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07-09-2011, 12:54 PM
#2712
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Joined APC: Apr 2009
Position: CL-65 / Gear Wrangler
Posts: 321
It's a lot like that, but unlike Andy who gets a rain "shower", you can never catch a "shower" so basically when you're not there, you're still permanently covered in the $h.t and stink.
Ya, it's like that.
07-09-2011, 02:14 PM
#2713
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Joined APC: Apr 2009
Posts: 936
Remember the scene in Shawshank Redemption where Andy "crawled through a river of $h.t"...
It's a lot like that, but unlike Andy who gets a rain "shower", you can never catch a "shower" so basically when you're not there, you're still permanently covered in the $h.t and stink.
Ya, it's like that.
It's a lot like that, but unlike Andy who gets a rain "shower", you can never catch a "shower" so basically when you're not there, you're still permanently covered in the $h.t and stink.
Ya, it's like that.
07-09-2011, 07:13 PM
#2715
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
Posts: 253
I doubt he does, because it doesn't suck at Skywest like it does at PDT (as a matter of fact, I here he's doing quite well over there. ;-) ) Let the man have some poetic freedom... I for one swam through that sewer for a few years. Loved the crews and loved flying the Dash, hated working for PDT. I fly an old piston twin 402 now and couldn't be happier, to show you how things were at PDT.
07-09-2011, 08:37 PM
#2716
Kerbal Rocket Surgeon
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: DTW 717A
Posts: 1,099
PDT has become a sub-regional for FO's unfortunately. The same is only partially true for the CA side, as only some major airlines have been looking less favorably on turboprop pic. In the past year somewhere around 80 PDT FOs have jumped ship to other regional airlines hoping to establish jet pic.
07-09-2011, 09:59 PM
#2718
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Joined APC: Apr 2009
Position: CL-65 / Gear Wrangler
Posts: 321
I don't even complain here. I absolutely love my job, the company, and the people I've worked with so far (except one guy, but hey every place has that 1-2%).
If this place paid better (like a major), I'd stay here till I retire.
So to answer your question Dashtrash300, EMPHATICALLY NO I do not complain that much at Skywest, actually the opposite, I talk this place up and I'd be happy to go out of my way to help those I know get in here so they can find a measure of happiness and job satisfaction that is a universe away from the misery found at PDT. I am as happy as can be, in a way I never thought I'd be in this career after being at PDT. Working here is honestly the 2nd greatest source of satisfaction in my life second to my wife and our awesome kittens.
I'll put it this way, I'm like a rescued animal. I was skeptical at first that I had it this good, now I've begun to trust and enjoy "life"/working again. But if I ever see the person that abused me, I'll hiss, attack, bark at, etc at them.
That "person" is Piedmont, any time I hear about the shady crap they pull, I get mad. Any time someone thinks about going there, I want them to know what they are walking into, because I can't in good conscience sit back and not say anything especially when someone is asking about or planning to go to such a toxic and abusive place.
Be it a 402, a DHC-8, CRJ or 747, pay people to do their job (without cheating them out of pay), and treat them like professionals, with respect and dignity, and people will find enjoyment and satisfaction in what they do. You will never find that at PDT, and that's half the reason why I will always continue to "Hiss at" Piedmont, they are the abuser that will never change.
Trash, you should apply for a management position, with your steady defense of the company as far back as the "apologize to Jay" thing, and downplaying the (to put it mild-ly) "frustrations" of your fellow PDT pilots, you'd do well.
If this place paid better (like a major), I'd stay here till I retire.
So to answer your question Dashtrash300, EMPHATICALLY NO I do not complain that much at Skywest, actually the opposite, I talk this place up and I'd be happy to go out of my way to help those I know get in here so they can find a measure of happiness and job satisfaction that is a universe away from the misery found at PDT. I am as happy as can be, in a way I never thought I'd be in this career after being at PDT. Working here is honestly the 2nd greatest source of satisfaction in my life second to my wife and our awesome kittens.
I'll put it this way, I'm like a rescued animal. I was skeptical at first that I had it this good, now I've begun to trust and enjoy "life"/working again. But if I ever see the person that abused me, I'll hiss, attack, bark at, etc at them.
That "person" is Piedmont, any time I hear about the shady crap they pull, I get mad. Any time someone thinks about going there, I want them to know what they are walking into, because I can't in good conscience sit back and not say anything especially when someone is asking about or planning to go to such a toxic and abusive place.
Be it a 402, a DHC-8, CRJ or 747, pay people to do their job (without cheating them out of pay), and treat them like professionals, with respect and dignity, and people will find enjoyment and satisfaction in what they do. You will never find that at PDT, and that's half the reason why I will always continue to "Hiss at" Piedmont, they are the abuser that will never change.
Trash, you should apply for a management position, with your steady defense of the company as far back as the "apologize to Jay" thing, and downplaying the (to put it mild-ly) "frustrations" of your fellow PDT pilots, you'd do well.
07-10-2011, 06:53 AM
#2719
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Joined APC: Apr 2009
Posts: 936
I don't even complain here. I absolutely love my job, the company, and the people I've worked with so far (except one guy, but hey every place has that 1-2%).
If this place paid better (like a major), I'd stay here till I retire.
So to answer your question Dashtrash300, EMPHATICALLY NO I do not complain that much at Skywest, actually the opposite, I talk this place up and I'd be happy to go out of my way to help those I know get in here so they can find a measure of happiness and job satisfaction that is a universe away from the misery found at PDT. I am as happy as can be, in a way I never thought I'd be in this career after being at PDT. Working here is honestly the 2nd greatest source of satisfaction in my life second to my wife and our awesome kittens.
I'll put it this way, I'm like a rescued animal. I was skeptical at first that I had it this good, now I've begun to trust and enjoy "life"/working again. But if I ever see the person that abused me, I'll hiss, attack, bark at, etc at them.
That "person" is Piedmont, any time I hear about the shady crap they pull, I get mad. Any time someone thinks about going there, I want them to know what they are walking into, because I can't in good conscience sit back and not say anything especially when someone is asking about or planning to go to such a toxic and abusive place.
Be it a 402, a DHC-8, CRJ or 747, pay people to do their job (without cheating them out of pay), and treat them like professionals, with respect and dignity, and people will find enjoyment and satisfaction in what they do. You will never find that at PDT, and that's half the reason why I will always continue to "Hiss at" Piedmont, they are the abuser that will never change.
Trash, you should apply for a management position, with your steady defense of the company as far back as the "apologize to Jay" thing, and downplaying the (to put it mild-ly) "frustrations" of your fellow PDT pilots, you'd do well.
If this place paid better (like a major), I'd stay here till I retire.
So to answer your question Dashtrash300, EMPHATICALLY NO I do not complain that much at Skywest, actually the opposite, I talk this place up and I'd be happy to go out of my way to help those I know get in here so they can find a measure of happiness and job satisfaction that is a universe away from the misery found at PDT. I am as happy as can be, in a way I never thought I'd be in this career after being at PDT. Working here is honestly the 2nd greatest source of satisfaction in my life second to my wife and our awesome kittens.
I'll put it this way, I'm like a rescued animal. I was skeptical at first that I had it this good, now I've begun to trust and enjoy "life"/working again. But if I ever see the person that abused me, I'll hiss, attack, bark at, etc at them.
That "person" is Piedmont, any time I hear about the shady crap they pull, I get mad. Any time someone thinks about going there, I want them to know what they are walking into, because I can't in good conscience sit back and not say anything especially when someone is asking about or planning to go to such a toxic and abusive place.
Be it a 402, a DHC-8, CRJ or 747, pay people to do their job (without cheating them out of pay), and treat them like professionals, with respect and dignity, and people will find enjoyment and satisfaction in what they do. You will never find that at PDT, and that's half the reason why I will always continue to "Hiss at" Piedmont, they are the abuser that will never change.
Trash, you should apply for a management position, with your steady defense of the company as far back as the "apologize to Jay" thing, and downplaying the (to put it mild-ly) "frustrations" of your fellow PDT pilots, you'd do well.
07-10-2011, 07:13 AM
#2720
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Joined APC: Sep 2009
Position: B737 F/O
Posts: 425
Don't think about it in this fashion; they're not holding your career up. You just need to make the moves required to further your career. Rocketman, Piedmontster, others, and myself have all moved on. Yeah, we all had to start over at the bottom of the list, but at this point, your seniority at PDT is just a sunk cost.
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