Originally Posted by
kingairip
Doesn't it help you out to do the schedulers a favor every once in a while? If you help them out of a jam, won't they be more inclined to do you a solid when you need one? Seems like normal human interaction to me...
As a new guy, I did a number of favors for CS. Then, I'd call to see if they could help me with a trip trade, or a day off due to a family issue, or any one of a number of things called
normal human life.
They didn't tell me to eff off, but the result was the same. Thus, I don't do them favors any more. They've done none for me.
True story: I was reserve MD-11, on a Golden Day off. I was scheduled to be on call at midnight. At 1830, the phone rang. It was CS, calling, I assumed, for a trip the next day.
"We need you to cover the all-nighter to Santiago Chile tonight. It leaves at 2000."
"But I'm on a golden. You can't do that."
"Here's your choices. You can cover this trip now, or we will re-schedule it for 0101, with a sign in of 0001. And you will fly it then. You can go now, or delay 225 people 5+ hours. What'll it be?"
I took the trip. I was going to fly it anyhow, so why screw over the pax? If we had been in one of our many horrendous contract negotiations, I would have let them reschedule the trip.
