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Old 05-23-2023, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by NuGuy
The AirTran/SWA was not a staple. It was, in some ways, unfavorable to parts of their seniority list, but it was not a staple.
Correct. And it was version 2.0. The first one the AirTran MEC wouldn’t let the membership vote on and the MEC rejected it. WN mgt got irritated and 2.0 was worse!
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Old 05-24-2023, 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted by tropical
is that your super mature "i know you are but what am i" response?

Cognitive decline is real.
😂 🤡..........
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Old 05-24-2023, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Fourpaw
BTW, tried the non-rev group and got nothing.
I've given up on that group. Ask any question and 50 gate agents and FA's immediately bite your head off, telling you to use the search function and that you have no idea how difficult their jobs are.
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Old 05-24-2023, 09:44 AM
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Sad this is the “latest and greatest”.

carry on

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Old 05-24-2023, 01:11 PM
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Sad this is the “latest and greatest”.

carry on

I mean don’t we all look forward to Tropical and JB pi$$ing contests?!?
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Old 05-25-2023, 08:30 AM
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Old news here but figured I'd follow up with my experience with enrolling in and taking Delta's Emergency Savings Program (ESP) course through Fidelity. It was death by power point. Probably 4-5 hours worth of CBTs in total which are dolled out over a couple months as you progress through the course. There was an hour long listening-in-only phone conference hosted by Fidelity. On the day I forgot about the conference and joined it in the final 20 minutes, but still got credit for attending the phone conference and was able to move forward. The final hoop to jump through was a 30 minute one-on-one phone call with a Financial Coach from Fidelity. Our conversation was brief because I made it known early on that I had most of my ducks already in a row concerning the saving techniques they push through the course.

Now that the money has all settled in the cash account you're guided to set up inside your Netbenefits Account at the beginning of the course I've set up a transfer to my external bank account. No strings attached to the money, once it's in your account it's yours to do with as you please. Because you're also required to set up a $$ amount to save while you go through the course which comes out of each paycheck and is deposited into that cash account I ended the course with over $1700 in the account. That money should be in my external bank account before the end of the month.

The whole process took approx four months.

Did I learn anything new by taking the ESP course? Not really.
Are there people at Delta who benefit from the course? Sure. I'd say it's a valuable offering from Delta and Fidelity to eligible employees.
Would I do it again? Yep! Next time I'll have my oldest child (under 10) do it together with me and at the end they'll get the bonus money.

Happy to answer any questions.
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Old 05-25-2023, 08:39 AM
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Old news here but figured I'd follow up with my experience with enrolling in and taking Delta's Emergency Savings Program (ESP) course through Fidelity. It was death by power point. Probably 4-5 hours worth of CBTs in total which are dolled out over a couple months as you progress through the course. There was an hour long listening-in-only phone conference hosted by Fidelity. On the day I forgot about the conference and joined it in the final 20 minutes, but still got credit for attending the phone conference and was able to move forward. The final hoop to jump through was a 30 minute one-on-one phone call with a Financial Coach from Fidelity. Our conversation was brief because I made it known early on that I had most of my ducks already in a row concerning the saving techniques they push through the course.

Now that the money has all settled in the cash account you're guided to set up inside your Netbenefits Account at the beginning of the course I've set up a transfer to my external bank account. No strings attached to the money, once it's in your account it's yours to do with as you please. Because you're also required to set up a $$ amount to save while you go through the course which comes out of each paycheck and is deposited into that cash account I ended the course with over $1700 in the account. That money should be in my external bank account before the end of the month.

The whole process took approx four months.

Did I learn anything new by taking the ESP course? Not really.
Are there people at Delta who benefit from the course? Sure. I'd say it's a valuable offering from Delta and Fidelity to eligible employees.
Would I do it again? Yep! Next time I'll have my oldest child (under 10) do it together with me and at the end they'll get the bonus money.

Happy to answer any questions.
I'd have to go look, but you can either set it where it only maxes at out the minimum $250, or just cancel the payroll deductions after the first settles. I kept missing the second phone call with the Fidelity person because my phone was marking it as spam. I still need to finish that. I thought I had read something from the company that they were going to somehow move up the final payment, but last I checked the money hadn't hit my fidelity account.
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Old 05-25-2023, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by game
Old news here but figured I'd follow up with my experience with enrolling in and taking Delta's Emergency Savings Program (ESP) course through Fidelity. It was death by power point. Probably 4-5 hours worth of CBTs in total which are dolled out over a couple months as you progress through the course. There was an hour long listening-in-only phone conference hosted by Fidelity. On the day I forgot about the conference and joined it in the final 20 minutes, but still got credit for attending the phone conference and was able to move forward. The final hoop to jump through was a 30 minute one-on-one phone call with a Financial Coach from Fidelity. Our conversation was brief because I made it known early on that I had most of my ducks already in a row concerning the saving techniques they push through the course.

Now that the money has all settled in the cash account you're guided to set up inside your Netbenefits Account at the beginning of the course I've set up a transfer to my external bank account. No strings attached to the money, once it's in your account it's yours to do with as you please. Because you're also required to set up a $$ amount to save while you go through the course which comes out of each paycheck and is deposited into that cash account I ended the course with over $1700 in the account. That money should be in my external bank account before the end of the month.

The whole process took approx four months.

Did I learn anything new by taking the ESP course? Not really.
Are there people at Delta who benefit from the course? Sure. I'd say it's a valuable offering from Delta and Fidelity to eligible employees.
Would I do it again? Yep! Next time I'll have my oldest child (under 10) do it together with me and at the end they'll get the bonus money.

Happy to answer any questions.
That sounds really painful. How do you figure it was worth your time to do that? I keep thinking I should just do it but then I read stuff like this and there are a million other things I’d rather do (including, but not limited to, going to the dentist or mowing my lawn or getting a Brazilian bikini wax).
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Old 05-25-2023, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Nantonaku
That sounds really painful. How do you figure it was worth your time to do that? I keep thinking I should just do it but then I read stuff like this and there are a million other things I’d rather do (including, but not limited to, going to the dentist or mowing my lawn or getting a Brazilian bikini wax).
I won't speak for game, but I did the PowerPoints on the employee shuttle every time I would show up for a trip. Wasted time anyway. Most of the videos you can just click at the end of it on the scroll bar and it gives you credit. I spent way less time than they spent, but that's just me. I didn't pay attention to any of the stuff, just clicked through. And I called in to the 1 hour presentation on my ipad and left the room and did other things. I probably put half an hour of actual effort into the program. Pretty decent return on investment for $1000. 🤣
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Old 05-25-2023, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Nantonaku
That sounds really painful. How do you figure it was worth your time to do that? I keep thinking I should just do it but then I read stuff like this and there are a million other things I’d rather do (including, but not limited to, going to the dentist or mowing my lawn or getting a Brazilian bikini wax).
I also just completed the course, and it was not nearly as painful. I spent probably 1 hour actually focusing on the program. You can skip all the videos and the other stuff clicks through pretty quickly. Some questions where you have to type in an answer but just a couple of sentences suffice. For the group phone chat I simply had that in the background while I worked on my taxes. My one-on-one phone call was 14 minutes. So I got $1000 for an hour, maybe 1:15 of actual time. Yes there are hoops you have to jump through, but if you're spending 4-5 hours on everything you're doing it wrong.
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