Originally Posted by
757Driver
............By the way, here’s a little-known tidbit that you can’t believe is true until it happens to you: regardless of how or why you make contact with Crew Scheduling (including initiating a call to them), it is considered “contact,” and they can junior-man you. Even if you called to innocently point out a mistake they have made (and make the world a better place), you are putting yourself “in harm’s way.” This has come up in the past, and our management is quoted as saying that they don’t need—or want—our help to point out their mistakes.
Yep. We can’t make this stuff up.
Happened to me last week. Finished a trip with a red-eye and no assignment or phone window within the 15 minute debrief period. Caught my flight home and hit the hay with the phone off. Got up around 3-4 that afternoon and lo and behold a phone availability window and a trip assignment for the next morning. There's that horrible feeling you get when you begin to assume you missed something in your bleary-eyed state and are truly supposed to do that trip.
First things first; yes I had printed my master schedule. Every reserve pilot should do so after their last trip into days off, movable or not. Finding my schedule, the relief that I had not screwed up was put on hold as now what do I do? Call the union or the UDO hotline. After talking with them and reassuring them I had not called crew scheduling, they simply reminded me I was not responsible for any phone window or trip that fell outside of the CBA. They suggested turning the phone off and enjoy my days off.
Funny thing. Checking my schedule the next day, the trip and the phone window were mysteriously gone and my schedule again matched the printed version I had.
Dignity and respect my ***!