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cavalier Posted on: Sep 18 2004, 08:11 PM
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I don't have to remember it, I live it pal....

U was a good paying job, U was a good place to work, was the place to be, now that times have changed and the house of cards came a tumbling down, no amount of brotherhood, sisterhood, union this union that is going to matter. If you can go out and do better than you are a fool for sticking around and waiting for the waters to reach your head when you don't have a snorkel. That $25 plus dollar an hour job you think is around the corner is a mirage, nothing but you imagination unless you make it happen by doing exactly what I always stated.

PS: I am gone NEVER to return---Que Sera, Sera
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cavalier Posted on: Sep 16 2004, 11:26 AM
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I still feel in my bones U is finished and why I moved on, if I really didn't feel that way I too would be holding on and praying, but I think even prayers are fruitless at this point. U has no leadership, no vision, nothing remotely in it’s favor and sadly the only true believes are the employees who feel that hope is all they have. The world will still turn but it will spin minus this once great company, it’s time has come and gone.


One small example: I was at a travel agency this morning and asked about how they are handling the U situation. They told me they are booking totally away from U afraid of screwing their customers with U’s dire situation, one small example and one of enough to bury U for good.
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cavalier Posted on: Sep 6 2004, 02:11 PM
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youngblood:

I can only speak to the mechanics which is where I was.
In that area we had cleaners and store people whose responsibilities include cleaning and delivering parts and for those chores they make what skilled labor makes non union, this I know as I live it! This cannot and will not stand, watch and see, sorry 700 no betrayal, just the sorry truth.

Mechanics on the outside, also very skilled, don't make $29 an hour either, look no further than the new airline where a mechanics makes more like $13 an hour! Crap wages!!

I was just making a point and realize it's a very sore spot for most to swallow, but it’s fact that big paying jobs are not that easy to come by with most being way less, FACT.

The customer service people I have no clue but from what you tell me that you make, I simply would go elsewhere rather that put up with screaming customers all day.

My point: At the mechanic level outside the airline industry mechanics simply don’t command the kind of money they get paid in the airlines, which the unions won for them. Some will come on here and tell me I am full of it and to that I say yes you can make more if you move to some big city where it costs more to live so there is no real gain.

I am not advocating accepting anything. My belief, I live it. I really feel this is a lost cause and I chose to move on, convinced the unions will get smashed and when it’s all said and done working in or out of the airline industry will no longer make a difference! I left and also left behind all the heartache and stress I read on these boards. Do I make less? Yes, a little, but the difference in mental health makes up the difference 100 fold! I simply didn’t need to go thru any more grief of hearing daily how bad things are and how much worse they are going to become. Good luck to the ones actually believing $30 an hour jobs are plentiful, hell, pilots work for less these days! Lost cause IMO and I’m just too old to fight anymore and decided enough was enough and let the ones with more spirit fight the war. Good Luck, you’ll surely need it.
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cavalier Posted on: Sep 5 2004, 04:06 PM
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I am afraid you are reading me wrong my friend as I am no longer an U employee. There is nothing to hate or reason to be filled with malice and in fact: It feels like a big weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I sleep better because I am now on a sane shift instead of night shift suffering from heart palpitations and acid indigestion and going thru the days feeling drugged from lack of sleep.

Doom and gloom are part of life at U and if you can shine some bright spots on this mess then by all mean be my guest. All I was doing was relaying articles which I didn't write but did read. I learned a few things like how the passengers families were treated, something like the way U employees are currently being treated, terrible.

Unfortunately anything associated with U is now not just perceived as doom and gloom, but is in fact doom and gloom, therefore keeping it light minus the doom and gloom would require that we all transfer over to the LUV boards where there is some sunshine instead of the mushroom factory that dwells over U.

Good Luck to You and All U Employees! Some of the best people I ever met are at U!

I am done repsonding to you, I proved my point, have a nice day.

 

[cavalier]

I am done repsonding to you, I proved my point, have a nice day.

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Feeling s is mutual jack a-s-s

If you didn't have the union no one else would have you, it goes all the way back to the yahoo boards "BOOFman" and now a union rep, shows why the unions are where they are, in the s-h-i-t-er.

 

[700UW]

Main Entry: credibility gap
Function: noun
Date: 1966
1 a : lack of trust <a credibility gap between generations> b : lack of believability <a credibility gap created by contradictory official statements —Samuel Ellenport>
2 : DISCREPANCY <the credibility gap between the professed ideals… and their actual practices —Jeanne L. Noble>

 

[jetmech01890]

hey cav just remember this board is 700 uw whole life he is obsessed with it no one can post anything on it without a snappy reply from him , As I remeber there are things called lay offs OR maybe when the company was offering voluntary
furlough I myself and alot of other mechanics took advantage of this I am sure you rember this 700 uw, It saved a lot of jr guys at my station when WE DID THIS
FOR OUR UNION BROTHERS huh 700 uw so mr self centered self important HOW HAVE YOU HELPED A JR GUY OR ANY OTHER OF OUR UNION BROTHERS , so cav I say we all use the ingore feature on 700 uw so the boofman and the name lavman he used can go back to yahoo boards, he is still mad becuse he was BUMPED out of stores and has to actually do work he still misses his nightly naps
and is having withdrawls not being able to use the hub and play beach head on the company equipment


oh by the please discet this use this post against me and correct my spelling

 

[Atlantic]

700 and related are about to meet jesus, and there ain't no safty net.

 

[scot]

Since you guys insist on keeping it public, this warning will also be there for all to see.

Knock it off. I dont care who did what or who said what. This is the one time warning for today or you'll have a nice weekend off the boards and everyone will have a quiet weekend here.


And I dont want a PM from either of you apologizing again saying it wont happen again. Just knock it off and I'll be happy.

Scot

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