Originally Posted by
Thunder1
SlipKid,
You and I have very different definitions of ACTUAL WORK.
Apparently.
If you're on the hook for a 2 hour show, sorry, you're at WORK....
Yes, reserve IS a day of work when it comes to pay, the contract, fighting for pay per day so we no longer sit for free like we used to. I will be right there in 2020 picketing beside you, like I did last time, fighting to get many improvement including reserve pay at 6.5 TFP per day.
However, this thread was talking about quality of life. When I live in domicile and sit reserve and not get used it is not a day of work when it comes to my quality of life -- hell, I've been out wake boarding/wake surfing on Lake Mead while on reserve -- hardly a day of actual work. Cheers!
That sounds like one of my first flying jobs. We were on call 24/7. If you didn't get used, that became your day "off", after the fact.
I also sat 5.5 out of 7 years on reserve at a previous company. 2.5 of them were when I lived 5 minutes from the airport. I used to do outside stuff too, but I couldn't get too comfortable or make any plans because the chances of getting called out was always hanging over my head. At that place, we didn't use reserves anywhere
near like we do here. I averaged 6 days of flying a month out of 18 days of reserve.
I lost count of the number of times I made plans or dug into a project only to have the beeper go off and had to leave to go fly.
It wasn't horrible, but I wasn't OFF if I didn't get called either.
Reserve days are work days. Period.