Originally Posted by
gloopy
And you really can't apply common sense to this (including the contractual "big excuses" list) and are stuck on the answered/didn't answer the phone part of it.
Again... Where is this "big excuses" list in the contract? Find me the reference instead of just telling us we're wrong.
Originally Posted by
gloopy
I don't know why you're lobbying so hard for that interpretation of it.
Nobody is lobbying hard for this interpretation. FL370esq hit the nail on the head. The company is obviously not holding many pilot's feet to the fire when it comes to answering phones on green slips (although, they could and that's my argument). I think it benefits everybody if the company is easy going when it comes to making pilots fly overtime trips. The only problem with blanket green slips for scheduling is that it wastes a scheduler's time calling people who have no intention of flying certain trips. Go ahead and talk to a scheduling supervisor. Ask them yourself. They don't like it. It makes an already labor intensive job more difficult. It takes a minute or two just to put a couple qualifiers in but saves scheduling a ton of headache when manually dialing the phone numbers of possibly hundreds of pilots.