I wonder what day the "FLU BUG " will hit this week ?Wednesday,Sundayor maybe Tuesday.If you are flying this week,be ready for Chaos due to short staffing and an abundance of sick calls.Maybe Glass and Lakefield can chip in and throw some bags this week.After all of the negativity thrown at the IAM,CWA and AFA, it is time to reciprocate.YOu treat your employees the way you expect them to treat the passengers.Management by example,not with this crew of clownns in CCY!
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the spokesman says that they are "well aware of the problems and are working on it" just what are they really working on anyways? i personally they are working on "how can we screw the employees again this time!!!"""
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hack73 said:
Those guys will all be enjoying a 4 day week end. Don't think they'll be too interested in the operation. :down:
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Please get it over with, stop talking about it, talk is cheap. I used to feel sorry for you, but with all this venom, you seem to think that the world owes you something. Just move on with your lives. I do much better now that I do not work for an airline. Let US just go out of business or do what it will take to save it. Do not make the mistake of dragging the travelling public into your battle with management, they do not care. :down: :down: :down: :down: :down:
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markkus757 said:
And I suggest you take your own advice...Just move on, pal. This forum is of no concern to you.
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It is a concern of mine, I just don't work for an airline. I'm still in the business and yes, US does involve my career.
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I just love this mentality of how a sick out will show management. Let's just look at who is really effected by a "sick out".
1. Customers - inconvenienced tremendously by an employee action. Will vote with their dollars the next time they travel and the spiral of low fares and employee concessions will continue.
2. Customer Service Agents - System wide will have to deal with irrate Customers who are delayed and/or will misconnect to their destination. With the current staffing levels and the industry load factor projected for the weekend, seats will be nearly impossible to find and lines will grow and Customers will become more upset.
3. Reservations Agents - Who will have to handle the large volume of calls from disgruntled Customers that are directed to the phones due to the inabilityof the Customer Service Agents to handle the volume of Customers unable to make it to their destination for the holiday.
4. Ramp Agents - your fellow ramp agents that appreciate their job and want to do the right thing. They will have to pick up the slack for the people that felt they were making a statement by calling off sick.
5. Crews - that are locked in a big silver tube, filled with Customers that are becoming disgusted with the events taking place. As tempers flare, the abuse on Crew members increases. All the time these crews are sitting on planes, attending to Customers, trying to apologize and all the while they are not getting paid for this time, because the ACARs clock hasn't set an out time yet.
6. Baggage Service Agents - As the number of misconnected bags increase, the stress on Station Baggage Agents and System Baggage Service increases as the number of PAWOBs jump higher and higher. Hold time for calls to System Baggage Service increases and Customer become even more enraged.
7. Consumer Affairs Agents - As the holiday rush comes to an end and we have driven every Customer we have to book with the competition, Consumer Affairs will have to apologize to the thousands of Customers that call in with complaints. Working jammed phone lines, e-mail and letters, we will give away millions of dollars in vouchers to apologize for your "statement to management", thus diluting revenue even more and pushing the company that much closer to Chapter 7.
So you see......in the end......who pays the ultimate price for your "statement to management"? The Customer and your fellow employees. Does Bruce or any of the VP's have to work any harder that day? No. But every other front line employee will have to shoulder the added stress and aggrivation of your actions.
If your ultimate goal is to become unemployed, then save your fellow employees and the Customers the hassle and just quit now. The end result is the same, but you don't have to ruin everyone's holiday in the process.
To those that come to work everyday, give it their all, Thank you for making a difference. For those that feel they are in some way, shape or form making a statement to Mangement - Here is the door. thank you for your time and best of luck in your future endeavors.
1. Customers - inconvenienced tremendously by an employee action. Will vote with their dollars the next time they travel and the spiral of low fares and employee concessions will continue.
2. Customer Service Agents - System wide will have to deal with irrate Customers who are delayed and/or will misconnect to their destination. With the current staffing levels and the industry load factor projected for the weekend, seats will be nearly impossible to find and lines will grow and Customers will become more upset.
3. Reservations Agents - Who will have to handle the large volume of calls from disgruntled Customers that are directed to the phones due to the inabilityof the Customer Service Agents to handle the volume of Customers unable to make it to their destination for the holiday.
4. Ramp Agents - your fellow ramp agents that appreciate their job and want to do the right thing. They will have to pick up the slack for the people that felt they were making a statement by calling off sick.
5. Crews - that are locked in a big silver tube, filled with Customers that are becoming disgusted with the events taking place. As tempers flare, the abuse on Crew members increases. All the time these crews are sitting on planes, attending to Customers, trying to apologize and all the while they are not getting paid for this time, because the ACARs clock hasn't set an out time yet.
6. Baggage Service Agents - As the number of misconnected bags increase, the stress on Station Baggage Agents and System Baggage Service increases as the number of PAWOBs jump higher and higher. Hold time for calls to System Baggage Service increases and Customer become even more enraged.
7. Consumer Affairs Agents - As the holiday rush comes to an end and we have driven every Customer we have to book with the competition, Consumer Affairs will have to apologize to the thousands of Customers that call in with complaints. Working jammed phone lines, e-mail and letters, we will give away millions of dollars in vouchers to apologize for your "statement to management", thus diluting revenue even more and pushing the company that much closer to Chapter 7.
So you see......in the end......who pays the ultimate price for your "statement to management"? The Customer and your fellow employees. Does Bruce or any of the VP's have to work any harder that day? No. But every other front line employee will have to shoulder the added stress and aggrivation of your actions.
If your ultimate goal is to become unemployed, then save your fellow employees and the Customers the hassle and just quit now. The end result is the same, but you don't have to ruin everyone's holiday in the process.
To those that come to work everyday, give it their all, Thank you for making a difference. For those that feel they are in some way, shape or form making a statement to Mangement - Here is the door. thank you for your time and best of luck in your future endeavors.
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MMW,
What? YOu have the ability to fire folks?
Give us a freggin break!
What's your pay cut? Care to elaborate.
My 30th bi weekly pay check will be a whopping NET of $546. AND I'M A TOPPED OUT F/A of 24 years. 105 option domestic. I bet the reserves (some of them) won't receive anything on the 30th. Maybe $100 bucks. YUp, I think its worth the effort for them to make an effort to make themselves available...what do you think?
This now is a total of 31% cut including last year's pay cut too.
Wow, bet folks are really thrilled this holiday that they won't even be able to purchase the food they use to.
But what the heck...its all about management. As long as they are intact, the rest is moot.
Have a happy thanksgiving Charlie Brown. B)
What? YOu have the ability to fire folks?
Give us a freggin break!
What's your pay cut? Care to elaborate.
My 30th bi weekly pay check will be a whopping NET of $546. AND I'M A TOPPED OUT F/A of 24 years. 105 option domestic. I bet the reserves (some of them) won't receive anything on the 30th. Maybe $100 bucks. YUp, I think its worth the effort for them to make an effort to make themselves available...what do you think?
This now is a total of 31% cut including last year's pay cut too.
Wow, bet folks are really thrilled this holiday that they won't even be able to purchase the food they use to.
But what the heck...its all about management. As long as they are intact, the rest is moot.
Have a happy thanksgiving Charlie Brown. B)
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markkus757 said:
Then I suggest you go fly a kite.
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My point was to show the people that think they are "showing management" that they effect much more then that. Perhaps, if you flew a trip once in a while, you would know the level of frustration your fellow F/A's feel when they are stuck on the gate in PHL, with a full airplane, waiting for 2 hours for someone to unload/load the airplane.
So, you are saying that an non-union sanctioned "sick out" is appropriate? You are saying that a "sick out" will help to put food on an employees table if the whole airline shuts down?
For the 97 millionth time, I am not management and I do not support the managements quest to steal every dime they can from the employees. But I also know better then to bite the hand that feeds me so hard that I never get fed again.
Re-read the post and tell me specifically what you don't agree with? Aren't the Customers, Agents and Crew Members the ones effected most by a "sick out"?
So, you are saying that an non-union sanctioned "sick out" is appropriate? You are saying that a "sick out" will help to put food on an employees table if the whole airline shuts down?
For the 97 millionth time, I am not management and I do not support the managements quest to steal every dime they can from the employees. But I also know better then to bite the hand that feeds me so hard that I never get fed again.
Re-read the post and tell me specifically what you don't agree with? Aren't the Customers, Agents and Crew Members the ones effected most by a "sick out"?
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Hey Smack,
Reread the post...where did I say I support any kind of sick out or any job action.. where?
When is the last time you flew with the crews?
I hear from them more in 1 day then you hear from them in a year.
Don't start sitting here implying you are soooo intuned to what the employes feel and think.
You will lose major credibility here. :down:
My advice...managment should make themselves available for these holidays to work with the rank since they didn't make a pay sacrifice that anyone noticed. I personally think it would be a noble jester to the employees and the pax to see CCY working this holiday in the bases helping out.
That is a better incentive than 2 sapce pos. upgrades crap.
Reread the post...where did I say I support any kind of sick out or any job action.. where?
When is the last time you flew with the crews?
I hear from them more in 1 day then you hear from them in a year.
Don't start sitting here implying you are soooo intuned to what the employes feel and think.
You will lose major credibility here. :down:
My advice...managment should make themselves available for these holidays to work with the rank since they didn't make a pay sacrifice that anyone noticed. I personally think it would be a noble jester to the employees and the pax to see CCY working this holiday in the bases helping out.
That is a better incentive than 2 sapce pos. upgrades crap.
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