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Old 02-13-2015 | 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Carl Spackler
Sounds like you handled yourself great. But I'm curious whether they paid you for this "interview"? I don't mind cooperating on investigations for free, but other than that, I would need a day of pay to come in and discuss anything outside of a specific investigative need.

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Carl. BLUF - no. And I asked the Union and Co. A buddy said should have expensed it but I wanted to be done with ATL for a bit.
Old 02-13-2015 | 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Flamer
Don't forget to call the ESGR. Some of the newer programs they are trying out are not ussera compliant. If enough people log their calls into ESGR I'm guessing they won't win that freedom award next year.
I spoke with USERRA ombudsmen via the ESGE/USERRA site. What they did was legal but stretching it a bit....so it was logged and they had to answer the mail on it.
Old 02-13-2015 | 10:10 AM
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Deltanet sure is slow today with everyone looking at their ps check. Was just now able to backdoor my March award on the crew resources page by changing the pdf url. Does anyone else notice that all the monthly awards are posted in icrew right away, then pulled out. I saw that yesterday, by pulling up specific March rotations the A positions had all been filled. I've seen that phenomenon in past months as well.
Old 02-13-2015 | 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by blue vortex
Deltanet sure is slow today with everyone looking at their ps check. Was just now able to backdoor my March award on the crew resources page by changing the pdf url. Does anyone else notice that all the monthly awards are posted in icrew right away, then pulled out. I saw that yesterday, by pulling up specific March rotations the A positions had all been filled. I've seen that phenomenon in past months as well.
Having worked in PBS a few years ago, I can explain why that is so. After the bid runs are complete the company assigns all the trips in DBMS to the awarded pilots, as determined by the PBS software. Then the company does an FAR legality check from within DBMS and makes sure that the PBS software did not miss anything. 99.9% of the time the two systems are in agreement and the schedules are then released. Every blue moon some software hiccup occurs and the company determines that the PBS software missed something: new FAA interpretation of an obscure sub-section, new contractual side letter that did not get fully reprogrammed, etc. Then you might see a particular category's result get pulled, the software updated to properly reflect the new information, and the category rerun.
Old 02-13-2015 | 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Herkflyr

THAT said, despite the constant teeth-gnashing and boo-hooing you read in this place .... DALPA has made a lot of very good, incremental gains on what I call the "margins" of the contract. The list is getting quite extensive, but it includes:
"Marginal" gains with record profits. Fantastic.

the "rest of the story..."
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and ALPA promised they heard us "loud and clear" before the last contract.

So they brought us 4833, ALV+15, reduced profit sharing, sick leave verification, 7 short calls--and the negotiating committee went rogue to finish the "deal." We bailed out the company's 50-seat crisis. ALPA also promised 300 early-outs which never materialized, and stated that we'd never see the "3-3" part of the deal. Don't forget, hiring took a year longer than implied.

We gave up (?) in return for airplanes the company was going to get anyway.

To top it off, we were assaulted with a slick marketing campaign featuring multi-media doses of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Paid for with our dues money.

Meanwhile, the company is ignoring our JV protections, and the "union" is silent.

The good news is, "labor risk is off the table" for RA, and "our" "union" president gave a national interview saying we only wanted raises in the "margin" for C2015 because we have a "mature contract." Good times.

Oh, and the survey results were never released.
Old 02-13-2015 | 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Herkflyr
I use the Pro Diem folks. Their website is a mangled mess (way too many colors, references to Windows Vista, but not Win 7 or 8!) but the end result product is quite good, and one of their attachments will give you an entire year's summary of your flying.
Thanks. Not interested in paying for another 3rd party solution. If there isn't a 1 button solution on deltanet, how about a 100 button solution? I can't even figure out how to look at my rotations from December.
Old 02-13-2015 | 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by MikeF16
Thanks. Not interested in paying for another 3rd party solution. If there isn't a 1 button solution on deltanet, how about a 100 button solution? I can't even figure out how to look at my rotations from December.
Spend the money (about $60) for Pro-Diem. They will get you a full print out of your yearly schedule with the max allowable deduction for each layover. By the time you spend the time trying to download your schedule and your accountant calculates the allowable deductions, it is money well spent. Just my experience.
Old 02-13-2015 | 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by maddogmax
Spend the money (about $60) for Pro-Diem. They will get you a full print out of your yearly schedule with the max allowable deduction for each layover. By the time you spend the time trying to download your schedule and your accountant calculates the allowable deductions, it is money well spent. Just my experience.
Thanks for the post. I glommed onto the $400 audit support and didn't read that wasn't what I was looking for.

Is this something I have to keep up with trip to trip or do I just give the website my login info and it magically spits out a printout the next day?
Old 02-13-2015 | 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by MikeF16
Thanks. Not interested in paying for another 3rd party solution. If there isn't a 1 button solution on deltanet, how about a 100 button solution? I can't even figure out how to look at my rotations from December.
Having had a couple random audits over the years; the IRS wants to see something akin to the ProDiem print out. Delta doesn't offer anything unless you've been printing out your monthly LOT's over the year. I had my own log (all done in XCL and compliant with IRS studs) and the IRS still wanted a different copy. When I handed in the ProDiem package, they were fine and accepted my deductions. BTW, the ProDiem was a bit more generous than my own log.
Old 02-13-2015 | 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by MikeF16
Thanks for the post. I glommed onto the $400 audit support and didn't read that wasn't what I was looking for.

Is this something I have to keep up with trip to trip or do I just give the website my login info and it magically spits out a printout the next day?
Basically yes. Go to their web sight. It will tell you how to download your schedule directly to them. May take a couple of days to get your report. They are very good about calling you if they have any questions or issues with your report
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