Southwoke
#11
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Joined: Oct 2017
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#13
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Apr 2013
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True, and they may all be false. This could be the product of a PAC or other organized group. In any case, it's pretty dumb. Of course, the company moving to crush it is even dumber since it will probably just fan the flames, but nobody asked me.
#14
I am curious about the who’s and why’s behind it.
#15
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Joined: Dec 2017
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From: 737 FO
I already had this conversation not here, but this is like fighting a callsign. A wise CEO/PR team would have spoken out of both sides of their mouths and earned customers. Instead, the legal hounds (that no one likes) will be unleashed and we will look even dumber by proving whater idiot came up with this website right.
Something like “Southwest Airlines believes every person has value which is why we are proud to employ blah blah blah. While we think this website is wrongheaded and doesn’t represent the truth about swa, we accept that in this country every person has the right to their opinion, even ones with which we disagree.”
how hard would that be to put out?
Something like “Southwest Airlines believes every person has value which is why we are proud to employ blah blah blah. While we think this website is wrongheaded and doesn’t represent the truth about swa, we accept that in this country every person has the right to their opinion, even ones with which we disagree.”
how hard would that be to put out?
#16
weekends off? Nope...
Joined: Apr 2014
Posts: 2,407
Likes: 133
I already had this conversation not here, but this is like fighting a callsign. A wise CEO/PR team would have spoken out of both sides of their mouths and earned customers. Instead, the legal hounds (that no one likes) will be unleashed and we will look even dumber by proving whater idiot came up with this website right.
Something like “Southwest Airlines believes every person has value which is why we are proud to employ blah blah blah. While we think this website is wrongheaded and doesn’t represent the truth about swa, we accept that in this country every person has the right to their opinion, even ones with which we disagree.”
how hard would that be to put out?
Something like “Southwest Airlines believes every person has value which is why we are proud to employ blah blah blah. While we think this website is wrongheaded and doesn’t represent the truth about swa, we accept that in this country every person has the right to their opinion, even ones with which we disagree.”
how hard would that be to put out?
#17
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Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 4,258
Likes: 240
From: B737CA
Personally, I don't want the company to be left-leaning or right-leaning. A dollar from a Bernie Bro is just as good as the dollar from a MAGA Dude and I want to welcome them both to fly on us. You don't do that by swaying to one side or the other... plus you're alienating a large group of your employees whichever way you choose to sway. That was one thing I really appreciated about the company in 2020 when the company expressly prohibited BLM masks and all that other nonsense. I don't want to see BLM paraphernalia at work just as I don't want to see the MAGA paraphernalia. We should be united under one banner at Southwest Airlines. DEI accomplishes none of that and only serves to alienate people and we seem to be losing the plot with respect to why we exist as a company and the basics of what made this company successful to begin with.
#18
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Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,655
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On the internal newsletter they said they don’t condone the site because it violates the golden rule, etc…
Yet, if you post ANYTHING on the Facebook culture page HQ employees think shouldn’t be public to other employee groups they will ban you from posting like Facebook “fact checkers” did during Rona.
Yet, if you post ANYTHING on the Facebook culture page HQ employees think shouldn’t be public to other employee groups they will ban you from posting like Facebook “fact checkers” did during Rona.


