Well today I try to commute to work, but of course the flight is really full and there is only ONE seat left....
But did I get it? Hell NO! It went to a more senior guy who also gets more pay!! He has worked for the airline only one year longer than me!!
So I got to drive an extra hour to another airport.. You see, the airlines are making it impossible for me to do my job. After relocating to my base, the airline decided to close my base, and now my base is 400 miles from my house. So, then comes commuting. But now commuting becomes increasingly difficult because now they CUT THE FLIGHTS, from 9 or 10, down to around 4. Four flights for hundreds of other employees also trying to commute to the same place we call our base.
So you say, why not just move to the new base? Well they have made that impossible as well because they cut my f-ing pay. And I now have a house here that I cannot sell. I guess I could just sleep in the airport at my base. We have a great dump in the bowels downstairs. You will never see it from above in your newly remodeled ticketing area, but down below is our roach motel like lounge filled with stanky old recliners that we get to "relax" in, if we should happen to have the chance to rest. We could just live there....
Management wouldn't care. Or maybe you say we could use some of our retirement money to relocate? Nope. The airline has forced us to invest that in a crappy stock market and we can't touch it. A crappy stock market where you have to RISK your retirement money because they took away our pension.
So where does that leave us? Screwed, helpless, and a little bit angry. And our shitty union that is supposed to protect us is a joke. But they don't care either, because their lowest paid person still makes more than most of us. And we get to pay them for it. And then we get to show up for work and you get to trust us with your lives.
Just another day for the Angry Pilot!
But did I get it? Hell NO! It went to a more senior guy who also gets more pay!! He has worked for the airline only one year longer than me!!
So I got to drive an extra hour to another airport.. You see, the airlines are making it impossible for me to do my job. After relocating to my base, the airline decided to close my base, and now my base is 400 miles from my house. So, then comes commuting. But now commuting becomes increasingly difficult because now they CUT THE FLIGHTS, from 9 or 10, down to around 4. Four flights for hundreds of other employees also trying to commute to the same place we call our base.
So you say, why not just move to the new base? Well they have made that impossible as well because they cut my f-ing pay. And I now have a house here that I cannot sell. I guess I could just sleep in the airport at my base. We have a great dump in the bowels downstairs. You will never see it from above in your newly remodeled ticketing area, but down below is our roach motel like lounge filled with stanky old recliners that we get to "relax" in, if we should happen to have the chance to rest. We could just live there....
Management wouldn't care. Or maybe you say we could use some of our retirement money to relocate? Nope. The airline has forced us to invest that in a crappy stock market and we can't touch it. A crappy stock market where you have to RISK your retirement money because they took away our pension.
So where does that leave us? Screwed, helpless, and a little bit angry. And our shitty union that is supposed to protect us is a joke. But they don't care either, because their lowest paid person still makes more than most of us. And we get to pay them for it. And then we get to show up for work and you get to trust us with your lives.
Just another day for the Angry Pilot!
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