Not only holiday pay but I never understood why we didn't get hourly pay from check-in? I know we got trip hour credit but it seldom made up for the time we spent flight planning, pre-flighting, etc.

If we did that they'd eliminate long sits and unproductive trips. Why get rid of a good thing?

I can't look at that picture without hearing her say, "...and then we bang." Character flaw, I suppose.

He was pushing to bring all that flying in house. He even felt a agreement with ALPA could be quickly reached.

All perfectly legitimate points for us to consider and debate.

But considering how much of our overall compensation was destroyed in the construction of the "New Delta", which looks suspiciously like the old Delta, with the money moved out of the orange envelopes, and re-assigned to more... valuable corporate objectives, I figure that the company ought to have the decency to show that what remain of mine... is not their business.

Someone spent the time thinking about what I should be advised to do. The composed the message, then spent (my) money to send me the postcard.

The company is not providing that advice for our benefit.

Does the company get a tax break if the money goes directly into our 401Ks?

Is there a kickback from Fidelity?

Say it isn't so?!

Just so we're clear, I'm not gratuitously whining. I can deal with the past, and with where we are. I get it. I just find it offensive that an entity that no longer protects us like a parent should, should find it acceptable to give paternalistic advice, self-serving or not. The not-so-subtle implication: we don't take care of you, but we want to make sure you're taken care of, by taking care of yourselves. The health "advice" fits in the same category, as far as I'm concerned.

It's all crap.

So, does anybody get fired for the Delta airfare "price glitch"?

Seen tomorrow out front of the Kremlin:

http://www.tomecek.com/jay/Stocks.gif

Fair enough I guess. As an aside, I like paper actually. (As long as I don't have to physically ensure it is updated other than reading the date on the package or lug it around) When we are required to do everything electronically is when I get concerned. I am curious as to how other than the accessibility of real time weather data, the EFBs (for example) are gonna make my life better. Feel free to discuss that ya'll. Back on point however, I choose to not see this as anything nefarious. (My disclaimer is that I have not seen the card as of yet) It could be just a helpful suggestion, and that isn't always a bad thing.



I disagree with your first sentence. If I fund my 401k earlier in the year, this year and next year and the year after, for 30 years of my career, I will have lots more money at the end because that money has been working for me for much longer. It's that little inconvenient truth about time/value of money that you seem to detest so much. If the company gets a tax break/kick back and at the same time it benefits me to undertake the suggestion, where's the harm? You are not being forced to do anything.