Lighten up Francies!
Half the employees here are gay (I am sure that is what you were insinuating). And US has recieved praise and awards form gay grousp, women groups and other rminority groups for their hiring pracitces.
You have a very unhealthy beef with US Airways, you probabaly should look in the mirror.
Yes, for all the gay, Jewish, Muslim, Women, black and you-name-it groups that they have, please know that it is all just for show, and to fulfill some phantom criteria of the government. It's all a facade, just like US Airways publishing a Code of Conduct guide to which only selective people are ultimately held up to, at the whim of the same management team that is allowed to blatantly break the same rules. Never, ever mention the word 'corruption' and 'double-standard' that comes with everything that the current US management does.
To be specific, you should just speak to a few Union reps regarding US Airways systematic targeting of HIV positive people or people with other afflictions that may happen from time to time. US Airways (America West) actively pursues getting rid of anyone that costs them money. HIV positive people (considering your own statistic that half the workforce is gay) cost the company a lot of money.
I remember my dear friend Nick Aaronson, when he got stuck once in LAS because of a serious sinus infection where he was just grounded by a doctor and not allowed to fly a plane for approximately 20 days. He cost the company 20 days of hotel overnights in LAS. I advised him shortly after that "up until now you were a stellar employee, but you have now cost the company money, watch your back." Surely enough, a couple of months later the harassment started and he was placed on the first couple of levels.
Shortly after that he was laid off due to the furloughs that were needed at the time and he went then to Qatar. He returned to US a few years later, but he hated US just like most of us.
It was truly ironic to see US Airways management go on the public spectacle of support and sympathy, when they were the first ones trying to make his life miserable. I'm not making this up, I lived with Nick at one point, and knew him very well.
There were many friends that I know that were HIV positive and had (perhaps if you will) complications and had no choice but to make use of intermittent FMLA. If you had a disability and did go on Intermittent, you were definitely a target for discrimination.
I can support my statement by the mere additional fact that America West allowed the back and forth transfer, several times of inflight supervisors, between the (OHHH SO PRIVATE) FMLA processing department and Inflight department which to me is completely corrupt - this activity.
You had specific management staff (example: Nola Nikolaus), that went from inflight supervisor to the FMLA department, back to inflight and then back to FMLA. The same people that knew you in inflight, that worked so hard on getting you on a disciplinary level, also worked with your supposed private medical condition. If you don't seriously think that something is wrong with that, then what is?
