Years ago I had a jumpseater dump his pass with F/A and hurry to the back to take a seat. The capt had a scab list and sure enough, this guy scabbed at CAL in '83. We told the F/A to send him back up to the front. We asked him what he was doing in 1983.... He had no clue what we were talking about. When we mentioned that he was on a scab list from CAL, he said that someone came to his FBO and offered him a Flight Engineer position at CAL. He was not properly rated. He said that he never went to class because he wasn't rated, and that the FAA used his case to sue CAL over hiring and using FE's that weren't certified... Therefore, he was not a scab, and the list was wrong... OK.. Departure time.. Have a seat and we'll talk later...
After the flight... Guy is steaming about scab list and comes up to the cockpit to tell us that scab lists are bogus, we're being unfair to him, chews us out for using a scab list, and tells us he would sue us if we denied him boarding, and he was going to sue the maker of the scab list...
After this guy unloaded on us, we got the real story. After he got his ride, the story changed. He said he went to class but didn't finish. We asked why he went to work during a strike. He said he didn't know that CAL was on strike..
Yeah, BS... But after 3 days of getting spit on and food thrown at him when he got off the employee bus, he figured that he shouldn't be there and quit. Yeah, right. From his tone we could tell he was lying about something. After CAL, he told us that he washed out of training at UPS, quit at Hawaiian because it was a difficult commute, and now was in training at National....
See what happens to scabs! My theory is that UPS trainers washed him out knowing he was a scab... Couldn't jumpseat to Hawaii because he was a scab... (But he's never heard of a scab list???
) The only place left was gambling on a startup LCC...
Let this be a lesson to all... Had he not scabbed, he would likely have had a prosperous career since 1983... The consequences of being selfish for a paycheck 24 years ago cost him a lifetime of being unsuccessful!