Things don't happen here daily as you imply but they do happen, and they happen a lot when there are operational difficulties. Such as snow in Seattle and the fact that April changes to May at the end of the month.

Personally I have dealt with:

- Short show call on reserve (less than 2 hours)
- Assignment over 15 hours on reserve
- Reassignment created due to an illegality where I was not given the option to pick an open flying trip, or drop the trip because I was over a certain amount of hours and was assigned a red eye trip. The scheduler hung up on me when I politely reminded them of these parts of the contract. The scheduler just repeated "I'm assigning you the trip" and hung up.

I have watched how the captains I have flown with are treated and I've witnessed them being treated far worse. Usually the conflicts arise from "grey area" language in the contract. For example one captain was on a line but the next month was on reserve. Schedulers attempted to make him DH after we finished our trip in Seattle to be in position for reserve in another city. The contract did not clearly show who was correct. In these cases typically the pilot loses. Also those who try and "do the right thing" are often punished by an uncaring CPO and schedulers. One captain attempting to make it to a family function called the CPO asking to be at an event. The CPO and schedulers created a horrible situation with a red eye trip that put the pilot in a far worse situation to try and make it to the family event. What the CPO and schedulers didn't realize is that I was watching this develop and learned through someone else's experience to use "third step" or sick time to be home for important events.

It appears you were in training during our last operational meltdown if you have been on the property for 10 months. It snowed in Seattle (gasp) and chaos ensued. Many of us were stuck away from family during Christmas because our return flight cancelled. We could not even contact the company to find out what was happening. I do not wish any of these problems on you and hope you continue with your wonderful honeymoon at your employer. Hopefully a new contract fixes many of the issues those of us who have been on the property longer than you have faced. I hope you continue to scratch your head and wonder why so many of us are upset with how we have been treated because you have been treated far better. That means that our union which is fighting for you and many volunteers have done their jobs well.