08-05-2020Quote:
I am all for a better QOL for you but not at my airline's expense.
Few things chapped my rear end more than jump-seating on shiny new planes on routes that I flew (just before UA decided that I needed a break from employment) and listening to happy young pilots educate me on the painful vagaries of the industry and how great their new planes were.
Having spent over a decade as a commuter puke, I feel your pain. But I have no interest in alleviating any of it. I already gave at the office. Over and over. You want a better gig, I get that. Go get it somewhere else. Everyone is hiring and it's a sellers market.
Spot on. Most of us have walked the same road or experienced long deployments away from family serving in the military with no guarantee of anything but getting an application in the mail. The bottom line is that United can and should pick who they want. An applicant will have to successfully jump through all of the hoops to gain employment. To work for United an applicant will have to pass a background check, the Hogan, an interview, and a review board. Before any of that takes place the application is reviewed to determine if the applicant is someone worth looking at or a waste of valuable time. How can a person be denied a job that they are not somehow entitled to? Flying for a regional that feeds United doesn’t give one some type of right to employment at the mother ship. Many seem to think that anything other than flow is a slap in the face. I wonder why those with that attitude do poorly in the interview process.Originally Posted by oldmako
Dude, do you think that its possible that you've been "denied" a job at mainline because you're delusional? You have zero control over the expansion of scope at mainline, interest or not. My team already took it in the shorts (several times) to allow you to fly OUR PASSENGERS in your shiny new 175 THAT UNITED LIKELY PAID FOR on OUR ROUTES. I am all for a better QOL for you but not at my airline's expense.
Few things chapped my rear end more than jump-seating on shiny new planes on routes that I flew (just before UA decided that I needed a break from employment) and listening to happy young pilots educate me on the painful vagaries of the industry and how great their new planes were.
Having spent over a decade as a commuter puke, I feel your pain. But I have no interest in alleviating any of it. I already gave at the office. Over and over. You want a better gig, I get that. Go get it somewhere else. Everyone is hiring and it's a sellers market.
