To add the commute was through CLT.
In December. Snow was falling. Hence the delays and cancellations. When explaining that IF I had flown in, with the ride to and from the hotel, then at most I could have gotten 5 hours of sleep. I remember them saying, “it’s your responsibility to get to work with enough time to be well rested.” I explained that I left at 10a the morning prior. They said “I should have left the day before.” So remember guys to commute in 36hrs prior.
It was made very clear to me that if you are worried about fatigue, don’t bother calling early enough to help anyone. Wait until you get to the gate, call crew scheduling, put it on speakerphone, pick up the mic for the intercom, start yawning loud enough for the guys in the A gates to hear you, repeat until they remove you.
With the amount of crap they make us listen too in training and the atp-ctp course about fatigue, they don’t give a damn about us flying comprised.
Other info.... The THIRD flight leaving at 10p, I was number #53 on the standby. Had already been delayed. The only reason I was given the MA was that I went home. If I got a hotel in CLT then nothing would have happened. I am obviously not granted any commuter hotels in CLT or I would have stayed there. No point having a crash pad in the intermediate commuting location. Sometimes I did CLT, sometimes ATL, DCA, DFW. Can’t afford one at all of those and one in base and my mortgage.
You guys are RIGHT. The contract says nothing about going home. Also doesn’t say take third flight. I think it’s messed up, IF someone has a one leg commute and can go home, then there is no obligation to catch the THIRD or fourth flight even if they could. I went home just like anyone else would have, it’s just that my ride home was an RJ and not a corolla.

No it was not in LGA though I have my own issues with that guy. Twas in MIA.