* Bullet points = Good

* That MEC note = Word Salad (bad)

*Greenslips = Good.

*Involuntary inverse assignments = Double plus bad. Mostly unheard of, too.

 

The email used GS as a datapoint for staffing. As in, this is the amount of flying that had to be covered outside of PBS, PCS, and reserve coverage vs the year prior. Most of the email talked about staffing, fatigue, training constraints, and the company having admitted to pushing too hard this summer but not making enough of an effort to fix it since. Hardly a war on GS, but continue to double down.

 

Spot on

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Just because you dont like the data they provided with the green slip memo doesn't mean it was not "Reasonable, concise, analytical and data driven."

 

Spot on!

I can tell Trip7 places a lot of personal importance in his wealth. Many of his past posts reveal his psyche. Whether it's banter about his stock market/real estate moves, diversification of retirement income, jubilation in maximizing GS and profit sharing, side hustles, upgrading fast, etc. I'd peg him as a guy who chases money above all. Nothing wrong with that, we all like makin money. Knowing his mindset, I get why he'd lash out at the MEC folks for using GS periods as a data point for staffing. Being understaffed to the point we've been has provided many pilots like him opportunities to to "make hay while the sun is shining". For those with flexibility to work "overtime" ad nauseam, especially those not actively raising a family, what an opportunity. As long as we're not inverse assigning, who care$ right?🤑

But realize a lot of pilots value their time off more than overtime money. Steve Dickson's announcement we'd "tap the brakes" on hiring in late 2018 caused short sighted short staffing, and the MEC rationally uses GS periods as a data point to indicate this. Instead of a summer 2019 bubble, followed by a normal fall/winter, it appears indefinite low staffing. Indefinite levels of high reserve utilization, lack of schedule flexibility, high block hours per pilot, reroutes, and yes GS $$$. War on GS is actually a War on Indefinite Min Staffing. Months like this June/July shouldn't be the new norm, we are out of balance.

 

We wouldn't have a staffing crisis now that requires a PWA fix, would we? How convenient. No to any and all productivity gives because that translates to QOL gives. These things don't happen in a vacuum, this staffing issue is part of the grand design. Oops again, we need your help. Seen it before. The answer is NO.

 

IMO we are gonna be short staffed until after I retire.......4 quarter 2023........unless I win the lottery!

Denny

 

If you win the lottery we won’t be short staffed anymore?!

 

You know you'd stay even if you won the lottery. You'd have to because we'll still be short staffed!!

 

Lol! After the money was in the bank I’d be outta here so fast it’d make your head spin! Not that I don’t like my job (and especially the people I work with) but...

Denny