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Privateer20 05-23-2014 07:01 AM

Shutup and fish!
 
Just read all the blah blah blah on the other thread!

We pilots are some of the most selfish folks i know....shaped by our seniority system! The '96 hire from Ual is ****ed because he("lost 3 yrs") and they merged in with a guy hired in '99 from Cal. The Cal guy is ****ed because he cant hold Capt anymore. The '98 Ual hire is upset because they "lost 8 yrs" expecting that the '06 hire at Cal should just step aside and give up their seat because thats the way DOH works. The Cal '06 hire is thinking Cal woulda just been rainbows and unicorns for the rest of their career and this merger is total BS. Ual guys claiming junior Cal pilots made a seniority "grab".....nobody else senior wanted the f#$@ing seat! Would those same Ual guys have rather had the Den 737 capt seats go super senior to the Cal side?....after all it is Denver and EVERYbody wants to live there!??! The Cal Iah 767 guys are ****ed because of the Ual metal in their base. The 787 fence is hurting alot more on both sides than it is helping....most of the pain to the L-Ual widebodies its displacing, but looky here: its even hurting guys like me way out in Ewr...every person who bids out to sparky is being backfilled by a senior L-Ual guy.
Good luck winning your own argument with somebody who will NEVER see it your way! Now i gotta go pack the cooler.... good boating weekend ahead!

SpecialTracking 05-23-2014 07:35 AM

Only 30 or so years to go.

Lerxst 05-23-2014 07:42 AM

I miss CarlosDangerStaller

bbhnpd 05-23-2014 11:17 AM

If you're doing the same thing the day after the merger you were doing the day before the merger, you have no legitimate gripe. It doesn't matter that HIS 8 years of working for "X" bought him a Captain job and YOUR 12 years of working for "Y" bought YOU a F/O job. He is entitled to his Captain job (and the system seniority to continue to hold it...)_ and you remain entitled to your F/O job (and the system seniority to continue to hold it...).

99% of all this SLI BS is that one guy thinks he is somehow entitled to the other guy's job. Yes, I've "been there and done that", twice.

socalflyboy 05-23-2014 12:43 PM


Originally Posted by bbhnpd (Post 1650154)
If you're doing the same thing the day after the merger you were doing the day before the merger, you have no legitimate gripe. It doesn't matter that HIS 8 years of working for "X" bought him a Captain job and YOUR 12 years of working for "Y" bought YOU a F/O job. He is entitled to his Captain job (and the system seniority to continue to hold it...)_ and you remain entitled to your F/O job (and the system seniority to continue to hold it...).

99% of all this SLI BS is that one guy thinks he is somehow entitled to the other guy's job. Yes, I've "been there and done that", twice.

Okay..right on! I have a legit gripe! I'm not doing the same thing now as compared to the day before the sli....but, I think you summed it up the best..my side will not convince the other side, and vice versa...

Lerxst 05-23-2014 12:52 PM


Originally Posted by socalflyboy (Post 1650220)
Okay..right on! I have a legit gripe! I'm not doing the same thing now as compared to the day before the sli....but, I think you summed it up the best..my side will not convince the other side, and vice versa...

But back then you were a pixie dust spreader on the Tilt-a-Whirl.

krudawg 05-23-2014 08:27 PM


Originally Posted by Privateer20 (Post 1649977)
Just read all the blah blah blah on the other thread!

We pilots are some of the most selfish folks i know....shaped by our seniority system! The '96 hire from Ual is ****ed because he("lost 3 yrs") and they merged in with a guy hired in '99 from Cal. The Cal guy is ****ed because he cant hold Capt anymore. The '98 Ual hire is upset because they "lost 8 yrs" expecting that the '06 hire at Cal should just step aside and give up their seat because thats the way DOH works. The Cal '06 hire is thinking Cal woulda just been rainbows and unicorns for the rest of their career and this merger is total BS. Ual guys claiming junior Cal pilots made a seniority "grab".....nobody else senior wanted the f#$@ing seat! Would those same Ual guys have rather had the Den 737 capt seats go super senior to the Cal side?....after all it is Denver and EVERYbody wants to live there!??! The Cal Iah 767 guys are ****ed because of the Ual metal in their base. The 787 fence is hurting alot more on both sides than it is helping....most of the pain to the L-Ual widebodies its displacing, but looky here: its even hurting guys like me way out in Ewr...every person who bids out to sparky is being backfilled by a senior L-Ual guy.
Good luck winning your own argument with somebody who will NEVER see it your way! Now i gotta go pack the cooler.... good boating weekend ahead!

Like the great man of peace, Rodney King said "can't we all just get along"?????

untied 05-24-2014 03:32 AM


Originally Posted by bbhnpd (Post 1650154)
If you're doing the same thing the day after the merger you were doing the day before the merger, you have no legitimate gripe. It doesn't matter that HIS 8 years of working for "X" bought him a Captain job and YOUR 12 years of working for "Y" bought YOU a F/O job. He is entitled to his Captain job (and the system seniority to continue to hold it...)_ and you remain entitled to your F/O job (and the system seniority to continue to hold it...).

99% of all this SLI BS is that one guy thinks he is somehow entitled to the other guy's job. Yes, I've "been there and done that", twice.

That's got to be the dumbest thing I've ever read on this forum.

Someone may have been junior on the day of the merger, but with a great future. The SLI may have changed that...DRAMATICALLY!

If 1,000 guys who are younger than you are suddenly senior to you, you've been adversely affected.

If you don't get that, I just don't know what to say.

bbhnpd 05-27-2014 10:42 AM


Originally Posted by untied (Post 1650606)
That's got to be the dumbest thing I've ever read on this forum.

Someone may have been junior on the day of the merger, but with a great future. The SLI may have changed that...DRAMATICALLY!

If 1,000 guys who are younger than you are suddenly senior to you, you've been adversely affected.

If you don't get that, I just don't know what to say.

Your age doesn't trump their job. I guess you found that out, right?

untied 05-27-2014 02:20 PM


Originally Posted by bbhnpd (Post 1652457)
Your age doesn't trump their job. I guess you found that out, right?

What makes you think I was talking about myself?

My seniority worked out fine.

Just pointing out the stupidity of a remark that I've heard too many times.


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