Here it comes
06-12-2009 | 03:51 PM
#102
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Jul 2008
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There's a furlough-proof side of the list? Which side is it?
06-12-2009 | 07:50 PM
#104
Can't abide NAI
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 12,078
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
No kidding!
I told my wife tonight at dinner that my financial goals are now simply off the table. We'll be fine, nobody is going to starve. Life is going to be an adventure like it was in our 20's. We had a ton of fun then.
I told my wife tonight at dinner that my financial goals are now simply off the table. We'll be fine, nobody is going to starve. Life is going to be an adventure like it was in our 20's. We had a ton of fun then.
06-12-2009 | 08:45 PM
#105
Line Holder
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 866
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From: Starboard Side, weekends & holidays.
As for all the DC-9 angst from the last few pages.... I just don't understand all the angst. I fly the -9, I commute on the -88. I'll take the -9 every time. It's kind of like dating (back in the days we were all single).
The -88 wows you right off the bat with all the jewelry and sophistication. After a few dates, you see through all the smoke and mirrors and realize that, despite the fact you thought you were getting a prom queen, you ended up with a broken-down, working-class single mom with a meth addiction.
As for the -9, there's no pretense. You know from day one that you're riding a middle-aged, broken-down *****. At first, it'll disgust you a little bit, but after a while you'll learn to love it. She's a good girl, and she appreciates a man who knows how to drive her.
You guys dreading the -9... I dare say you'll really appreciate flying it.... despite losing 10 pounds to sweat in the summer and being doused with glycol in the winter. If Smiling Bob flew the -9, he wouldn't need any mail-order help...We brew testosterone here... End of the day, it's an airplane, and a very enjoyable one to fly under mainline wages and workrules.
Enjoy it while it lasts. It'll be negotiated away for a few bucks and the "greater financial health of the company" before you know it.
06-12-2009 | 09:34 PM
#106
AAmerican Way for AA Pay
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,617
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From: B-737 Pilot
06-13-2009 | 04:08 AM
#108
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 911
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From: Left, left, left right left....
As for the -9, there's no pretense. You know from day one that you're riding a middle-aged, broken-down *****. At first, it'll disgust you a little bit, but after a while you'll learn to love it. She's a good girl, and she appreciates a man who knows how to drive her.
Don't tell, don't yell, and grateful as hell......
06-13-2009 | 04:10 AM
#109
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 911
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From: Left, left, left right left....
It will be traded for no hats and another choice of Intl crew meal entree. Remembers all you guys *****ing about Scope are not looking at the bigger picture.......
06-13-2009 | 06:18 AM
#110
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,716
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Nothing was traded for the no hats...it couldn't be enforced. Things get traded when you hear the words..."long term this will be better for you"
