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10-18-2014, 05:25 PM
#7101
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2014
Position: rj left
Posts: 118
Just made my quarterly visit to the SAPA forums, specifically the Negotiating Update thread, breathtaking, absolutely stupendous in its staggering stupidity. Hard to believe some of the posters posses a drivers license, much less a pilots certificate. The junior guys have dispensed with the "get out of my seat, old man" cry and have distilled it down to "let's take it from the top seniority captains and give it to the new hires"
Ebola is knocking on the door, and the airline industry is tanking, ISIL is looking to immigrate to the USA, all they need is to do is get some virgin seekers infected, ship them to Paris and every other major airport, wait fo symptoms, then cough, sneezing and touching everything in the non secure areas, or get some jobs in the restaurants and infect legions of travelers to the U.S. The EMB120 is going away as well, I think I will call Shane L. and let him know I wont make a peep if he wants to furlough, heck maybe I wlould even take a right seat qual to help out if he furloughs too many, might need to buy another boat or get the wife some new bolt ons....two way street butwipes. I no longer "need this job" heck, maybe age 67 might even get me a new vacation house with a Turbo Carrera in the heated garage......
Ebola is knocking on the door, and the airline industry is tanking, ISIL is looking to immigrate to the USA, all they need is to do is get some virgin seekers infected, ship them to Paris and every other major airport, wait fo symptoms, then cough, sneezing and touching everything in the non secure areas, or get some jobs in the restaurants and infect legions of travelers to the U.S. The EMB120 is going away as well, I think I will call Shane L. and let him know I wont make a peep if he wants to furlough, heck maybe I wlould even take a right seat qual to help out if he furloughs too many, might need to buy another boat or get the wife some new bolt ons....two way street butwipes. I no longer "need this job" heck, maybe age 67 might even get me a new vacation house with a Turbo Carrera in the heated garage......
10-18-2014, 05:52 PM
#7102
MK Ultra Candidate
Joined APC: Feb 2013
Position: Prime Leader of Boko Harumph
Posts: 1,167
Ahh... More wise words from the alcoholic lifer, unable to move one. Pathetic and sad.
I've flown with a couple loud mouths like this, it's always interesting. At some point they will do something really stupid, and I just shake my head as I either fix their mistake or watch them make up stupid excuses.
Fortunately jackasses like our resident drunken ranter are very rare. Most folks here are good guys/ladies, and are fun to fly with and even hang out with outside of work. I do feel sorry for him, it's rather sad to witness quite honestly.
I've flown with a couple loud mouths like this, it's always interesting. At some point they will do something really stupid, and I just shake my head as I either fix their mistake or watch them make up stupid excuses.
Fortunately jackasses like our resident drunken ranter are very rare. Most folks here are good guys/ladies, and are fun to fly with and even hang out with outside of work. I do feel sorry for him, it's rather sad to witness quite honestly.
10-18-2014, 06:08 PM
#7103
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: B767
Posts: 1,901
That's ok, i have read your posts as well, you aren't quite as smart as you think, and that's ok. You keep on saving the poor unlucky unqualified captains from themselves, the airline industry is in dire need of your expertise. I hear GoJets is hiring street captains, maybe Mesa needs your mad skills as well. How's that airline jumping thing working for ya?
But I have very little tolerance for condescending jerks, and at this point I've seen enough to know such attitudes are created by high levels of insecurity. Maybe they're afraid of the airplane or aviation, or a bad home life, etc. It's very predictable, and it's not something I enjoy witnessing.
10-18-2014, 06:21 PM
#7104
MK Ultra Candidate
Joined APC: Feb 2013
Position: Prime Leader of Boko Harumph
Posts: 1,167
That's the thing though... I know I'm not the ace of the base. As soon as I start to feel cocky, the aviation gods very swiftly put me in my place. I'm fortunate to do something I enjoy, at a fairly decent company, with mostly really great mentors and co-workers. Most of the folks I fly with are awesome, very experienced, and leave me learning new and better ways to improve myself as a professional pilot.
But I have very little tolerance for condescending jerks, and at this point I've seen enough to know such attitudes are created by high levels of insecurity. Maybe they're afraid of the airplane or aviation, or a bad home life, etc. It's very predictable, and it's not something I enjoy witnessing.
But I have very little tolerance for condescending jerks, and at this point I've seen enough to know such attitudes are created by high levels of insecurity. Maybe they're afraid of the airplane or aviation, or a bad home life, etc. It's very predictable, and it's not something I enjoy witnessing.
Excerpt from another forum, not yours, but another guy:
"They should attack the highest earners to cut cost, thats the people who have the most flexibility with there schedules and manipulate their schedules to maximize their pay. You want cheap labor get the top 3rd of the company out of the way and that would change many things for the company. Its simple math. Regionals are supposed to be a temporary career progression."
This is what prompted this latest rant. Oddly almost every time I go to those forums I am profoundly disappointed, I guess I keep hoping that this type of stuff would go away, but it has actually increased.
So while 911 jammed my career and that gift that kept on giving, was destiny, I am no more lifer than any newhire, I was looking for a job then and I am still looking, just like you and many others here. So you keep on applying as I still update my stuff whenever I get the chance, let's say it's often.
Last edited by ClickClickBoom; 10-18-2014 at 06:31 PM.
10-18-2014, 06:27 PM
#7105
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: B767
Posts: 1,901
I never posted that. Why would you even say that?
10-18-2014, 06:41 PM
#7106
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Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: B767
Posts: 1,901
Nice editing on your last post there... So you discovered that was actually posted by a senior FO! Senior enough to be a CA even.
I don't think any of us should take paycuts. Not you, me, or a new hire. We as pilots are finally in a position of strength on the demand side, so why we would even entertain the thought of paycuts is beyond my comprehension. On that, I hope we can both agree.
I don't think any of us should take paycuts. Not you, me, or a new hire. We as pilots are finally in a position of strength on the demand side, so why we would even entertain the thought of paycuts is beyond my comprehension. On that, I hope we can both agree.
10-18-2014, 06:43 PM
#7107
MK Ultra Candidate
Joined APC: Feb 2013
Position: Prime Leader of Boko Harumph
Posts: 1,167
10-18-2014, 06:47 PM
#7108
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Joined APC: Feb 2013
Position: Prime Leader of Boko Harumph
Posts: 1,167
10-18-2014, 07:06 PM
#7109
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Joined APC: May 2009
Posts: 2,035
PRIA requests are hitting the fan, corporate panic is occurring behind closed doors. They will do the obvious corporate response, using their own "special" logic. Scream paycuts and threaten furlough, these guys have had legions of pilots begging at their doorstep for years, and have truly forgotten how to create a reasonable workplace.
Remember there are 2 Skywests, the line and reserve, the line is ok as long as you don't have to deal with SGU, reserve will have you regretting not hanging yourself at birth with your own umbilical cord. The stupidity and general lack of caring that come out of SS is staggering, it had me, a 10+ year Capt, ready to quit after a couple of years on reserve in a reserve only base. Many days driving to the airport to sit 6 hours of ready reserve, and do nothing had me itching to turn my ID in. To all you future reserves, spend as much time with your family as you can before, because you won't see them much after starting.
Remember there are 2 Skywests, the line and reserve, the line is ok as long as you don't have to deal with SGU, reserve will have you regretting not hanging yourself at birth with your own umbilical cord. The stupidity and general lack of caring that come out of SS is staggering, it had me, a 10+ year Capt, ready to quit after a couple of years on reserve in a reserve only base. Many days driving to the airport to sit 6 hours of ready reserve, and do nothing had me itching to turn my ID in. To all you future reserves, spend as much time with your family as you can before, because you won't see them much after starting.
SFO based?
10-18-2014, 07:09 PM
#7110
MK Ultra Candidate
Joined APC: Feb 2013
Position: Prime Leader of Boko Harumph
Posts: 1,167
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