Originally Posted by
N311JB
Look. The system has been the same way since we all started working here. When u couldn’t drop a trip you whined. Now the opposite. In 2008 the same thing happened. Nothing changed. And for the seniority rules people that’s in place. You have 3 rounds! To pick something up.
It’s too funny you guys let a these thoughts dance in your head. I avg 85hrs a month. I’m not defending anyone. I think there should be a cap as well. I think picking up with furloughs is a dirt bag move. Just stop spending so much time on a message board watching every hot chick go home with someone else.
You all realize the trips come out the same time every day! Have you seen what some do? A certain captain that lives in MCO but commutes and is a politician walks around with like 5 devices hooked up. Paying for superspeed routers and phone lines.
It doesn't matter how long the system has been in place. If it requires special pro athlete level skills, or special tricks, and allows small groups of people to game the system in several ways and accumulate 90+% of the open time, it's a BAD and inequitable system. You don't live with a bad system just because it's the "way we've always done it".
And not being able to drop is a staffing issue. That's not even apples and oranges. It's apples and condoms.