Originally Posted by
ewrbasedpilot
See, that's the difference between you and I. You couldn't give a rats ass, whereas I do. When they spend an absolute fortune moving our ops from IAH to ORD, then you'll complain there's no money left for YOU to get that nice hefty pay raise. I'm just wondering why we have to shut our ops down and move everything to one of the most expensive places around. So far about the ONLY thing we're keeping is our paint job. Merger of "equals"? Hardly...
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Because THAT'S the Deal that Jeff BOUGHT! Didn't you READ the Aviation week article? He
SAID it was the Deal TILTON offered him
"Take it or LEAVE IT",
There WAS no Negotiation Jeff wanted to be the CEO BAD enough that it was OK to Him. You? Got "sold DOWN the river"!! What Merger of Equals? What Shared Sacrifice?? I would suspect it has as Much to do with UAL having lost our pensions so that they're offering the CAL guys early out retirement and Retention bonuses to stay on until the single certificate is a reality. Any NEW UCAL employees won't get a pension either. (they haven't offered us UAL Guys as much as a "Howdy DO"!) There's Nothing Equitable in their thinking. But if I survived the Blizzard? You would too. It wasn't all that Serious, Nothing we haven't seen before.
This is the chance you take being in the north. It could be worse. So? You have to ask yourself Are you Coming or NOT? It's going to happen either way. They're setting up the 27th floor of the Willis Tower for the backup center and we're keeping the Elk Grove Building as the backup once we move downtown. This severity of blizzard only seems to happen every 30 years or so so it's not like it's "The Day After Tomorrow".. The Trains are running today as well. They took care of everybody at Local Hotels.. I thought Jeff explained this in his Town Hall Meetings?
I didn't hear of any dissention in the ranks. Why are you NOW complaining?? Seems a little
TOO LATE for that don't you thnk?
Well, they didn't ask any of US either if it put's your mind at ease.
We Probably know Less than you know except for we at LEAST know what the furniture looks like at Willis Tower, Believe me, all it is is NEW, It's not like it's got a lot of Style, It's Grey and Blue and NEW Willis Tower Has a LOT of windows. Though not much of a View. I saw a picture of the American Airlines SOCC on TV today on MSNBC "A week in the Life of American Airlines". I KNOW ours will at LEAST look better than theirs. I hear We'll have restaurants and a GYM and even a Dry Cleaners and Barber shop in the building. Other than being DOWNTOWN CHICAGO?? It's not a bad Setup at all and it should be a pleasurable Ride into town and back to the Burbs on METRA. In any case, No need to complain NOW. It's all but DONE! Might as well sit and watch the fun Happen because this is going to get INTERESTING!