USA320Pilot said:
You continue to “grind your ax†since US Airways abandoned Pittsburgh, which is o.k., but I believe it’s a miserable way to live.
Nope. If you go back and check, I was lambasting CCY before that happened. That having been said, it's no skin from my teeth--I don't habitate in PIT anymore. Besides which, US will be run out of PIT in short order, although I would be suprised if that happens in totality before the liquidation. We'll see.
In regard to the operational meltdown, management did understand the company was running with short-staffing and made a mistake, but why should sick calls spike over Christmas anyway, year-after-year? Is it that sense of union entitlement you seem to support? I do not agree that there should be entitlement and the facts are the percentage of sick calls was higher last Christmas, even though the nubers were the same.
It does not matter
why it happens (in an operational sense, anyway). It happens. Very early on at business school, they teach you not to let things like that (short staffing) happen regardless of the reasoning.
If a person is sick then they should stay home. If they’re healthy and scheduled to work, regardless of the event, and they call in sick they're dishonest.
I agree with that, however, there are two things which the pro-CCY crowd always misses:
1. People who are about to be out of a job generally speaking don't care. Regardless of the moral stance, it is going to happen. Failure to plan for it indicates a simple lack of very basic business acumen.
2. It happens year-over-year. I'd imagine that any analyst could have taken a look at the numbers and discovered what was going to happen in about 15 minutes (even keeping in mind #1, although as it turns out the numbers were actually lower.
It is simply called integrity and character.
Coming from a member of a union who is willing to toss it's young under the bus to keep a seat, I'm going to leave that gem alone for the gentle reader to ponder.
By the way, what does it matter where your work?
Lakefield is not running a profitable enterprise. I work at one (that sells things to US, and is in the unique position of not taking a hit if US folds).
Finally, Bruce Lakefield is a man of integrity, but how would you know since you most likely do not know him.
The fact that he lambasted the IAM in front of another labor group (in light of the feds report that it was entirely on CCY's shoulders) indicates a lack of integrity. Indicating that he does not only have no regard for contracts but considers them a "sense of entitlement" indicates both a lack of integrity and a titanic failure of leadership 101.
And kissing booty while he's on the jumpseat does not equate to "knowing" somebody.
P.S. Have you ever thought of taking "venom reduction" medication?
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Quoting myself (from earlier in the thread):
I find it interesting that every time someone posts factual evidence that there is slant on just about everything you post (and represent as "fact" or a "paradigm") that you attack the poster in leiu of what he or she wrote.
If you would like, I can take a look at the posts in this thread and check them for the logical fallacies of debate.
Sure was fun the last time.
