At TWA, we busted our butts to save a penny--in order to save the company. Now, at AA, everything the CAL pilot is doing to hurt the company--is in the manual!
You can run the APU from touchdown to takeoff, you can alter your cruise speed, you can configure as early as you want, you can wait to write up items till the last minute, call in sick late...etc.
It seems AA is set up to operate in the least effecient manner possible. But at least the Harvard MBA's know how to mistreat the employees. It is amazing that examples of good employee relations go unnoticed while they spend every waking moment trying to figure out how to screw the employees out of a penny.
"The floggings will continue until morale improves."TC