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I'm really sick and tired of the spineless hinting and beating around the bush about closing MCI -- JUST DO IT AND GET IT OVER WITH. You want to, some of our "brothers" want you to, so do it, Do It, DO IT. Want help turning off the lights? I'll volunteer.
We used to have a pretty good engine facility here. AA came in and gutted it, mostly without giving a thought as to any future value of the building or it's equipment. Now it's a warehouse for crap that AA doesn't even want and they have to clean it out before they can hand it back to the city -- smart move. 🙄
They've done the same to most of the support shops, they either sit vacant or gutted to create "cubicle city" for administrative types -- many whose jobs are just as shaky as the mechanics.
They want us to do maintenance/modifications, yet time and time again we have to wait for parts (that should have been here all along) to trickle in from somewhere else.
Got an MD-80 with a big OOPS from a tug incident out on the line? No problem, just patch it up and ferry it to MCI -- although the support and tooling went south years ago. Just cram it in an aisleway of an already used bay, although we have nearly TEN UNUSED BAYS in the old part of the building we could have used. (By the way, where did they put the 767 winglet prototype to reinstall the winglets? The old part of the building.) We'll fix it up, good as new -- and then you can lay us off. Need a 757 MAUI prototyped? Just con MCI into spending a butt-load of cash to fix up a room to rework the E&E racks in, show them a "dock plan" with lots of work coming in, and once the bugs are worked out you can send it to Tulsa! Then you can pass out the pink slips while we "celebrate" our "accomplishments." We constantly hear about how we have to do more with fewer heads, I say let's see the other bases do what we're tasked to do with the number of people we have.
AA has shown time and time again they really don't want MCI, we're just good for the "dirty work" the other bases don't want. Our (currently) cheap (and somewhat compliant) workforce will take whatever scraps our "brothers" will allow us to have and act like it's manna from heaven.
I, for one, would like to see AA show some testicular fortitude and just tell us when the party's over. Give me the date you'll pay me to leave (severance) and I'll run laughing all the way out the front gate and to the bank. Stop insulting people's intelligence with this "dock plan" ( :censored: male bovine fecal matter) and spit out something that resembles the truth. I made plans some time back for a life after this AA fiasco and I plan on putting them in motion this year one way or another. For those mindless sheep that continue to think things are coming up roses while they proudly wear their TWU garbage around I have no sympathy. For those who see the writing on the wall like I do, I hope you have made plans 'cause it's only a matter of time.
So go ahead and close MCI. You want to do it, so just do it. Then we'll see who the next domino (in line to fall) will be, and who some people will have to blame for AA's continuing downward spiral once we're gone.
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