Southwest, UPS raise the bar
09-18-2006, 08:13 AM
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767pilot...
I can tell from your posts you're a "glass half-empty" kind of guy. While you lament the guys left behind (what about the guys left behind in '98??) and the fact that vacation is worth more and the company is short-staffed now that they have to buy back vacations en masse (how many years has it been since they did this?), why don't you look at the positive? The company knows they have to hire more to cover the new scheduling article and the retirements for the over 60 guys who have been dying (literally) to get out of here. The fact that they have to pay 6.7 hours/day at least, and perhaps 7.4 hours/day just makes you miserable.
When you finally wake up and realize you will be living under the contract and not just b*tching about it, maybe you will look for some of the easter eggs that were built in (48 hrs off before training for intl guys is just one of them). There are other ways that we can "work" this contract, just as ups will find ways to have their own "gotchas."
Get over it...comparing a majority vote on this contract to the holocaust is absurd and trivializes the fact that we are compensated fairly well for operating high speed aluminum tubing.
I hope you're not like this on trips. It's guys like you that breed slam clickers....no one wants to be around a whiner all the time. Life is so much more interesting if you don't always look for the dark lining in every silver cloud.
JMO
Pilot7576
I can tell from your posts you're a "glass half-empty" kind of guy. While you lament the guys left behind (what about the guys left behind in '98??) and the fact that vacation is worth more and the company is short-staffed now that they have to buy back vacations en masse (how many years has it been since they did this?), why don't you look at the positive? The company knows they have to hire more to cover the new scheduling article and the retirements for the over 60 guys who have been dying (literally) to get out of here. The fact that they have to pay 6.7 hours/day at least, and perhaps 7.4 hours/day just makes you miserable.
When you finally wake up and realize you will be living under the contract and not just b*tching about it, maybe you will look for some of the easter eggs that were built in (48 hrs off before training for intl guys is just one of them). There are other ways that we can "work" this contract, just as ups will find ways to have their own "gotchas."
Get over it...comparing a majority vote on this contract to the holocaust is absurd and trivializes the fact that we are compensated fairly well for operating high speed aluminum tubing.
I hope you're not like this on trips. It's guys like you that breed slam clickers....no one wants to be around a whiner all the time. Life is so much more interesting if you don't always look for the dark lining in every silver cloud.
JMO
Pilot7576
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