05-18-2024Quote:
Personally, if I were Flight Ops king for a day, I would work a little harder not to be tone deaf to my employees - particularly those who needn't be furloughed but will be anyway after I've used them as hostages. Happy pilots will make you profits for decades; disgruntled ones will cost you plenty. We're not robots; nuance matters.
^^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^^^^Originally Posted by TED74
I'm not invoking any ploys. I'm taking note of the circumstances that are quite different for almost 2,000 families than they were last year. Many of those folks have never faced anything like this before. Many of these folks believed they were part of the Delta family before covid hit. People are human. People have emotions. The airlines have had previous furloughs but most of these pilots probably have not. Becoming unemployed may very well bring out the illogical/irrational/emotional side of anyone - I can fall into the same traps under far less dire circumstances. If you want to do tough love, go for it. You do you... the company clearly feels the same.Personally, if I were Flight Ops king for a day, I would work a little harder not to be tone deaf to my employees - particularly those who needn't be furloughed but will be anyway after I've used them as hostages. Happy pilots will make you profits for decades; disgruntled ones will cost you plenty. We're not robots; nuance matters.
