Originally Posted by Timbo

I had this same thing happen a couple times 25 years ago when I was a mid seniority MD11 FO. This one particular semi senior FO would always call the junior FO and come up with some hardship story begging for a swap….so he’d be the senior FO with a LCA going ATL-Europe. He stays home, you go to work.

After he pulled this stunt on me, twice, I “fixed it” by calling the number 1 FO and swapping my FRA trip with him, so the D-bag semi senior FO was now the junior FO and had to go on the IOE for someone else, while I got to fly the most senior trip in the base (3 day NRT worth 27) and the number 1 FO stayed home and picked up a GS to NRT the next day!

So….if you see this kind of crap on a regular basis, call the most senior FO and swap with them, make that other turd go to work!