Skyhawk121

OOOO pick this one!

Nevjets

I was just curious as well because you don't work for Skywest and yet you were replying to someone else who doesn't work for Skywest about being so concerned with its union situation despite him not working for Skywest. Not a very complicated thought process as for the reason to basically ask you the same question you are asking of someone else who doesn't work at Skywest.

gsphuntr

Spent 13 years with SKYW - I called in sick/emer for many years with no repercussions or hearing a word - HOWEVER, the "CP meeting" calls regarding "reliability" DID BEGIN around the mid 2015 time frame - those denying it are delusional. There were guys who called in sick for the first time in years that were insulted and intimidated by CP calls regarding their "reliability"... anyhow, carry on with your childish antics - it's mildly entertaining.
p.s. the grass is greener in the unionized pasture.

gsphuntr

not "paying away" anything you fool.... basically buying protection and representation for my 10+ million dollar career.

Would you get a divorce without an attorney? Would you get an attorney if you were falsely accused of a crime? Why not just represent yourself? Do you drive uninsured? do you insure your house? Do you invest on whims and dumb luck? Or do you use advisors and/or professionally guided mutual funds? life insurance? Maybe you do none of that? You're just an expert at everything...

I "pay away" $100 a year to "belong" to Costco...why? Because it saves me thousands over the course of a year...

I pay 1.5 percent to the IPA, because it costs money to provide the service they do which happen to be PRICELESS.

look man, there are countless things you "pay away" for in your life for legal and fiscal protection and you probably don't even realize it. To not do so for your careers best interest is absolutely mind blowing to 95 percent of your fellow aviators. But, like I said, carry on - it's entertaining.

DirkDiggler

Best response in this thread.

Nevjets

Do you know if DD or anyone else doesn't own a considerable amount of SKYW stock before making those comments or do you just assume they don't?

DirkDiggler

I would hope people are more diversified in their portfolios. Putting a big allocation to a single airline stock is not the wisest move. If anything it would be best to hedge by buying puts on SKYW or be long another stock with a negative correlation.

DirkDiggler

No. I trade futures only. And if you were even more advanced you could also write out of the money naked calls and collect the premium. Buying options is for suckers, selling them to suckers is where the money is at.

Nevjets

You called him out for not being an employee and discussing union issues at Skywest. So I called you out for the same. Then you said you are an owner. So I said he (or other non-employees commenting on this Skywest union thread) may be an owners as well. In other words, you may be calling out people hypocritically.

Nevjets

Do you pay this much attention to employee/management relations to all the other companies you owe stock in?