Originally Posted by gemac
I guess I never thought that having employees who would pitch in and do whatever needed to be done, and had a high work ethic, was such a severe disadvantage that it would doom a company "from the start". I thought that having employees who wouldn't do anything because "it's not my job" would be more likely to doom a company.
That was 100% opinion on my part (as my post reflected). Like others, I appreciate pilots and other employees who go beyond their duties to bring the best to the customer. However, I feel that pilots loading luggage shouldn't be a regular thing. Mesa's rampers are understaffed, the main reason why pilots end up loading and unloading luggage to begin with.
Many pilots have an incredibly high work ethic. They keep the planes in the air.
IMO, it's the work ethic of the ground staff that will make or break Mesa's operations
(*forgot to clarify that in previous post). Unfortunately, many of them see their positions as "just another job".