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#7561
It pertains to a formula as to what total amount of profit sharing is available to be distributed amongst all eligible employees.
For 2018 the total pot was $3M.
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#7562
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From: Airbus Capt
I know you get it, but just so others understand:
"It pertains to a formula as to what total amount of profit sharing is available to be distributed amongst all eligible employees (****** minus the 5% Cliff ******). "
I believe for this year the pot (10% of pre-tax corporate earnings) was actually $72 million. After subtracting the 5% Cliff they are actually distributing $3 million out of the $72 million pot.
So company made around $730 million, of that they set aside $72 million for profit sharing pot, of that they give the employees $3 million.
It's great to be a BlueJet pilot.
Sorry, I'm "just being negative".
#7563
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From: B6
#7564
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From: B6
Very, very incorrect.
You are confusing two different concepts and actually making it sound better than it is. It's worse than you say.
The 10% is the amount of the company's profit set aside to be distributed to the employees (but they don't actually distribute it, because of the cliff, they keep 99.98% of it for the company).
The 5% Cliff is in relation to your eligible wages.
For example, this year if not for the Cliff (Cliff is a fancy term for the company stealing your 1st 5% of your eligible wages via profit sharing) you would get a profit sharing check equal to 5.2% of your wages. But, since the 5% Cliff is always the final step in the mathematical order of operations, it (very, very intentionally) has a massively disproportionate effect on the payout to the employees (did I mention it was very, very intentional?).
So instead of receiving 5.2% in profit sharing, you get *.2%.*
You can see that that simple 5% Cliff, always calculated at the end of the formula, **erased** 96.1% of your profit sharing check.
As a result, I have ZERO F's given about the company's financial metrics.
And... If we were still under the profit sharing formula from 2 years ago, before the company FORCED this worse profit sharing plan on the employees, you would be getting a check for approximately 2.8% of your eligible wages. Here again, the forced change 2 years ago from 15% profit sharing pot to only 10% APPEARS to be a reduction of profit sharing payout of only 1/3 (15% to 10%), but because the Cliff is always the final mathematical operation, that formula change *removed* approximately 92.8% of the *PAYOUT* to employees. 2.8% instead of the new improved formula you only get .2%
Again, this change was VERY, VERY INTENTIONAL.
Now tell me I'm "being to negative" again y'all... And tell me again how they'll be no deferrals in 2019... Tell me again how the company will negotiate in good faith ... And Moxy isn't BlueJet's west coast plan (this one I'm only 75% sure of)...
You are confusing two different concepts and actually making it sound better than it is. It's worse than you say.
The 10% is the amount of the company's profit set aside to be distributed to the employees (but they don't actually distribute it, because of the cliff, they keep 99.98% of it for the company).
The 5% Cliff is in relation to your eligible wages.
For example, this year if not for the Cliff (Cliff is a fancy term for the company stealing your 1st 5% of your eligible wages via profit sharing) you would get a profit sharing check equal to 5.2% of your wages. But, since the 5% Cliff is always the final step in the mathematical order of operations, it (very, very intentionally) has a massively disproportionate effect on the payout to the employees (did I mention it was very, very intentional?).
So instead of receiving 5.2% in profit sharing, you get *.2%.*
You can see that that simple 5% Cliff, always calculated at the end of the formula, **erased** 96.1% of your profit sharing check.
As a result, I have ZERO F's given about the company's financial metrics.
And... If we were still under the profit sharing formula from 2 years ago, before the company FORCED this worse profit sharing plan on the employees, you would be getting a check for approximately 2.8% of your eligible wages. Here again, the forced change 2 years ago from 15% profit sharing pot to only 10% APPEARS to be a reduction of profit sharing payout of only 1/3 (15% to 10%), but because the Cliff is always the final mathematical operation, that formula change *removed* approximately 92.8% of the *PAYOUT* to employees. 2.8% instead of the new improved formula you only get .2%
Again, this change was VERY, VERY INTENTIONAL.
Now tell me I'm "being to negative" again y'all... And tell me again how they'll be no deferrals in 2019... Tell me again how the company will negotiate in good faith ... And Moxy isn't BlueJet's west coast plan (this one I'm only 75% sure of)...
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#7566
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From: Airbus Capt
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It’s not going to happen anyway. Guys will still take the upgrade and they’ll fill the right seat with new hires. No point arguing about it.
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From: B6
There you go name calling again when I state the obvious. There is no shortage of you patting yourself on the back on your own posts. You are so different, quiet and shy at union meetings and in person. Why the tough guy attitude?
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It's lock-step with the history the airline world has of pulling the ladder up once you get to the top, and also lock-step with the story I heard of Airbus guys thinking 190 guys should have to re-interview before going to the Airbus to make sure they have the "right stuff"
#7570
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It seems like a double standard. Vote Yes (assuming you were a yes voter) for the contract that wasn't quite good enough and then vote No for a pay raise when it becomes abundantly clear that everyone shafted the 190 guys too hard. Or, in other words, Vote Yes to not raise the bar and then vote No because a 190 raise alone doesn't raise the bar high enough...... 
It's lock-step with the history the airline world has of pulling the ladder up once you get to the top, and also lock-step with the story I heard of Airbus guys thinking 190 guys should have to re-interview before going to the Airbus to make sure they have the "right stuff"

It's lock-step with the history the airline world has of pulling the ladder up once you get to the top, and also lock-step with the story I heard of Airbus guys thinking 190 guys should have to re-interview before going to the Airbus to make sure they have the "right stuff"
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