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Would you have me call someone whose vote was affected a sucker? Because I won't say it did or didn't. What I will say is why did he say such a thing at the time he wrote it? The man is not an idiot. He wrote that with the intention of swaying the vote, because he obviously believes we do have enough suckers in our group to fall for such a statement. His hope was that out of desperation, the junior pilots who are suffering the most from the greatest stagnation seen by any of us in a long time would buy off on it. That he'd get at least some percentage to take it into consideration in weighing all the factors when they cast their vote. So whether it had an effect or not, is not the point. The point is that in writing what he did to our group he showed a bit of his inner self. Judge from that what you will.
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Considering I find his posts rational and well thought out, that doesn't say a whole lot for a fairly sizable seniority demographic, who 6 years ago could have left and been Captains at Virgin America if they hated Delta or NWA so much. Oh what's that you say? They're making more in the right seat here?
I'm gonna start calling anyone hired between 2000-2008 the "broken promise" generation.
I'm gonna start calling anyone hired between 2000-2008 the "broken promise" generation.
That is a pretty broad brush you are painting with. The fact that both of the concerned Pilots referenced above pretty much fit that demographic (recent DAL Hires), and are offering opposing points of view, kind of refutes your statement.
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I guess the piece you're missing, Johnso is the fact that SD did not err by omission. He decided to put that statement in there. It was a sales tool. Everyone is correct about this: some guys say it wasn't a promise, some guys say it was an attempt to sway votes.
SD lost a little credibility, but the bottom line is that hiring is a by-product of advancement ONLY after any surplusses have been absorbed. We can't feel it when a new pilot is hired, only when we move forward or backwards. We're inching forward after a long post-merger slide. We're hungry for more, and more seems to be on its' way. Let's believe it's here when more actually shows up.
SD lost a little credibility, but the bottom line is that hiring is a by-product of advancement ONLY after any surplusses have been absorbed. We can't feel it when a new pilot is hired, only when we move forward or backwards. We're inching forward after a long post-merger slide. We're hungry for more, and more seems to be on its' way. Let's believe it's here when more actually shows up.
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As far as Johnson's Cheerleader routine. I would be pretty optimistic if I was hired at 28 and was 32 now. But let him be furloughed for half a decade, sit as a FO for 23 years and he would be a little less optimistic and more cynical.
In reality everything that all of the pessimist talk about has come true in that most continue to move backwards, they continue to delay hiring(not only that they openly admit that mother delta does not want to hire pilots), it appears they will continue 757 retirements to fund vacancies following the DC9's. So no matter how good Johnson and Sailing say it is the reality is nothing has come to fruition yet. Will it happen, who knows but as of now it appears they will do everything in there power to prevent hiring or progression. Now what I will say is..... if the pilot group could avoid flying white and green slips for a few months I feel confident we could get the hiring machine started.
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I guess the piece you're missing, Johnso is the fact that SD did not err by omission. He decided to put that statement in there. It was a sales tool. Everyone is correct about this: some guys say it wasn't a promise, some guys say it was an attempt to sway votes.
SD lost a little credibility, but the bottom line is that hiring is a by-product of advancement ONLY after any surplusses have been absorbed. We can't feel it when a new pilot is hired, only when we move forward or backwards. We're inching forward after a long post-merger slide. We're hungry for more, and more seems to be on its' way. Let's believe it's here when more actually shows up.
SD lost a little credibility, but the bottom line is that hiring is a by-product of advancement ONLY after any surplusses have been absorbed. We can't feel it when a new pilot is hired, only when we move forward or backwards. We're inching forward after a long post-merger slide. We're hungry for more, and more seems to be on its' way. Let's believe it's here when more actually shows up.
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I didn't ask you to call them suckers. I asked if you felt they should have allowed their vote to be swayed by his statement. Let's be honest, SD did not have to mention the possibility of hiring. I never have, nor will defend his statement. He(they) may have been attempting to sway voters. But is this not the typical political games we play? How many times will we let Lucy yank the ball mid kick before we stop attempting the kick? So either we base our vote on the TA alone, or we continue to fall prey to politics. At some point, the blame lies on us too.
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SD is there to manage Flight Ops. He answers to his superiors, and his first job is to back them up. Doesn't make him mean, or cruel, or weird. If the choice is between expanding a little credibility to support the mission, or to gain more trust at the expense of some votes, pragmatism invariably yields a sales job.
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I personally feel he was used or he intended to deceive us. And he's too smart to be used.
As I recall, the company hired a high-dollar labor-busting consultant to mind-**** us into passing the TA. My guess is, those guys passed out scripts to management, dictating who said what, when. SD just played his part, same as any other two-bit airline exec would.
The "Delta Way" seems to be a one-way street. Especially at contract time.
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