Originally Posted by
kansas
Surprised no one's mentioned it yet, but the upgrade at Great Lakes is still pretty short to the 1900. It was right around a year, but recently things have slowed a bit to about a year and a half. Still not too bad, even though just a year as an FO at Lakes is more than long enough for most.
I have some friends over there and you guys have a great bunch of guys working there, but there is no way I could work there for a year before upgrade. That is mainly because of the pay. If you are willing to tuck your tail between your legs and slide into a 1900 then I would do it here first. Upgrade comes when ever you want it. Our CP writes an email about every 45 days begging ppl to upgrade....then they just hire more street CA's to cover the work.
The real problem is all those 5 and 10 minute turns though, and those are still a reality at Lakes as well. That is one thing that helps you get violated. Trying to go through a 7 or 8 page release and find problems with it and be gone in that time span is just asking for trouble.
