Originally Posted by LTRS
Did management EARN the options they are cashing in? Is that really your question? Because the answer seems pretty darn obvious -- NO! How do you deserve bonuses like that when the company you are managing is consistently losing millions?
Have mechanics not EARNED their pensions, which the airline is trying to take away, all the while locking in those of management before it does away with them for workers? Yes, certainly they have. NWA planes aren't crashing down from the skies, are they? Then I would say they did their jobs competently, UNLIKE management.
LTRS--as usual you make many good points. You seem to be one of the few on flyertalk who really get it. I guess the hostility to working people is not surprising. Most high level frequent flyers are naturally prone to side with management rather than the people who do the work. If you search some of the past posts on these boards, some of the same people who lambast the mechanics for refusing to cut their salary 25% and give up half their jobs will whine endlessly when they don't get some upgrade or are dont get some minor perk they feel entitled to because of their "status." Yet they have no sympathy for people who earn a fraction of what they do getting pushed around by management. It's all part of the "me first" mentality.