Originally Posted by
Thrust Hold
In addition to the proabtionary pilot that happened to there were some other unusual circumstances as well. One pilot called mid trip to turn in his two weeks notice with his Fleet Chief and was immediately replaced out in the field and DH'd home. Another pilot commuted in to start a trip, turned in his two weeks notice and was removed from the trip and sent back home.
There's a flip side to this and it's pretty funny.
There was a regional guy way back in the day who gave his notice by diverting to his home town airport, calling in his immediate resignation, and walking off the plane.
IIRC he was leaving aviation for good, and didn't GAS. They raked the FO over the coals, but the CA had claimed he felt some strange prop vibration or something to that effect so they weren't quite able to make anything stick.