Our work group has reached an agreement with the company as have all the work groups with the exception of the pilots, who I've been told, will reach one by the end of the month.
BOOMER!!!! Sorry, the Sooners just scored.
Anyway, if that holds true, AA or more specifically AMR Corp. will exit bankruptcy fairly soon.
While we all feel we've been kicked pretty hard, and there will be layoffs of several hundred in our work group, we didn't take a pay cut, as far as dollars per hour. We will be hit with higher health insurance costs, but for me, that's going to amount to about $80 a month. Not that bad, everything considering.
While we've all been walking around with our faces dragging in the mud, understandably, something happened today that made me rethink my attitude.
I sneaked on a plane early as passengers were deplaning and was working my way down the aisle toward the back as a few passengers, still on the plane, were gathering their things and making their way forward, when I noticed the final two passengers in the back. They were a gray haired man and an mentally challenged teenaged boy. I could hear the gray haired man repeating to the teen "Do you want a Dr. Pepper? Then no touching." What he was trying to do was get the boy out of their row of seats and off the plane without the boy trying to touch anyone. Specifically, the two female flight attendants at the back of the plane with them. So they make their way up the aisle, toward me. I'm in a row of seats, working, when they pass me and the teen aged boy, who I would guess to be 18 or 19, reached over to me, patted me on the shoulder, and asked with a huge grin on his face.. "How's it going, fucker?" I swear to you, that's exactly what he said. I replied that I was doing just fine, thanks.
The two guys I was working with, who hadn't gotten on the plane yet, told me that he gave each of them a hug on the jet bridge before they continued on their way.
When you see something like that, you are reminded that you really don't have anything to complain about.
