Hai! Arigato.

The abundance of open time lately is overwhelming!

Yes! Just so many trips to pick up I’m about to lose my mind

Seems United just bought ExpressJet. Happy for them, they had a bad deal with Skypest.

"Welcome to our long-standing tradition of shifting airline holidays. Your two-year old will not know the difference"

Wow TW, just wow... You really are out of touch. Glad you get to sleep in your own bed and be with your family every night.

They need to hire some P.R. and fact checkers to edit his newsletters and memos. That, or get him in the HIMS program immediately.

Yes. The little bit of respect I had for him is gone after telling us our kids won't know the difference. I tried to read for context and give him the benefit of the doubt, but he is disrespectful and patronizing. Our kids will absolutely know the difference of us being gone. This just shows what he really thinks of his "gold standard". TW, if you're reading this, you know you are wrong and we deserve an apology. This is how you destroy a team and goodwill management has with it's employees. I'd you hadn't noticed, the ice that morale and good labor management relations is standing on gets thinner every day.

My two year old doesn't know I missed Christmas years ago. Tom is a pragmatic man, that was actually a candid moment. You have to choose to see it as anything other than Tom being Tom.

Banks have Christmas off, if you need other options. People fly on Christmas so celebrate it on a day you have off with family. Next company I go to I'll be junior there too, and my kid will have Christmas without me, again. It'll be fine. Holidays off ain't gonna happen for all of us, make peace with it, or at the very least make a joke about it.

Snowflakes.

Pragmatic wouldn't be a word I would use to describe him. Working Christmas is a sacrifice I choose to make as party of this career. Our chief pilot could choose to respect that sacrifice instead of marginalizing it. He's out of touch at best.

Morale is dropping here. Spare me the "back in my day" speech. I lived the bad old days and wouldn't wish that on anyone. Before you start calling names, how about you use whatever education and common sense you may have and examine how a manager's empathy (or lack thereof) affects employees.

Seriously are we being just a little over sensitive? Come down from the mount. As someone who has worked many many holidays and will be working this upcoming Holiday I did not sense any disrespect from Tom. If anything I sensed a tongue in cheek attempt at humor.