Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
12-01-2013, 11:20 AM
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12-01-2013, 11:39 AM
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12-01-2013, 11:44 AM
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Best if the dull witted line pilots just let DALPA think for us without thought or input.
After all we are getting a 3% pay increase January 1st. This coupled with a 33% reduction in profit sharing, increased medical costs and inflation equals a pay cut. Even a sharp DALPA guy like you can do that math.
But the good news for guys like you is the fact that Delta can afford to increase Chief Operating Officer Steve Gorman's pay 60.8%. (of his non bankruptcy pay)
When I read your posts all I can think is you must be one of the DALPA first officers getting 92 hours of captain pay plus $1000 a month plus all meal expenses. Must be nice.
12-01-2013, 11:47 AM
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12-01-2013, 11:50 AM
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12-01-2013, 12:03 PM
Straight QOL, homie
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And while I'm at it...is anyone else put off by the yearly requests for holiday tips, I mean, contributions, for the CPO staff? Apparently they haul in several hundred bucks each. Sure, they replenish the ear plug dispenser, and often help us when we need it...occasionally even cheerfully. but that is why they are being paid.
Bah, humbug.
12-01-2013, 12:03 PM
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I went out of JFK on Wednesday. By the coffee machine there was a pile of cookies, pretzels, and M & M's off the airplane, which I assumed was our Pre-Thanksgiving "treat." No problem. It wasn't Thanksgiving and if they were going to do something special, doing it on the next day made sense to me. Until…..
…one of our flight attendants showed us the pictures she took of the FULL BUFFET (Turkey, dressing, pumpkin pie, etc.) they had in the flight attendant lounge at the same time.
I brushed it off, because I thought she might have been playing a joke on us.
But, now all I can say is: Really?
Did the flight attendants really have a buffet in JFK the day before Thanksgiving, too?
…one of our flight attendants showed us the pictures she took of the FULL BUFFET (Turkey, dressing, pumpkin pie, etc.) they had in the flight attendant lounge at the same time.
I brushed it off, because I thought she might have been playing a joke on us.
But, now all I can say is: Really?
Did the flight attendants really have a buffet in JFK the day before Thanksgiving, too?
I had the holiday off, but regardless, it would've been nice for the company to go a little above the menial gesture of providing a meal for pilots who had to work over the holiday.
A nice, hot buffet served by a manger from the chief pilot's office would be much more genuine of gesture as opposed to a brown bag filled with a constructive-engagement turkey and good faith mashed potatoes. Granted it is the thought that counts, but sometimes it's also the degree of effort.
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12-01-2013, 12:14 PM
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12-01-2013, 12:23 PM
Back on TDY
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I went out of JFK on Wednesday. By the coffee machine there was a pile of cookies, pretzels, and M & M's off the airplane, which I assumed was our Pre-Thanksgiving "treat." No problem. It wasn't Thanksgiving and if they were going to do something special, doing it on the next day made sense to me. Until…..
…one of our flight attendants showed us the pictures she took of the FULL BUFFET (Turkey, dressing, pumpkin pie, etc.) they had in the flight attendant lounge at the same time.
I brushed it off, because I thought she might have been playing a joke on us.
But, now all I can say is: Really?
Did the flight attendants really have a buffet in JFK the day before Thanksgiving, too?
…one of our flight attendants showed us the pictures she took of the FULL BUFFET (Turkey, dressing, pumpkin pie, etc.) they had in the flight attendant lounge at the same time.
I brushed it off, because I thought she might have been playing a joke on us.
But, now all I can say is: Really?
Did the flight attendants really have a buffet in JFK the day before Thanksgiving, too?
Oh wait...
Carl
12-01-2013, 12:24 PM
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I know this is a loaded statement and I'll probably get slack for it....I'm sure there was a time when management over-catered to pilots and spoiled them, but know we have gone so far in the opposite direction it's pathetic.
I had the holiday off, but regardless, it would've been nice for the company to go a little above the menial gesture if providing meal for pilots who had to work on a holiday.
A nice, hot buffet served by a manger from the chief pilot's office would be much more genuine of gesture as opposed to a brown bag filled with a constructive-engagement turkey and good faith mashed potatoes. Granted it is the thought that counts, but sometimes it's also the degree of effort.
I had the holiday off, but regardless, it would've been nice for the company to go a little above the menial gesture if providing meal for pilots who had to work on a holiday.
A nice, hot buffet served by a manger from the chief pilot's office would be much more genuine of gesture as opposed to a brown bag filled with a constructive-engagement turkey and good faith mashed potatoes. Granted it is the thought that counts, but sometimes it's also the degree of effort.
I'm also grateful that I'm not carrying those extra 3-5 pounds everyone is complaining about after this weekend.
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