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Haha I miss compass a little now

All great stuff. I agree, I miss driving to work, flying day trips with great captains and double waving at fellow CPZ members and yes, even occasionally mainline. (Just for you Melit)

Hope all is well with my CPZ homies.


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What’s the “pen incident”?

A certain Compass pilot had a nice pen that they kept in their uniform blazer, which was hanging in the crew room. One day, said pilot went to his jacket and discovered his prized pen was missing. Even though the pilot knew the crew room was accessible to more than just pilots, he proceeded to send out an email to the entire pilot group saying that he was upset his pen had been stolen, and that while he wasn't mad, he was disappointed. He would calm down if whoever the offender was would simply place it in his V file in the same crew room the pen was taken from.

Numerous pilots took compassion on this poor soul knowing that his lack of a pen would result in a spike in ASAPs, and so to ensure the company was not overwhelmed, several fellow pilots decided to collect every hotel pen from their layover hotels and place them in this wronged pilot's V file. This was so successful that the pen-less pilot's V file became completely stuffed to the gills with pens from all across the system of hotels Compass pilots stay at. Our poor hero then sent a follow-up email that explained that he was upset that he had gotten so many pens in his V file that it was bursting at the seams and none of them were the pen he wanted and for said acts of compassion to stop because he had a fever, and the only prescription was the pen he had loved first and lost.

At least that's how I remember the tale. :D

Lest us not forget the “UGH” heard around the world either


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I ALMOST replied with "FlytheSky? Can you take this one?" but I wasn't sure if you would see.. But sure enough :D:p

Perfect summary sir

Compass Airlines is probably the best job I’ve ever and will ever have. End of story. The amount of times I’ve almost thrown up from laughing is hard to count.


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I couldn't remember if the V file incident was BU (Before Ugh) or AU (After Ugh). My gut says it was AU. Alas, my memory of the exact timeline of events during my early days at Compass grow hazy with time. :(

Enjoy

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The V file incident was A.U


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LOL y’all are awesome. That’s hilarious. Thank you for sharing that.

What’s the “UGH” heard around the world?

Every month I was at Compass, a bid packet would be sent from the head of crew planning to the entire pilot group via company email, and some managers in crew scheduling. Included in the text of said email is occasionally other bits of unusual info. This month, crew planning said that they would offer long call reserve to some pilots (a limited number, but still greater than 0). In response, the manager of crew scheduling replied all with one word saying "ugh." The best part, besides the fact that this now got sent to the ENTIRE pilot group and several high-ups in management, was that her signature said "have a nice day" with an airplane made out of varying keyboard symbols arranged into a T-tail plane (even though Compass had not flown any CRJs for years), along with her name.

She then got a talking to from the system chief pilot (among others), and was told she needed to keep her communications more professional and show more respect for the pilot group. Later the same day that "ugh" was sent, the system chief pilot sent out an email to the entire pilot group saying that the situation had been handled and that she was properly reprimanded.

This was just one of many instances of people in headquarters not knowing how to send emails properly. Some highlights from my time there include a long email chain of gossip (with nothing at all relating to work) between two employees in TSH headquarters in STL being sent to the entire pilot group unintentionally after it had about 6 emails of text back and forth. A few emails from flight attendant managers detailing flight attendants that were fired and not eligible for rehire being sent to the entire pilot group (to which two pilots then replied all saying "good luck" to the flight attendant who had been fired). An email from someone training mechanics with names and some basic info asking for SSNs and other highly confidential information of new employees that clearly was meant as an internal memo that got sent to the entire pilot group. And finally, in response to an email that crew scheduling sent out looking for someone to pick up a 2 day trip for "critical pay", a certain pilot replied all to the entire pilot group saying that he'd pick it up for "crib pay" instead of "crit pay" (autocorrect fail) if they bought him off his 3 day trip that started on day 2 of the original trip. :D

That darned “reply all” button!

Thanks for sharing.

”Crib pay.” Sounds like something to aspire to with creative whining...

I always thought crib pay was just some LA gangsta pilot slang. Can I unlearn what I just learned?

Nah, nothing beats an email that was sent to like everyone with aa.com address, followed by 1,600+ "plz remove me from this group email" emails in the next 6-8 hours. Phones and tablets were dinging non-stop and many ughs and arghs were heard.
Took someone threatening to subscribe the next responder to Amish porn mail list for it all to stop.

I asked approximately 2 months before the closing of the doors. I asked for my training/personal/permanent records when everyone assumed business was usual and we would continue flying for American. I do not have the exact date but I explained why I wanted them. They did end up sending my pria stuff but I wanted to go to a job fair and prove my record over 5 years was perfect with no mfas, discipline, commuter clause ect. I am 100% convinced I will never be able to get ahold of actual records I can use to my benefit. For this reason I am very disappointed I took the job seriously and didn't put my family and personal life first.

You don't remember this? We put out tons of menses making fun of it... We called him G money for like a year

No no no this is Compass lore that will live on forever. Ugh, The Great Pen Heist, crib pay, and the famous double wave must never be forgotten. You will tell your grand kids these stories one day.

I totally remember crib pay! I didn't know that someone accidentally willed it into existence, though. I thought it was just a natural extension of working in the flizizzle deck.

That being said, I woke up this morning without any shadows of "crib pay is really crit pay" hovering over my hotel bed, so I must be okay with it now. :D

Brilliant.

Y’all got any more of them stories?

Hey guys, remember when a certain Isaac (not that Isaac) figured out how to change his name in Flica and then everyone else started doing it? There were some pretty creative names before mgmt found out and shut it down 😅

I just miss seeing the hang gliders every day landing in LA.

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The most important part of this story:

”Hey guys, remember...FLiCA...?”

Ugh you guys are making me miss this place :(

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One of the great things about working at Spirit is being reunited with Flica. I’m imagining that picture of the creepy van that says Free Candy on the side but a yellow van with a spirit decal that says Free Flica. I’d make a meme if I had any skills.

That may have led to a call from pro stands.

Totally worth it.

Password1!

Does anyone know how to change the font in IOCC? Pls help. Thanks.


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Omg remember one of the first employee calls after IOCC was implemented. It was a sh**show but so hilarious. I remember someone playing the national anthem in the background during the outro motivational speech.

Haha yep.. A month or so earlier gojet had lost operational control when they "rolled out" iocc. We all knew we were in for a ride.

“but I really need to know how to change the font my on duty plan!”

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Breeze buying Compass Operating Certificate

https://thepointsguy.com/news/neelem...coast-flights/

Yeah and going to use your old SOC in Building C initially for flight ops.