As many of you know, I am a helicopter pilot of an indeterminent color who works for a nationwide air ambulance service. To make a long story short, the hospital I worked for sold the helicpter program and I took a 20% pay cut for the past year. However, this new company is unionized and in precisely 1 hour and 19 minutes we will know if the proposed contract that the negotiating teams came to terms on will be ratified by the pilot body.
The bottom line is that if it fails to get approved I will continue to make substantially less than I used to and likely will eventually have to strike thus earning even less money for the household budget. If it get approved I will be the happy recipient of an area cost of living adjustment that places me well inside six figures-- a salary which as a helicopter pilot is an unimaginable sum, especially when you recognise that in terms of pride in our jobs we are barely a step up from being a piano player in a house of ill repute.
The sticking point is that the base salary increase is modest, to say the least. For the average pilot who lives in BFE, Iowa, the salary increase may not be enough for them to vote for the new contract, but me it's all about the area cost of living which bumps my salary up by 160%.
/chews on his fingernails
I hope it passes. 56 minutes left to wait...
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You go, Norma Rae!
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Here's tossing you a prayer and some good luck, man.
I find it hard wish 'best of luck' to our resident Uncle Tom low key racist. So all I can say is that Allah willing you will get what is coming to you.
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Piloting a helicopter isn't easy, and doing it to save lives is even better.
<-- failed airplane pilot *frown*
Good luck with the raise, the cost of living in some areas (the places with big enough hospitals to want helipads) is stupid high.
<-- failed airplane pilot *frown*
Good luck with the raise, the cost of living in some areas (the places with big enough hospitals to want helipads) is stupid high.
Kinda neat when your conservative anti-union ideals run head-on into reality, isn't it?
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Wow! Just think of all those Jackson 5 CD's, Pimped-up Ford Torinos and Co'n Bread dinnuhs y'awl could buy wit' dat dough!
GL Toutem (Listen to "The Shouting End of Life" offa that CD I sent you. It helps me in times like these)
GL Toutem (Listen to "The Shouting End of Life" offa that CD I sent you. It helps me in times like these)
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
Yay! It passed!
/em goes off singing, "I'm in the money..."
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/em goes off singing, "I'm in the money..."
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GRATZ
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
Sweet! More Milk Bones for the poodles.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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Yay! It passed!
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Totem wrote:
Yay! It passed!
/em goes off singing, "I'm in the money..."
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/em goes off singing, "I'm in the money..."
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Congrats!!!
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Ok, let me state unequivocally that unions have their place in society. And yes, while I am generally of the mindset that unions are creatures which are often guilty of the same excesses that companies are accused of, in this case the union is a very good thing.
I am a happy man today, so I suppose I will go out and purchase a brand new Cadillac with dubs. Shaquilla will be very pleased!
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I am a happy man today, so I suppose I will go out and purchase a brand new Cadillac with dubs. Shaquilla will be very pleased!
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Grats on finally getting your piece of the pie.
Totem wrote:
Yay! It passed!
/em goes off singing, "I'm in the money..."
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/em goes off singing, "I'm in the money..."
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Congrats on the contract! Does that mean you're giving us all helecopter rides now?
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Kaolian wrote:
Congrats on the contract! Does that mean you're giving us all helecopter rides now?
As much as I tried, I couldn't find an appropriate entry for a "helecopter ride."
This will have to do
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