Originally Posted by
Ohfeck
Exactly that. The first step to fixing a problem is acknowledging the problem exists. Reactions like the one from DuctOvht allow the problem to get worse not better.
I personally do know a woman from VAA who received what she could describe due to legal restrictions as a “a substantial confidential settlement.” Companies don’t pay that if there has been no wrongdoing.
And she’s not the only one? Only recently the company settled out of court a claim made by several pilots. Maybe if VAA behaved and didn’t have to keep paying millions in legal costs at regular intervals they might actually make a sustainable profit?
Believing in due process, justice and accountability is wrong? Pull the other one. I’m responding to what you wrote by the way, not what you might have tangentially inferred.
It’s 2025, there’s not a single right thinking person out there that doesn’t believe a problem can, and does, exist in some quarters and there are also too many men out there who don’t seem to have a grasp of how to treat others. Additionally, if Virgin has an institutional issue here then it is valid they’re called out on it. However, that doesn’t mean that an accusation from one person to another automatically confers guilt I’m afraid, no matter how much you might want it to. Our whole legal system is predicated on the notion that someone is innocent until
proven guilty, although that centuries old precedent is under threat like never before. I have no skin in this particular game, but that sort of nonsense thinking (that someone, anyone, making an accusation of any sort be just ‘believed’) can’t go unchallenged.
Anyway, this is
wildly off thread so I’ll leave it at that.