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02-05-2009 | 09:24 PM
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As a former Delta Connection Academy guy, I was thinking about going down to the school in Uniform with a big sign that says "Being Owned Means EVERYTHING!" "Furloughed Comair Pilot that owes $100,000.00 thanks to DCA"
I can stand right on the road that goes to the school. HAHA and I only live 5 mins from the place. ohh soo tempting!
I can stand right on the road that goes to the school. HAHA and I only live 5 mins from the place. ohh soo tempting!
Maybe we could get a bell for you to ring while sitting outside at Wal-Mart
02-06-2009 | 06:05 AM
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02-06-2009 | 07:30 AM
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If you think you worked for idiots on the airline/corporate side of aviation you haven't seen anything yet!!!! The idiots that manage the ATC side of the FAA are the biggest bunch of incompetent boobs I've ever seen (25 years as controller, retired May 08 on the day I was illegible.) The FAA uses the "Cess Pool theory of management." The turds float to the top! You may think that the money will make up for the bad management but you will tire of that quickly. I was at Ft. Worth center and it sucked big time. I made $160k+ and walked away from that. My retirement is half that amount so now I can afford to fly for a "non-living." Good luck!!!!!
02-06-2009 | 12:05 PM
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If you think you worked for idiots on the airline/corporate side of aviation you haven't seen anything yet!!!! The idiots that manage the ATC side of the FAA are the biggest bunch of incompetent boobs I've ever seen (25 years as controller, retired May 08 on the day I was illegible.) The FAA uses the "Cess Pool theory of management." The turds float to the top! You may think that the money will make up for the bad management but you will tire of that quickly. I was at Ft. Worth center and it sucked big time. I made $160k+ and walked away from that. My retirement is half that amount so now I can afford to fly for a "non-living." Good luck!!!!!
02-06-2009 | 01:17 PM
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I'm not making the statement that all is well in paradise. Just that 80% of the people I flew with at CMR are the most negative people I have ever met. Yes... there are reasons to be upset, but I think our company and employees could benefit from some optimism. The fact that people think whats going on is the result of a few people wanting to bring grief to other co-workers is crazy. We are all in this together, and the minute we understand that, then work to make this place work better we'll all be a lot better off.
02-06-2009 | 01:20 PM
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02-06-2009 | 01:46 PM
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If you think you worked for idiots on the airline/corporate side of aviation you haven't seen anything yet!!!! The idiots that manage the ATC side of the FAA are the biggest bunch of incompetent boobs I've ever seen (25 years as controller, retired May 08 on the day I was illegible.) The FAA uses the "Cess Pool theory of management." The turds float to the top! You may think that the money will make up for the bad management but you will tire of that quickly. I was at Ft. Worth center and it sucked big time. I made $160k+ and walked away from that. My retirement is half that amount so now I can afford to fly for a "non-living." Good luck!!!!!
In spite of these undesirable characters, ATC still offers better pay and security than most airline jobs. How long would you have to work at a regional (or major for that matter) before you could make 160K per year? Also, when I spoke with you briefly in CVG last summer, Comair was going to hire hundreds of pilots, and then (well you know the rest!). So it can be argued that airline management can turn on you "quicker than a Greek waiter!" Also, you and I are collecting a federal pension, which allows us to live on our own terms (to a degree), a luxury that "Diesel" probably doesn't have. In other words, he can expect to go to work and be forced to eat $hit for many years to come. Finally, I will go out on a limb and predict that the working conditions in ATC will improve now that we have a new sheriff in Washington. So I say to Diesel "go for it and good luck!" You'll have a couple of decades to get jaded and cranky, and then you can retire!
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