The dark side of the pilot shortage.

JDean3204 said:
Has anyone ever wondered what if we got a minimum wage per duty hour? This has been getting to me lately as I fly a ton of 20-30 minute legs but have 5 or 6 a day. It turns into a 10 or 11 hour day and with weather sometimes more until we time out. Plane swaps and pre flights, paperwork review and all thing necessary to conducting a safe 121 flight and only the time the door is closed and the motors are running do we get paid. I know, it's been like this since the wright bros etc... It could be as simple as subtracting your credit time from your duty time and getting paid min wage for the difference. This is what I think about on my 30hr Wenatchee layovers... lol
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There is a legal cut out due to a airline specific law. This came up in the Seaport bankruptcy. One of the lawyers was trying to claim none of us got minimum wage. It was quickly shot down when the airline law was pointed out. Sux but it is what it is.
 
flyinggreasemnky said:
What's interesting is that there have been several studies on the psychological effect of growing up in poverty has on an individual. I'm currently making six figures and hesitate to buy stuff that costs under $20. Whereas my wife didn't think twice about the $500 HOV ticket she just got.
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Thats because she the "wife" and it's your "money". ;)
 
Apophis said:
Lol man, they’ve been peddling the whole pay raise thing for the 3 years I’ve been here. The most it has ever been was 6,000 my first year. Since then the pay raises have been a joke. I’ll believe it when I see it. The yearly pay raises are a joke as well. They better be serious about pay or (my company at least) is going to have a crisis on its hands.
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Yeah, I know. We will have the same crisis on our end if it doesn't come through. I think 1/2 our pilot group will walk. There's been some discussion over on freightpilots.com about it. But we have been getting regular updates from our management about it. That hasn't happened in the past so.....

My money is they are waiting on all the cockpit cameras to get installed and will offer the raise to offset the stench of the cockpit cameras.
 
Cptnchia said:
If I win a lottery, maybe. My bills are paid, the kids have food and clothes, my wife can go do her thing, I don’t drink cheap beer or bourbon, I go on vacation when I want, just dropped $2,200 to rebuild a transmission, didn’t have to think about where the $$ were coming from. I spend 10-12 nights away from home, working 14-16 days a month. I’m content.
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Aroo? :eek2: What car and what happened?
 
av8tr1 said:
Yeah, I know. We will have the same crisis on our end if it doesn't come through. I think 1/2 our pilot group will walk. There's been some discussion over on freightpilots.com about it. But we have been getting regular updates from our management about it. That hasn't happened in the past so.....

My money is they are waiting on all the cockpit cameras to get installed and will offer the raise to offset the stench of the cockpit cameras.
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My guess is most of those cameras will find a way to be.....well, inoperative in one way or another. But I didn’t say that.

This whole pay raise thing reminds me of a story some of our older guys have told me, which occurred long before I joined MAC. Apparently FedEx allocated bonus money over Christmas peak a number of years back for their feeders. Very little of that money actually made it into the employees’ paychecks (at my feeder, that is). The CEO at that time decided to reward himself with a Ferrari. Do the math, but we all know where the money for it came from.

So we will see. Just because FedEx allocates money for salary increases, doesn’t mean we will see all (or even most) of it. I don’t trust management at all.
 
Apophis said:
My guess is most of those cameras will find a way to be.....well, inoperative in one way or another. But I didn’t say that.

This whole pay raise thing reminds me of a story some of our older guys have told me, which occurred long before I joined MAC. Apparently FedEx allocated bonus money over Christmas peak a number of years back for their feeders. Very little of that money actually made it into the employees’ paychecks (at my feeder, that is). The CEO at that time decided to reward himself with a Ferrari. Do the math, but we all know where the money for it came from.

So we will see. Just because FedEx allocates money for salary increases, doesn’t mean we will see all (or even most) of it. I don’t trust management at all.
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Dude, if that was true I would quit at an outstation and make them fly the plane back. I bet they would have trouble finding a pilot.
 
Cptnchia said:
I don’t know about that. The 350K I made this year flying airplanes provides a money happiness on top of the job happiness. Come Feb 14th, the bonus happiness will be large too.
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Damn and I thought I was killing it in sales! Nicely done.
 
Cptnchia said:
1999 F250 with the 7.3 powerstroke. Ehh, it was a ranch truck with 158K mikes on it and the tranny was never serviced. Ranch hands are hard on equipment that they don’t own.
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My dad recently bought a new truck, 2015 Dodge Ram 3500. I asked him why Dodge, since he's never like them and he said that it was the only diesel available with a manual transmission :P
 
Cptnchia said:
I don’t see a problem. Kinda hard to pull a flat bed trailer with 500 bales on it with a Tesla. Or, are you a Chevy/Dodge humper?
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See edited lol

I also have an ‘08 250 Superduty. It’s an ok truck, but I’ll take my Denali HD all day every day.
 
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pete2800 said:
Pics of fancy car or this post is worthless.

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Old man car. :) Audi A8.

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