Originally Posted by
slowplay
Just as a reminder, early in your career when
all the major airlines were hiring, you sought employment at a struggling carrier that undercut wages of other pilot groups. That carrier ultimately didn't survive, but its low wage contract did exert signficant downward pressure during bargaining on other carrier contract negotiations.
Why did you voluntarily seek employment that didn't meet your expectations, and why were you a participate in the degradation of the profession? Didn't you have a clear and unequivocal mission statement in your job search? Didn't you value the profession, or did you do a resume pump and run, and now expect others to repair the damage?
I should probably seek Tom's inflation adjusted damages for your behavior....
Yeah, you can usually tell when someone's out of ideas when they resort to trying to discredit their opponent rather than debating the issue(s). Your post really doesn't even merit a response, other than a couple of things:
1) Look at the pay rates at DAL, UAL, AA, etc. during that time period and even all the way up to the point where the airline for whom I worked ceased to exist. (Hint: we got C2K while pilots were still "working for less" at that airline.) Some "downward pressure!"
2) You can't make that criticism without condemning the path that virtually every civilian pilot has taken to Delta Air Lines... i.e. almost every civilian pilot has worked for low wages as part of the path to achieving his/her career objective.