US airways asks employees to work for free over new years holiday

[green lantern]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6763789/


PHILADELPHIA - US Airways appealed Tuesday to employees to work for free at Philadelphia's airport over the New Year's weekend to avoid a repeat of a Christmas fiasco that left the airline with too few workers to fly its planes and process baggage...........





YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!! :eek: :eek:

[eugene40]

I would tell them to Go screw themselves.... that is a bunch of crap.... I have never unless I was volunteering for a good cause,,, worked for free.... And of course I am sure that they executives of US Airways are not going to get paid for those days either.... what horse crap.... I would have the exects bring their pompass arses down to philly and do the work.... I hate the airline industry..

[green lantern]

I would tell them to Go screw themselves.... that is a bunch of crap.... I have never unless I was volunteering for a good cause,,, worked for free.... And of course I am sure that they executives of US Airways are not going to get paid for those days either.... what horse crap.... I would have the exects bring their pompass arses down to philly and do the work.... I hate the airline industry.."screw" is the mild term i would use with them. i agree with you, get all the suits down from the offices and put their sorry arses to work.

[eugene40]

"screw" is the mild term i would use with them. i agree with you, get all the suits down from the offices and put their sorry arses to work.


Well this is a G rated forum.... So I was keeping it mild......

[green lantern]

Well this is a G rated forum.... So I was keeping it mild......and it is appreciated
:D ;)

[The_Penguin]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6763789/


PHILADELPHIA - US Airways appealed Tuesday to employees to work for free at Philadelphia's airport over the New Year's weekend to avoid a repeat of a Christmas fiasco that left the airline with too few workers to fly its planes and process baggage...........





YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!! :eek: :eek:
So? My dad has worked weekends for a couple of months before. He knows people that have been doing Saturdays without pay for a year. If my boss asked me to do that, I'd do that. That's work, that's life, it's not pretty.

[Redratio1]

For free? Give me a break. What idiots think that is going to 'fly'?

Moron suits should get a pay cut, or work for free so they can buy all their passangers tickets on other airlines.

The nerve!

[Redratio1]

So? My dad has worked weekends for a couple of months before. He knows people that have been doing Saturdays without pay for a year. If my boss asked me to do that, I'd do that. That's work, that's life, it's not pretty.

I believe it is also illegal. I think there is something called overtime laws.

[green lantern]

I believe it is also illegal. I think there is something called overtime laws. you are correct.

[mataj]

STAKHANOVISTS FROM ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

http://www.values.ch/Communism/China/Farming/stakhanovism.htm

[patrickt]

I guess I'm an idiot. I am retired now but I worked for free at times. It wasn't because I felt an obligation to the organization but I did feel an obligation to the people we served.

[spork]

Oh, pity the poor CEO at US Air - he took a 20% pay cut last year.

• US Airways' David Siegel would receive $600,000, vs. last year's compensation valued at up to $10 million. Siegel, CEO since March 2002, earlier agreed to a 20% pay cut for 2003.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2003/2003-04-03-air-ceos.htm

If Seigel came in on the holiday to work hucking luggage around, I'm sure his employees would do the same.

[eugene40]

I guess I'm an idiot. I am retired now but I worked for free at times. It wasn't because I felt an obligation to the organization but I did feel an obligation to the people we served.


Ahh but see we take an oath.... the baggage handler does not..... I view our oath as something that is higher then just a contract to get paid for work.... We say we will serve and protect.... and sometimes,,, not all the time,,, we will work and event or a day even to support that.....

[spork]

I guess I'm an idiot. I am retired now but I worked for free at times. It wasn't because I felt an obligation to the organization but I did feel an obligation to the people we served.

You probably worked for an organization that felt loyalty and obligation to you. You say you're retired - do you have a pension, and medical benefits?

The increasing lack of employer loyalty (downsizing, benefit chopping, overseas outsourcing, and pension de-frauding, while CEO's get those golden parachutes) is going to come back to bite them in the heinie. If a company shows no loyalty to the employees, they should not be surprised to get the same treatment in return.

[green lantern]

You probably worked for an organization that felt loyalty and obligation to you. You say you're retired - do you have a pension, and medical benefits?

The increasing lack of employer loyalty (downsizing, benefit chopping, overseas outsourcing, and pension de-frauding, while CEO's get those golden parachutes) is going to come back to bite them in the heinie. If a company shows no loyalty to the employees, they should not be surprised to get the same treatment in return.
:clap: :clap: exactly

[patrickt]

Spork: I have no pension or medical benefits. Of course, that was my choice. I could have had both. I am also not elegible for Social Security or Medicare. That was my choice, too. I am quite happy with my choices. But that's beside the point. When I was working I felt very limited loyalty to the organization but I did feel a great deal of loyalty to the people for whom we provided a service. I simply don't agree with the sentiment that anyone who does something for any reason other than money is an idiot.