PBS
03-20-2017, 05:20 AM
#47
Abused Spouse of PBS
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Only thing I don't like about PBS is the fact that I can't bid a reserve line as a back up to a line if above the g line. Example....I want specific trips and if I don't get them I want to be on reserve. Above the g line you will get the reserve line for some reason, even if the trips you want are available.....seems to be an abrogation of seniority.
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03-20-2017, 06:40 PM
#48
Gets Weekends Off
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Joined APC: Aug 2013
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PBS is a company (management) administered pilot staffing and bidding system. It does both. We as pilots (as well as ALPA) have no input on staffing. Therefore, it doesn't matter how smart you are. You can't out-smart a math problem, where one variable is unknown, and the other variable is out of your control.
ALPA's input and control/supervision of Management's bidding/staffing system is just lipstick on a pig. It's very minimal and lacks oversight.
Once you strip all the bells and whistles and shine off of it, it's a Ford Etzel.
03-20-2017, 06:51 PM
#49
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"That's why we're all here, right? To celebrate E Day, the date 50 years ago when Ford took one of the autodom's most hilarious pratfalls. But why? It really wasn't that bad a car. True, the car was kind of homely, fuel thirsty and too expensive, particularly at the outset of the late '50s recession. But what else? It was the first victim of Madison Avenue hyper-hype. Ford's marketing mavens had led the public to expect some plutonium-powered, pancake-making wondercar; what they got was a Mercury. Cultural critics speculated that the car was a flop because the vertical grill looked like a vagina. Maybe. America in the '50s was certainly phobic about the female business. How did the Edsel come to be synonymous with failure? All of the above, consolidated into an irrational groupthink and pressurized by a joyously catty media. Interestingly, it was Ford President Robert McNamara who convinced the board to bail out of the Edsel project; a decade later, it was McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, who couldn't bring himself to quit the disaster of Vietnam, even though he knew a lemon when he saw one.
1958 Ford Edsel - The 50 Worst Cars of All Time - TIME
"That's why we're all here, right? To celebrate E Day, the date 50 years ago when Ford took one of the autodom's most hilarious pratfalls. But why? It really wasn't that bad a car. True, the car was kind of homely, fuel thirsty and too expensive, particularly at the outset of the late '50s recession. But what else? It was the first victim of Madison Avenue hyper-hype. Ford's marketing mavens had led the public to expect some plutonium-powered, pancake-making wondercar; what they got was a Mercury. Cultural critics speculated that the car was a flop because the vertical grill looked like a vagina. Maybe. America in the '50s was certainly phobic about the female business. How did the Edsel come to be synonymous with failure? All of the above, consolidated into an irrational groupthink and pressurized by a joyously catty media. Interestingly, it was Ford President Robert McNamara who convinced the board to bail out of the Edsel project; a decade later, it was McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, who couldn't bring himself to quit the disaster of Vietnam, even though he knew a lemon when he saw one.
1958 Ford Edsel - The 50 Worst Cars of All Time - TIME
03-21-2017, 07:57 AM
#50
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Posts: 1,808
paid the money. No help.
PBS is a company (management) administered pilot staffing and bidding system. It does both. We as pilots (as well as ALPA) have no input on staffing. Therefore, it doesn't matter how smart you are. You can't out-smart a math problem, where one variable is unknown, and the other variable is out of your control.
ALPA's input and control/supervision of Management's bidding/staffing system is just lipstick on a pig. It's very minimal and lacks oversight.
Once you strip all the bells and whistles and shine off of it, it's a Ford Etzel.
PBS is a company (management) administered pilot staffing and bidding system. It does both. We as pilots (as well as ALPA) have no input on staffing. Therefore, it doesn't matter how smart you are. You can't out-smart a math problem, where one variable is unknown, and the other variable is out of your control.
ALPA's input and control/supervision of Management's bidding/staffing system is just lipstick on a pig. It's very minimal and lacks oversight.
Once you strip all the bells and whistles and shine off of it, it's a Ford Etzel.
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