Originally Posted by
cessna157
Yeah, that much I understand. That's a nice feature to get notified of all of your trips. But if you're junior manned upon arrival and you fail to check out and get notified, I'd think that's an automatic SD.
I know I'm going to catch a lot of flack for this, but I'll say it anyway. We beg, pleade, and fight with scheduling to do everything legally. When they slip up and give an illegal trip, just a friendly correction from us usually fixes the problem. A junior manning assignment is perfectly legal. It seems hypocritical for us to complain when they screw up, but then to run and hide and not fulfill our end of the contract when they provide a perfectly legal JM.
I think of it more of a shot on management for refusing to staff the airline properly and driving people away. I took my first and only JM in 3 years like a man, it sucks, but it was legal and they had me at work already...no way out of it.
As for JM'ing someone while their at home, well that is where the gamesmanship begins...though I haven't heard of any good stories recently.