Howdy Dog Wonder, I sure riled you up by evidence of a post being longer than a few words!
Your "old" has little bearing on today, because for better or worse, we are a new company, but the pre-merger East mentalities presist. The "old old" mentalities which you speak, promulgates from a pre-9/11 environment REALLY is living in the past and out-of-touch with current realties... you might want to take some of your own advice, especially when you are unable to quantitate "nonstop stream" of freight and mail as an embellishment of a time long ago.
As for CPH claims, even I called BS on it, but he assured me that as he did the load plan, he knows how the plane was loaded. Which reminds me of a little economic lesson in how real increases in wages can only exist in an aggregate of increased productivity, ergo that means greater output per employee either through increased effort or replacing employees with capital equipment or subcontractors (notice how that worked with recent pay increases). For the "Luggage Luddites," this may be an unacceptable trade-off, but for the highest of seniority people approaching retirement.
All so worried about 'cutting corners' to the point that it is slow motion. I had the opportunity to meet some of the absent IAM east posters to this board over a year ago, and frankly, they were soft and on the smallish side. I looked at the West side with burly, tall guys, and I thought the visitors were from a local junior high on career day. I guess there is a reason as to why SWA keeps hiring, because how many people are built around 6-foot tall, around 240 pounds willing to work in a tight space in a hot environment, and be able to pass a drug test and criminal background check? When it comes time to stretch for those bags near the bulk head and then turn around an toss and stack 150 bags in the aft bin of a B737 in 15 minutes, I guess the guys around 5'7" and 160 pounds won't last long... or they apply to work at US Airways.
So Contrasts Jester.
