Originally Posted by
Fixnem2Flyinem
Man o man.. I done trying to explain what happened.. so here is the bullet points
-Hired Oct 2017, made it through training with no issues and well within the footprint.
-Commuted to ORD, LAX then SEA while living in PDX
-Had two sick calls while at SkyWest, one dated in Feb and the next was a week earlier in May, these were legit sick calls that I truly felt that flying a plane wasn’t the right and legal thing to do. How I gauge that is if I bend metal, will I have done explaining to do on my health at the time...
-Mid May, I gave my self not 1, not 2 but 4 options to get from PDX to SEA. See I drove when possible, but on a whopping 1800 a month take home gas money wasn’t abundant. All QX flights were hosed, the OO Delta flight I missed due to a listing issue that is well documented. A flight that had open seat BTW, a situation that management didn’t take into consideration at all. Then another SkyWest CRJ that was late.
-The missed flight was a CDO that I had been given 12 hour call out. I was called at 845am for an 845pm show. I had proof being at the airport by 430 trying to list on that first Delta flight. Doesn’t sound like an unreliability issue to me
-Originally fired, although I didn’t just roll over. I reached out to SAPA and other resources, then was allowed to resign.
Those are the big points... Full story is buried back in another SkyWest Page.
Again, thanks for sharing. Might help somebody else to better understand things.
Also worth noting: Managers (all airlines) have a VERY low tolerance for folks who miss a LCR callout. Commuter policies often explicitly exclude that.