Alaska Air Hiring
#3951
This is embarrassing. I am sorry I just don’t believe you. Have your pitty party, cry, throw a tantrum, no one will get behind your cause, it’s emotionally biased and full of exaggeration. I have seen Delta’s 737 lines in Seattle. You know what, they look a lot like ours.
#3952
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2018
Posts: 1,241
They only thing embarrassing here is your (sadly, ours now) contract! You don't have to believe me, and quite frankly I am not surprised. You have lived under a rock for far too long to see what's out there... I am not throwing tantrums, I am stating facts that you and some of your flying buddies are oblivious to. Instead of a pity party, I am trying to get out of here. Hopefully the door will hit me on the way out sooner than later.
Last edited by OTZeagle1; 03-10-2019 at 11:09 AM.
#3954
Because you drove from Gig Harbor to the airport at 5:00am and drove home to Gig Harbor after midnight on the last day. What works for you, does not work for most. How about trying a little empathy. Never mind, I know I’m wasting my time with you.
#3955
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2018
Posts: 694
When will you understand that our NON-UNION work rules were better than your ALPA contract?!!! Although all we had was a "hand shake" agreement, we enjoyed better life quality both as line holders and as reserves (as difficult that may be for you to comprehend).
What we brought to the "potluck" dinner (although it feels like last dinner on Titanic) is a pair of balls, something that not all but quite a few Alaskan pilots lack and a sense of reality. Not all of us live in Gig Harbor... Believe me there is life outside PNW.
You know why we are emotional...? Because we have lost the quality of life we were all accustomed to! How is it possible that after two pay raises (one back in January and the one coming up in April, almost 20 bucks more) I will make roughly $1500 - $ 2000 less a month than I did in 2018 while working 2 extra days? Can you riddle me this? And you still claim that we had nothing prior to your contract?!
So yeah, if you think that we are sometimes too emotional, you are damn right we are! It's hard to leave emotions on the side when you are constantly hearing how we were saved by the mighty Alaska Air but in reality if feels like we jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
What we brought to the "potluck" dinner (although it feels like last dinner on Titanic) is a pair of balls, something that not all but quite a few Alaskan pilots lack and a sense of reality. Not all of us live in Gig Harbor... Believe me there is life outside PNW.
You know why we are emotional...? Because we have lost the quality of life we were all accustomed to! How is it possible that after two pay raises (one back in January and the one coming up in April, almost 20 bucks more) I will make roughly $1500 - $ 2000 less a month than I did in 2018 while working 2 extra days? Can you riddle me this? And you still claim that we had nothing prior to your contract?!
So yeah, if you think that we are sometimes too emotional, you are damn right we are! It's hard to leave emotions on the side when you are constantly hearing how we were saved by the mighty Alaska Air but in reality if feels like we jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
You also are very astute at glossing over the fact that you came from a place that had as many contractual protections as you currently work under. Very little and nothing enforceable. AS pilots did not make you work at a shop that had no scope, less pay, had less vacation accrual, less retirement contribution and no enforceable contract. You chose that life when you went to VX. That life choice was made BEFORE AS acquired VX. Maybe after you were there for a while you decided it could be better and organized but that doesn't absolve you of your choice to work under those conditions in the first place. It most certainly does not give you right to play preacher at the pulpit now.
I too decided it could and should be better here at AS and was resolved to fight for better in '18 as many of us were. I've sent all the emails. I've attended the pickets. I've vocalized my discontent on the surveys. I've done all I can short of being given a vote. Please tell me what you're doing differently that constitutes have bigger "balls".
You may have had a better QOL at VX and that was your justification for going there in spite of not having the contractual protections you now demand. Even with a worse contract here than where I came from, I justify my decision because my QOL is still better than it was before. I see my family more and that's what matters to me. So does that make one of us less than the other? Is one of us to blame for the others lot in life?
I've never once stated AS saved VX. I've said VX did not put themselves in a position to have any better. It was too little too late. So again, you can continue your attacks on the Boeing pilots but it was YOU that made you bed. No L-AS did a God****ed thing to you!
#3956
Banned
Joined APC: Oct 2018
Posts: 443
Cute, you could have had 17 days off and another 100k (plus retirement) with proper work rules and scheduling language. I guess you hate more money AND time off...
#3957
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2014
Position: Captain B-737
Posts: 290
I love how these loud mouth VX’ers on here seem to believe that with them, “there’s a new sheriff in town”. You guys don’t know what you’re dealing with. Good Luck...what with your huge balls and all. LOL. I’ll check back in 2021 and see how the new Big balled Sheriffs have fared...oh, and I only made $365k last year. I commute.😬
Last edited by EskimoJoe; 03-10-2019 at 02:55 PM.
#3958
Banned
Joined APC: Apr 2017
Posts: 627
I love how these loud mouth VX’ers on here seem to believe that with them, “there’s a new sheriff in town”. You guys don’t know what you’re dealing with. Good Luck...what with your huge balls and all. LOL. I’ll check back in 2021 and see how the new Big balled Sheriffs have fared...oh, and I only made $365k last year. I commute.😬
#3959
For what it’s worth.....b***hing about stuff that happened in the past (on either side) isn’t gonna help us going forward.
I had a chance to meet the new ALA union chairs as well as the MEC this week and as a former VX’er? I can say without a shadow of a doubt, that this union leadership is solid!!
I had my doubts at first, I’ll admit. But every single committee chair, regardless of prior airline has the same unified stance now. It was really incredibly to witness. I’m super fired up and motivated, just like the rest of the union.
We’ve got to maintain unity going forward. Like it or not.....this is OUR airline now. So let’s do what we can to make it a better place.
I had a chance to meet the new ALA union chairs as well as the MEC this week and as a former VX’er? I can say without a shadow of a doubt, that this union leadership is solid!!
I had my doubts at first, I’ll admit. But every single committee chair, regardless of prior airline has the same unified stance now. It was really incredibly to witness. I’m super fired up and motivated, just like the rest of the union.
We’ve got to maintain unity going forward. Like it or not.....this is OUR airline now. So let’s do what we can to make it a better place.
#3960
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2014
Posts: 304
I love how these loud mouth VX’ers on here seem to believe that with them, “there’s a new sheriff in town”. You guys don’t know what you’re dealing with. Good Luck...what with your huge balls and all. LOL. I’ll check back in 2021 and see how the new Big balled Sheriffs have fared...
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