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Originally Posted by WickedSmaht
You have no claim to "turning down" a GS unless it involves child care, alcohol consumption or being WAY out of position. If they want to accept an hour delay to accommodate your commute? They can do that. Your commute time is not automatically exclusionary, it's a guide and they can hang the trip on you if you answer the phone. Simple fix, don't want to fly the trip? Let it go to VM and let the 10 mins go by.
Which is why its such an asinine policy.
I bet for every sucker they "gotcha!" with this, they spend literally thousands of man hours calling every 10 minutes. It would benefit them and us far more if you could answer any GS call without penalty or jeopardy. Even if someone flat out says I'm 5 minutes away in uniform bags packed but I don't want to do it" its easier to move on than to leave a string of VM's sometimes for HOURS looping back around to the same trip(s) after they've been chopped up.
Its a lame concept that seeks to "cover" something even at times by not actually covering it...merely seeking someone to blame it on above all else. And the kicker is, even if they "get" someone that way, had that person simply not answered, it would have been chalked up to no crews anyway.
Stupid antiquated policy that fools no one and results in no additional coverage and only creates way more work for everyone involved.