Junior at UPS? Hold your breath for 73 more days
01-19-2009, 05:01 PM
#22
On Reserve
Joined APC: Aug 2008
Position: 757/767 FO
Posts: 18
Can we please go one day, one week, maybe one month without a furlough discussion? I don't understand why there is so much hype. Until there is a notice, everyone should continue business as usual. If you are truly concerned, start cutting back where you can.
UPS has a network that must be kept running throughout the world if they are to keep customers. We have run lean for years, much to the protest of our own pilot group. Looks like this will pay dividends over the next two or so years while we ride this out.
Let's review. Smaller work force, efficient network, cash in the bank, airplanes on order, ANC domicile with costly relocation ramifications and an open time ban policy in our contract should furlough be announced = let it rest!
No one has the crystal ball on the economy and shipping needs. Us squawking about all the give backs, reductions and furlough support we are ready to give right now are just plain insanity.
Be proud to be Brown and go to your happy place!
UPS has a network that must be kept running throughout the world if they are to keep customers. We have run lean for years, much to the protest of our own pilot group. Looks like this will pay dividends over the next two or so years while we ride this out.
Let's review. Smaller work force, efficient network, cash in the bank, airplanes on order, ANC domicile with costly relocation ramifications and an open time ban policy in our contract should furlough be announced = let it rest!
No one has the crystal ball on the economy and shipping needs. Us squawking about all the give backs, reductions and furlough support we are ready to give right now are just plain insanity.
Be proud to be Brown and go to your happy place!
01-19-2009, 07:54 PM
#24
Thanks for the jumpseat!
Joined APC: Nov 2006
Position: MD-11 galley operator
Posts: 260
Originally Posted by 300ER Hauler
Let's review. Smaller work force, efficient network, cash in the bank, airplanes on order, ANC domicile with costly relocation ramifications and an open time ban policy in our contract should furlough be announced = let it rest!
01-20-2009, 07:14 AM
#25
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Kickin it "C"old School in AK
Posts: 283
Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
02-02-2009, 03:02 PM
#30
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2005
Position: 767 captain
Posts: 2,696
Originally Posted by FrontSeat
The word is they did not want it after all and it was the IPA who said you have to go through with it.
What did allegedly happen however, is that the company had second thoughts about the 400 up there before it actually came on line. The company did not want to cancel the bid and pay the expenses with that, they just wanted to move the people with 400 seats to SDF without rebidding them as required by the contract.We politely told them no as that is against the contract language.
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