Originally Posted by
XtremeF150
One of the guys leaned to side of caution and chose to return to SLC when a line of thunderstorms was over his destination. He was unable to reach the company on SelCall and told the ground crew he was diverting. Well they said they called dispatch and that dispatch wanted him to hold. The CA decided he wasn't comfortable with this and went to SLC. 1 week later he was returned to FO status and pay. We have several CA's with letters just for incorrectly blocking the flight time. Another words they called the block in time 5 or 10 minutes after they landed. Wrong...yes but justified?? Another CA boarded the pax and shut the door and left. Well aparently they left a pax. Gate agent supposedly sent message they were waiting on a pax. CA says no. Ground crew marshalled the CA out??Alright I know if pax stop coming and the ground crew starts marshalling, personally I'm gone. Any one that works on the little props know that each stop is like a madrush anyways. Long story short, I feel MOST of these incidents were no reason to bump someone back to FO and especially not let them go. I could post a ton of these things incidents too which is sad considering we only have about 70 CA's anyways. So in one year I have seen this many incidents within that small of a group. So you have to ask yourself "Do you feel lucky?, Well...Do you punk!"
No all kidding aside just becareful in your choices.
All of that stuff could probably be easily corrected, so there is certainly not any reason to be punishing people. Those guys that are getting demoted should just walk out of there. Although I think you guys still have training contracts at Mesa. They can do much better as an FO somewhere else. Oh well, it's Mesa.