Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Why are you arguing with him? Ignore function, block him out. Life is good... and as a small favor, please don't quote people like him because if you do, then the users who blocked him can still see nonsensical posts. Hopefully IB fixes this glitch soon.

Originally Posted by coflyr

It's ironic that one minute pilots will tell the FAs "well if you want pilot pay become a pilot", and then the next minute cry "no fair" when our execs make exec pay.

Originally Posted by Opakapaka

Ha Ha. Totally agree. Executive's will try and get the most just like pilots. Go to business school and get that job, or climb the corporate ladder and get it that way. I don't GAS what they make. Sounds like they are smarter than any pilot for going that route.

Originally Posted by mulcher

only the geniuses running our airline didn’t go to business school.

Originally Posted by mulcher

only the geniuses running our airline didn’t go to business school.

Originally Posted by mulcher

only the geniuses running our airline didn’t go to business school.

Originally Posted by Zard

They did. They were just the c- students. There’s not enough margin to encourage the really slick biz school grads to throw their fortune in with any airline, and there’s not enough opportunity for financial trickery to pull the real geniuses into the gig. Why come here and skim a million or two off the top when you could go to state street or blackrock or vanguard and skim 10 million a year?

We aren’t recruiting the best and brightest for executives. We know it and they know it, which is why they are even more entrenched. They’re not the smartest and it scares them which is why they are even less likely to push boundaries or accept help from outside their professional bubble.

Originally Posted by 5tools

Well with all the SWAPA guys who have gone across to take their big job at GO, why haven't any of them become CEO, or COO. After all you guys claim they are the smartest people in the room over the years. I wonder who in the lastest group it will be? I got my guess.

Originally Posted by e6bpilot

Not sure why everyone is so excited about exec comp every year. It is what it is. We aren't executives nor do most of us desire to be one. They are in a club that gets compensated insanely high for what they produce and in a way that is advantageous to avoiding taxes. They got there by following the path that led them there.
We get paid in direct proportion to what we produce and are taxed like the rest of the "poor bastards" club that makes enough to be considered wealthy by most standards but not enough to avoid taxes like the truly wealthy.
It is what it is. Change it or accept it. We aren't them. They aren't us. They look down on us. It's fine. Trust me. It really doesn't matter.
My goal, as always, is to extract the maximum amount of money out of this place for the least amount of effort. I want to retire with a nice cushion to do what I want to do and to help my kids out while they are young and need the help. Other than that, I am going to live inside the box that I have made for myself and not worry about other people. I am not going to let someone else's situation dictate my happiness. I wouldn't trade with them. I stopped climbing the ladder the day I left my last job and I feel so free because of it.