Okay, let me dumb this down as far as I can manage:

It's a zero-sum game. Wait, not dumb enough. Here's what that means:

If you 'help' your poor, hungry little tots by scabbing, then you are hurting MY poor, hungry little tots by scabbing. And you think I should understand YOUR 'need' to hurt MY family? Good luck with that.

Hey Einstein… let me break it down to the lease common denominator for you. Again, nowhere did I say or endorse the idea of crossing a picket line. Do you understand that? If not review my previous posts. If that’s still hard for you to comprehend, ask a friend to translate it for you.

So now Einstein, please explain to this forum in an intelligent manner, that is if you are capable, as to how a striking pilot, securing employment elsewhere with another company, such as waiting table at Fridays, to put food on his table, is equivalent to crossing a picket line, or scabbing? hey... I’ll give you a hint… Fridays is a restaurant, not an airline.

Kind of crazy how these threads get so off topic sometimes! Anyway, the whole scab discussion reminded me of of a guy I interviewed once. My prior job was flying corporate jets for a large U.S. corporation, and I was asked to participate whenever we would be interviewing for a new pilot position. I remember this one guy that we interviewed who had Eastern Airlines listed on his resume as prior experience. After some questioning it became apparent that the guy had crossed the picket line. It was unanimous during our post interview discussion that there was no way we would hire this guy because he was a scab. This was coming from a group of part 135 guys, not ALPA members (yet), just building time and hoping to get on at a major. I saw the guy we interviewed a little over a year later down in Miami throwing baggage into a ratty looking Lear, I'd imagine he's still doing it...

Had a NWA (Nothin' personal)come to the Flight Deck, Hadn't shaved in awhile and said he was on vaction and just trying to get home. It looked and smelled like he had been cleaning fish. His jeans were nasty. When I asked for his license, that's exactly what he handed me. His driver license. I laughed so hard I damn near pi$$ed myself :D

The 'lease' common denominator, huh? Well, that says quite a bit right there.

Of course working outside the industry during a strike isn't scabbing! Who said it was? That is exactly what you SHOULD do, of course. You really seem confused. We are talking about CROSSING A PICKET LINE HERE. Not getting a temporary job to survive the strike, which is obviously recommended.

I have been on strike, and that is exactly what I did to support my family. I also had my own 'war chest' ready, which helped us get by comfortably.

Obviously I thought you were talking about working at your company DESPITE A STRIKE AT YOUR COMPANY. Jeez.

Ps thanks for all the compliments on my intelligence. I wish I could reciprocate.

:cool: Doubt if he was a pilot..........hope you refused him....

Youy're luckey to have gotten to work...the intern had priority over you...just the way it is......:cool:

you guys are idiots...

you ruined this thread, it was about jumpseater stories and it turned to unions and I lost track..

good job

license? FAA license? or did you mean his company ID?

Poor razorseal your too sensitive