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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 1966012" data-attributes="member: 229">I'm saying the only people who care are the ones who continued doing their job (competently) despite how miserable they were made (and I'm not pro/anti union, I'm against corporate incompetence).   They finally had enough since they see that the company is going down in flames no matter what they do.The shareholders care about exactly one thing - and it ain't the comfort of the passengers, the welfare of the employees, or the brand name.  It's money, and with corporate shareholders having shorter and shorter life-spans, buying a large chunk of stock in a company is more like day-trading and a lot less like a long-term investment.  The investors What the executives and shareholders did with AMR is basically one of the saddest most dangerous games of chicken in the history of corporate America and the worker-bees (including non-labor IT workers) fell for it for quite a few years before finally bucking up against it.  It used to be that investors, executives, and financiers had long-term interests, so they actually still cared about profit 1st, but then a close 2nd was the happiness/comfort of the employees (because happy employees are more productive/loyal than miserable ones who are screwed every chance you get), and 3rd was the community/economy.Now its all about the money baby.  Fact: Pretty much any board member in a larger public corporation has signed a document stating that they would stab a baby in the face if it gained them a quick nickel per share.**Based on research I did while looking through YouTube videos of Scrubs out-takes/bloopers.</blockquote>

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