Originally Posted by Gunfighter

I like to keep my slips in just to get the satisfaction of saying "NO" to a GS over X days.

Originally Posted by jeffmjohnson53

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why the company keeps playing this game from a safety perspective. If something goes wrong, the question is going to be why are you calling people in the middle of the night for something you knew about many hours ago?

Originally Posted by ancman

Racketeer!

/s

Originally Posted by artlight

am I the only one bothered by her incorrect usage of the term “racketeering”? Her incompetence, lack of accountability, and being in way over her head for a job she’s not capable of performing aside…. That’s not what racketeering means.

Originally Posted by artlight

am I the only one bothered by her incorrect usage of the term “racketeering”? Her incompetence, lack of accountability, and being in way over her head for a job she’s not capable of performing aside…. That’s not what racketeering means.

Originally Posted by CBreezy

I think I'm less concerned that she doesn't know the true definition of racketeering and more concerned that a VP at a Fortune 100 airline called some of its employees "thieves" in a public forum.

Originally Posted by CBreezy

I think I'm less concerned that she doesn't know the true definition of racketeering and more concerned that a VP at a Fortune 100 airline called some of its employees "thieves" in a public forum.

Originally Posted by Gone Flying

hoping you are right. And more importantly that it’s the right deal.



agreed. The tone of the MEC chairman’s email seems to support the idea that a deal may be coming sooner rather than later. We will see in the coming weeks I guess

Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

No way. I read the tone completely differently. I read it as ALPA reached out but the company is hell bent on doing this the hard way.

I’ve said this before. The company communications these days are as hostile as they get. Every time they break the PWA and win a grievance, they post it like it’s a victory lap. No humility what-so-ever even though they know they changed the intent of the language and screwed us.

No way we have a deal this year. My optimism is gone. The company can’t even admit that the scheduling department is inadequate. Instead they combine it with tracking and make things worse.

Originally Posted by tennisguru

That's a part of what is so frustrating. By and large this pilot group would be willing to go above and beyond to extrordinary lengths if we had a management team who ran a competent operation and treated the pilots with honesty, dignity, and respect. The problem is they are just looking at us as costs on a spreadsheet and can't calculate an ROI on treating us like professionals. Case in point - when they yanked PB day washing, all they saw was the straight dollar savings they were getting in payroll reductions. This summer we will have WB and NB flights cancelling because reserves have lost a major incentive to come in on their days off and salvage the operation. They'll see the costs in delays/cancellations and whatever other associated costs those items incur, but they won't connect the dots to see that their earlier PB cost savings are causing these future cost increases.