Amused and Mole; Here is a legitimate question... but first is the deal you, all other officers and I agreed and understood at the beginning of our tenure that our tenure was to end at age 55 and it was understood and accepted by each of us and all of our peers on the job. So what is causing the push from the people who are now at the retirment age or within its sights pushing for extensions or to have the age raised? Since the company has already given you several knee jerks in the last few years to make you see that you are not getting what you were told you would to begin with, so why are you even interested in extending the abuse to yourself in the means of subjection to further loss of your beliefes and your personal moral? It appears that most of the senior officers choose to stand apart and fight for their own personal gains and their need to feel needed in a rapidly changing environment. Would it not be a better position to leave with knowing you used the time you agreed to and let your last years be in a battle to make life better for those who follow you? There is so much division and derision here between the young and the old on the flight deck. The aspect of being the leaders seems to have fallen away from the senior captains and the younger officers are trying to rally together for unity to bring in a bit more of the traditions that you entered the company with, and the main focus is that the company should be accountable and responsible to its employees and the contracts which are accepted by the employees with beliefes and faith that the company will adhere to their side of the contract. Each time they gain a level of confidence that the employees are willing to give an inch this time; next time they will give a mile. If you have to go..go out in a flame of glory not a whimpering coddger that settled for less than you are truly worth. When you sell yourselves short and are willing to work for less and bend over for the weinner you devalue every other person within the ranks doing the same job from the F/O you just flew with to the person just walking in the door. Why not work to make sure that everyone has the value you were originally (had) promised as opposed to reducing the value of the job you have done for 20+ years and have done it well?
[This message has been edited by AtRisk (edited 18 September 2000).]