guys with a fully funded B fund and DB plan retire now? Shouldn't they have been planning on retirement at age 60? I'm all for that because far more people "win" in that scenario... besides, you'd probably move up to WB lineholding captain.
Look, you guys are completely missing my point apparently.
I am not living out of
my personal means. I do not advocate ever doing that. One need look no further than the stupidity of the US government to see how utterly retarded that is. But the fact is.. people now find themselves in this situation due partially to no fault of their own.
Furloughees are at the head of this list, no doubt. But.... as I said.. altruism only goes so far. The ultimate altruism would be for the old guys to leave when they thought they should have been gone. Good luck with that one..