Pakagecheck

Dude,
Thanks for the info!! I'm really glad there are extra sani wipes on the a/c!!!!

Pakagecheck

Maybe I am being naive, but what dark intentions?

Gunter

Ask your block rep.

av8rmike

The 'step required' is I pull up the trip in Trip Recap in VIPS then click on the guys employee number so I can open his calendar, then cut & paste his/her employee number from their calendar and go to the email to send them a PDO request. Sometimes if the trip isn't that far out, I'll cut & paste their employee number from their calendar and go to get their phone number. In this case, I like to look at their calendar and try to call them when they're least likely to be sleeping.

That's how I do it because that's how I do it. I really couldn't give a rat's if there's an easier or more convenient way, this works for me. It has the added benefit of highlighting calendar blockers which then prompts me to immediately move to the NEXT trip I wanted to bump. You want to be a schedule blocker, fine. I won't be PDO bumping you. Personal choice, kind of like how I go way out of my way to buy American at every purchase I can...

Pakagecheck

Actually spoke to him and pro Stan's in the last two weeks. The only "dark" was a while back involving looking at a dp then using VIPs to access some phone numbers and calls that I heard of. Never heard calendars were part of that or any other issue. So any general light shed would be helpful.

HKFlyr

This is a topic I wouldn't discuss on here because of management lurkers...

Unless you forget, we recently had a guy put on the beach for several months...i.e. fired, then eventually rehired, (something to that effect)

The checking of other peoples calanders was directly an issue in his discipline case.

Remember, they know everything you do on the website...or when you jumpseat off line - when sick, or where you call in from, etc, etc.

Don't give them a stick to beat us with...which we seem to do a lot here. We already have 4 hostages in HK...

My 2 cents worth.

Pakagecheck

Noted, thanks

golfandfly

If my memory serves me correctly, I heard this individual not only checked the calendars, he also left messages on their phones reflecting his opinion. But, yes, I also heard they reviewed every key stroke. I may be wrong as this was crew rumor, but this is my best recollection.

I have never considered blocking my schedule until reading this thread. Some of you guys have lost it. So now it's a trust issue? Are you f'ing kidding me?

I know who flies DPs every month in my aircraft. I check it, and use the trip number and date. I don't need to see someone's schedule to see it. I care about DPs. I don't get jealous if someone hawks open time and gets better trips. I don't care and if I wanted to do it, I could.

Some of you seem like stalkers. Get a life!

Lucky7

One pilot told me a story of a soon to be ex-wife who was getting his schedule from mutual pilot friends and using the info to his detriment, ex: when his trips started, ended, where he was bidding layovers. He blocked the calender from the ex-to-be's friends. Sounded reasonable to me.
Before you start on the Fedex access/ thats not legal, She didn't give 2 sh;;ts about Fedex rules she wanted her half.

A couple reasons I've come across to use others calenders.... I wanted to offer a trip trade that was beneficial to the other pilot but on different days. Kind of useless to ask about a trade when they are working that week. I'm not going to ask to PDO bump a guy in the middle of a string of hub turns, I've also checked the calender before a call to try and time it without disrupting a layover. Getting a calender blocked has and should have a negative implication. There is something you don't want your co-workers to see.

Chainsaw

Ok package, that is funny. My comment was directed more at the guy who said he "wouldn't want to run into a calendar blocker" or "talk to a calendar blocker". The whole social leper thing came to mind. I guess it is the scarlet CB now, not A anymore. That being said, I will say that sani wipes can coat, soothe and relieve!!