Originally Posted by
Porterboy
Seriously! What planet are these guys living on. Who the heck is going to get this company out of this mess if upper/executive management disappears and goes on 3 weeks of leave. We are not that important... Face the fact that having a surplus of pilots is useless and a drag on the bottom line when you have to resort to cutting routes and parking planes to survive. This is especially true for the senior A scale guys who are getting paid insane amounts of money (in today’s world) on their expat packages and are likely the people posting all the entitled/absolutely whack garbage on this forum. A break and a healthy dose of reality might be good for you all! CX could easily just start laying off people (Not that you d***heads would give a damn since you’re probably sitting comfortably at the top end of seniority - in fact some of you sick f***s are wishing for layoffs), but they’re doing everything they can to not have to resort to that, which is a nice gesture for those at the lower end of seniority whose jobs are at risk. You folks are so freaking toxic.
LOL.....these are the same individuals who signed up for things like POS 18/19/20 knowingly undermining the continuously declining COSs ? And enabled the company to continue its plan of so doing ? And enabled the workforce to become divided against itself ? After just about everyone on the planet warned them about what they might be getting into. Now they're crying 'foul' ?
Who knew they were signing up in a seniority based business with layoff/recall procedures clearly defined in the COS ? (and which is industry standard pretty much everywhere). The same seniority system that 'trapped' people who might have otherwise bolted for greener pastures. Yup....the seniority system is a b!tch, it has its advantages and drawbacks, but the one thing it does do is clearly define the ground rules. And no one has been able to come up with something 'better' because the 'better' tends to become arbitrary and often causes more harm than it might solve.
Now, the company wants to circumvent its legitimate contractural responsibilities under this system which it set up for itself. Let it follow the contract. Lay people off as necessary (you'll find SOME of the COSs having some fairly decent layoff provisions--ones the company is specifically attempting not to have to pay). The rules for situations like this have been thoroughly delineated within the contract. The only 'toxic' or 'bad' behavior would be in enabling the company to continue what it's done over the years; this is an opportunity to force it to do the right thing.