Quote:
OK, fair question.Originally Posted by JoePatroni
Why doesn’t using a vacation pass even out the boarding priority? If you retired with thirty years of service and I am still active with thirty two, why should you get on ahead of me?
Let me ask you this, when you turn 65 and you have spent (given) 32 years of service to this company; by what rationale is it right and proper that you should not at least be able to keep the seniority you have had for those 32 years. Why should someone lose that? I guess they should be punished somehow for having the audacity to not show up for work next week.
(If priority was by check in time what would you do? Add 12 hours to any retiree when they list?)
Having to pick through those meager 8 passes a year they give to you then becomes another layer of penance to pay for not being "active". I am surprised they don't make you say an act of contrition before issuing the pass.
Another bit of downstream consideration is the actual rationale for even having these ridiculous vacation passes in the first place. While yes they do "help" a retiree, in the respect that MOST of the time it's the only way a retiree and their "spouse" can get on the airplane; [you have to realize how much they are denigrated by the active employees. (the passes). If I was active an not considering the plight of the retiree i would advocate to get rid of them entirely like the majority of active employees would like (from what I understand). And we live in abject fear of that!
But yeh, if we were standing at the gate, you with 32 and me with 30 (even though I was flying those days, nights and years while you were still peeing in your pants), I guess they should strip me of the seniority have always had and let you board first. And as you take your seat, just remember someday when your old and gray and have put in your time, you will have the privilege of hanging out in the gate area with me as the plane leaves.