Originally Posted by orvil

Back in the day, I was at Roscoe's, the restaurant over at the MAT. We were just starting to furlough. This LCA is telling me and my soon to be furloughed FO how he was assigned a green slip and he had to take it because he made the mistake of answering his phone.

I'm thinking to myself, you didn't try very hard, you wanted it and were just using answering your phone as an excuse.

It's the same with jet bridge assignments. I've gotten out of multiple jet bridge assignments. All you have to say is either you don't have child care or you are fatigued. You can come up with other good reasons. However, I wouldn't use I just had drink If a guy takes it, he can complain all he wants. But, deep down, he really wanted it.