Originally Posted by SEGATAKI
Trying to imply that most of UPS management pilots are underqualified and were hired as replacement workers just shows your stupidity. Show me some proof of your claims that only 10% of us actually do a good job. I have been in this industry since the late 70's and I have watched ALPA along with other mangers allow several great airlines to simply dissolve. That will not happen here at UPS. We all hope that the IPA and UPS can negotiate a fair contract. Calling everyone names and making false claims is of no help. People like you are part of the attitude problem between mangers and line pilots. Grow up and find some way to be positive about your job and company!!!
There are numerous.............NUMBEROUS examples of guys with no qualifications hired into management. With no qualifications to then become check airmen. There can only be 10% of you doing an actual job, so that must be the 10% doing a good job! The other 90% are just doing busybody work...waiting for the flag to be raised so you can go out and do your real job.
If you are so experienced in the airline industry, then you must know that the ratio of pilot managers (not mangers), to line pilots is completely out of proportion at UPS. To keep the same ratio as other airlines, with 2700 pilots, UPS would have under 10. Under 10 pilot managers.
So that means the other 200 managers were hired as strike breakers. That's not name calling, that's fact. It's the subject of, "An airline within an airline.", that is talked about so much nowadays. And you must have drank all the brown koolaid not to realize it. Someone as yourself, with so much airline experience. Just look at the concrete facts of these ratios for your proof. Obscene.
The attitude problem comes in when I have some NewHire nob pilot manager, who busted his checkride twice (I'm citing a specific example, FYI), in the same plane that he is now magically a captain and check airman. Gee, the magic of crossing over to, "the dark side". Sorry, that bothers me. And the guy hangs up on pickayune/stupid things in a debrief because he otherwise has nothing valuable to say and wants to justify his job.
This check airman, has no business being a check airman. Nor should this guy be in any way tasked with determining my future on a checkride. No two ways about it, it bothers me.
If the dire stories of previous airlines won't happen at UPS, it won't be because of the skills of all the little pilot managers running around at UPS. It will only be because we all know just what these little pilot managers will be doing in the event of a strike. Then, they will be doing exactly what they were hired for in such numbers to prevent history from repeating itself.
You cannot be so blind as to not see these truths, can you?