This is how I feel right now.
https://i.imgflip.com/37ktjn.jpg

"We can't staff these airlines with pilots who don't have jobs."

"I know! Let's try to staff them with pilots who do have jobs."

So after a few days to reflect...

This has been us on the DL side:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B01bgPjg...eo_watch_again


The metaphor is... Gettin' the job done, LIT AF, despite not having the proper tools and no help from anybody, we still did the best job we could and worked our tails off.
May some new airplanes be the drum kit that we deserve.

My guess - management is trying to nail down a deal. Didn’t want to mention it until they had it in the bag, but DL was making this announcement, so cpz was forced to tease this new deal in order to prevent mass panic and exodus. Ideally, DL would have waited another couple weeks so they could announce it all at once with a plan set up.

They seem to only be asking us to wait a couple more weeks, that sounds fair to me. Definitely sticking around until I find out what’s up.

Just hope they don’t keep pushing the announcement date back, that would be a bad sign. If we aren’t adding planes by November, we’ll be in some trouble

Anybody remember Spy vs Spy?
 

It was a Mad magazine cartoon. One spy was always out to get the other guy, sort of anything goes to their own benefit. I sometimes feel that way about pilots and regional management. I’m cynically starting to wonder if I should be like that now. Just shotgunning apps out to a bunch of places that I know will take me, getting interviews lined up, H€|| even accepting CJOs and getting classes scheduled that I really have no intention of showing up for if there really is a chance to stay at Compass long enough to get the TPIC I need to be competitive. I’ve never been in an industry where there seemed to be as much of a worker-bee management divide as the 121 world. The guys (and gals) I fly with are great, but I wish their was more of a sense of teamwork with management - ALL 121 management - than this Spy vs Spy cr@p.

Not to wholly disagree with you, but I used to work for BNSF, and that management/employee relationship was openly hostile. I can’t begin to tell you in this limited medium how blatant and direct the face-to-face angst was; let alone the passive and the behind-closed-doors stuff. I was led to believe that the other major railroads were far worse.

I guess my point is that I appreciate the level of cooperation we have, even if it is less than desirable. That gives me some hope that something is imminent as they claim.

Like most of the rest of you, though, I don’t hang my hat on hope. I’ll be putting out a targeted shotgun blast as insurance soon.

It was worse at the other railroads. I was at CSX, and we were always told that BNSF was the “gold standard.” We wished we had an atmosphere like the BN.😂😂