Lewbronski

Sorry to hear that I’ve “lost [you] as an advocate here.” That’s awful.

As far as the RLA and my advocacy of it goes, nearly everything I say is backed up with fact and case law. You don’t have to believe any of that in the same way that you don’t need to believe that the Earth more closely approximates a sphere than it does a flat disk.

But organized labor tends to have better results when they deal in the reality of what the courts have actually really said about the RLA rather than the myths that get passed around among pilots like the President can shut us down or the mediator can put us on ice forever or there’s no chance Congress will let an airline pilot union strike.

In the same way, rocket scientists tend to have better results when they deal with the real physics of orbital dynamics than if they were to attempt to launch astronauts into space based on the lore of flat-earthers.

But go ahead and listen to those parties who would have you believe that attempting to generate the credible threat of a legal strike is a pointless endeavor for all the fantastic reasons they perennially cite. They’ve got your back. You’ll see.

”[My] stance on hiring” that you’re referencing is simply me passing on what a guy here at SWA, who was very well known among the engaged folk of the pilot group as a pilot advocate (before he left under the VSP program), had to say about SWA pilot hiring based on his pretty extensive experience.

As I mentioned, he had previously run a SWA-focused hiring prep firm for several years. AFAIK, he coined the term “desperation hiring” that he said SWA specialized in. If you don’t like that, that’s fine. If that offends you, that’s your choice to be offended. But that was his assessment.

Have you run a SWA-centric hiring prep firm? I haven’t. But he has.

Having known the guy and having respect for him, I personally put a lot of stock in what he had to say. You don’t have to. You have every right to believe what you want.

Like SlipKid said, he was/is a very sharp guy. I also tried to get him to run for SWAPA but he was, in fact, too smart to do so, just like SlipKid said. And, also like SlipKid said, he was nearly 100% correct in what he had to say about the issues surrounding the pilot group that came and went while he was here.

Despite constantly being poo-pooed by the in crowd, history has proven that he was almost entirely right and the poo-pooers were almost entirely wrong. Unfortunately, not enough people in our pilot group listened to him.

You are free, however, to be angry, hurt, or annoyed by his analysis of “desperation hiring” or my reporting of it. Rage away.

I honestly have no idea what you’re getting at here. How any of this become a left or right issue in your mind is baffling. Respectfully, wtf?

This entire section quoted above is essentially unintelligible. It’s as if you had GPT-2 attempt to write an APC post for you. I really have very little idea what you’re talking about nor what you’re trying to say.

I didn’t say that. If you’re taking what I said and assigning that meaning to it, I think it’s more a reflection of your own psychology than anything else.

Okay. That’s a point of view. And by “bale,” do you mean bale hay? Or bail out? JK!!!!!

This is what I said a few posts ago:

In this post, I’m not “accusing the new hires of being ‘non-employable’ by anyone else.” It’s surprising to me that that is what you got from what I wrote. It’s as if you invented meaning that’s not there in order to have an excuse to be offended. You are, of course, free to to do that. But what you claim to have inferred from my post is not what was said.

I think the last couple pages of this thread are an interesting psychological peek into ego and ego triggers. Pretty interesting stuff when viewed from that perspective.

RJSAviator76

Lew, are you talking about JL?

Lewbronski

Nope. I’d give his initials, but I believe it’s against the APC TOS to identify or otherwise dox individuals unless they are elected union officials. But I miss both who you’re referring to and the other guy. Both deserve to be inducted into the SWA Pilot Advocate Hall of Honor some day.