Originally Posted by rickair7777

I have heard of that happening back in the day when they ran payroll with index cards, lol.

I know a guy who was sent TDY on reserve to some little turboprop domicile in New England...crew tracking promptly forgot about him, but payroll did not. He collected guarantee and per diem for several months, and then realized that he wasn't going to get called, so he went home. This lasted for a year...when they finally called him, he got off the hook because he hadn't flown an airplane in 12 months so he could not accept the reserve assignment They had to send him back to the sim...