Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
02-13-2015 | 02:16 PM
Bye Bye Maddog!
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02-13-2015 | 02:32 PM
Straight QOL, homie
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From: Record-Shattering Profit Facilitator
+1. It's embarrasing. My dentist laughed when I asked if he took MetLife dental.
02-13-2015 | 02:46 PM
Otto
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Pro Diem uses the exact time you block in till the time you report the next day. They do it down to the minute. Just dates will not suffice for the IRS. Using just dates will decrease your allowable deductions. Try it for one year and see what your account says. Just Say'n.
When I explained the format of the pro diem form to my accountant and told him what it cost me to get...he crunched the adding the machine in the background and goes "yeah pay for that cause it will cost you more than for me to have to do the calculations."
Just food for thought.
Just food for thought.
Welcome to the same garbage we had in the military for dependents. It is 100% junk. They make up for the crappy coverage with retarded customer service.
02-13-2015 | 02:51 PM
Looking for a laugh
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Don't forget, you can deduct the cost of Pro-diem if you itemize.
02-13-2015 | 04:56 PM
Doing Nothing
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I have a new desire for my future ps. It is of it's highest value ever right now. I would like to trade it in this contract. Something that we get that isn't shared with the rest of the company. 401k. All employees are different. I will trade up ps for the company putting in the 415max on Jan 1 of every year. profit or no profit.....every year. two fold, yes our 18k will get taxed but pay in my pocket every year none the less, also the money in Jan 1 gaining all year instead of laddered out. Just a thought.
02-13-2015 | 05:13 PM
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Pro Diem uses the exact time you block in till the time you report the next day. They do it down to the minute. Just dates will not suffice for the IRS. Using just dates will decrease your allowable deductions. Try it for one year and see what your account says. Just Say'n.
02-13-2015 | 05:15 PM
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From: Permanently scarred
Well I guess they've won. They have effectively already managed your expectations.
I agree that our insiders should be fighting for us and a better contract. And I am really tired of reading the posts on here where any post that mentions anything more than a 10% raise gets slammed. But ultimately, it will be up to us to decide whether or not the contract is acceptable. And I think the min day talk will wake up even the auto-yes voters.
Keep in mind though that no one from the union has mentioned anything about sick time, minimum month, or any other work rule concessions.
We haven't even opened our contract yet so there aren't any table positions in play yet, but I am discouraged that, based on past history and the discussions on here, that during the best time in our airline's history, we find ourselves in a great position to get a great contract, and some are spring loaded to give the company something to get something. That mindset needs to change if we are going to get the contract I expect.
Keep your chin up, it hasn't even started yet, and if the contract doesn't meet your expectations, vote NO.
E
I agree that our insiders should be fighting for us and a better contract. And I am really tired of reading the posts on here where any post that mentions anything more than a 10% raise gets slammed. But ultimately, it will be up to us to decide whether or not the contract is acceptable. And I think the min day talk will wake up even the auto-yes voters.
Keep in mind though that no one from the union has mentioned anything about sick time, minimum month, or any other work rule concessions.
We haven't even opened our contract yet so there aren't any table positions in play yet, but I am discouraged that, based on past history and the discussions on here, that during the best time in our airline's history, we find ourselves in a great position to get a great contract, and some are spring loaded to give the company something to get something. That mindset needs to change if we are going to get the contract I expect.
Keep your chin up, it hasn't even started yet, and if the contract doesn't meet your expectations, vote NO.
E
02-13-2015 | 05:17 PM
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From: Permanently scarred
02-13-2015 | 05:31 PM
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What is the chit chat forum? Is that the DALPA forum? I stopped going there a long time ago.
Ok so I stand corrected. If they bring us a POS TA, we vote it down.
If this contract doesn't meet our expectations, in this environment if they can't negotiate an outstanding contract, they are done here at Delta.
They can act like they are smarter than me, and that they know what's best for me all day long and that doesn't bother me. All I care about are results, and if they don't produce results this time around, I am done with them and I suspect there are many others who feel the same way.
Ok so I stand corrected. If they bring us a POS TA, we vote it down.
If this contract doesn't meet our expectations, in this environment if they can't negotiate an outstanding contract, they are done here at Delta.
They can act like they are smarter than me, and that they know what's best for me all day long and that doesn't bother me. All I care about are results, and if they don't produce results this time around, I am done with them and I suspect there are many others who feel the same way.
I hope we have enough of us that agree with this (despite the new screen names that have shown up lately to dampen expectations). Didn't pilots give and give and give before I got here? Why would you want to forget all those concessions which allowed the company to prosper and thrive to the point of record profits only to go into future negotiations with the mindset of, "That's why they call it negotiating--you have to give concessions!"
I don't get that mindset with the environment we find ourselves. Sure, if you're a defeatist and suffer from pilot-guilt, but otherwise why in the world would you think pilots need to give up more QOL to make gains? At some point you have to realize you've been bled for all you can give.
I realize the company wants to make gains anyway and every way it possibly can. Great! But stop looking at the employees. I know that's where the easy gains are, but enough is enough! The ticket prices have gone up; the fuel costs have gone down; the efficiencies have been achieved: PROFITS have been realized. The greed of trying to get more out of the pilot group has got to stop! Look elsewhere.
Time for gains without giving up what we have.
02-13-2015 | 06:34 PM
veut gagner à la loterie
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Okay. Just a little clarification of how this works. You do this widget with Pro Diem, you upload the data, in 1 day they send you back an email. Reminding you that you forgot to pay. 4 days later you read the email. You pay. That night you get your info.
And it's like an awesome number. $7000. And you happily go enter it on turbotax and all of the "what you gettin' back" numbers go up up up. It's great.
And then Turbotax asks you if you got reimbursed. You say nope. And move on. You like:
But you wrong. You do have to put in your per diem. Pro Diem mentions it.
Then you do. Turbotax steps you through finding the per diem and putting it in. Then you watch those "you gettin' back numbers" go back down some.
Then you
But it's still worth it by 2 grand.
And it's like an awesome number. $7000. And you happily go enter it on turbotax and all of the "what you gettin' back" numbers go up up up. It's great.
And then Turbotax asks you if you got reimbursed. You say nope. And move on. You like:
But you wrong. You do have to put in your per diem. Pro Diem mentions it.
Then you do. Turbotax steps you through finding the per diem and putting it in. Then you watch those "you gettin' back numbers" go back down some.
Then you
But it's still worth it by 2 grand.
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