Well I think that you need to take work rules and pay rates into consideration at the same time. NWA work rules and pay rates gave me a $1,000 higher gross pay check for the first 2 years under the Delta work rules and higher pay rates. I had to work or be away from home 34 more days the first year and 37 more days the second year to make the same pay check. My hours were exactly the same or within 10 - 20 hours per year. Work rules can be huge in terms of increasing pay. What would my paycheck have been had I worked 34 more days at NWA??? Plus we got time and a half for anything over 80 hours. Not saying that we had a better contract at all, just that we had a few good work rules that improved quality of life. In general, it seems that most everyone focuses on pay rates here, but I'm here to tell you that for me personally time away from home ranks right up there with pay rates. My slogan: MAX pay for MIN time away. However, there have been a lot of changes to deal with the main one being the god awful FAR 117. What a mess that is. It seems to me a few good work rules would increase the check and may not be so hard for the company to swallow. Who knows??

 

Not the same neighborhood, but the same tennis group. And they don't post their incomes so they're either doing really well based on the cars, houses, schools, vacations they take or they're deeply in debt. Based on some of the cases I'm familiar with that they've won I'm going with the former. One's a college classmate who doesn't brag about it, but is comfortable enough to share with me some particulars.

 

(But, truth be told... I want one!!! )

 

Scheduling gurus, I have a question:

I'm on reserve. I'm on a GS on my days off. I was on call Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. They have already given me PB days, Tuesday and Wednesday, part of Thursday. Friday is a golden day.

My trip is supposed to get into ATL tonight. JFK is a mess. My GS trip ends in a DH. My duty day has run out and I'm trying to decide whether to extend or call it quits and go to the hotel.

If I call it a day, go to the hotel and DH tomorrow, what happens with my GS? Am I screwing myself? DALPA is closed, so I can't ask them.

Anyone have a remote idea as to the ramifications of extending versus calling it quits on a GS on reserve?

 

The only thing I know is that a DH only day on GS is only worth the actual block of the DH, not the 5:15 ADG that a normal duty day would bring.

 

Bingo. I decided to go to the hotel. I'll call Curtis tomorrow. JFK is a mess and getting worse.

 

My neighbor, and when I saw neighbor I mean next door, bought their home for $660K, it was listed for $700K. 6200 sq ft. Retired in 2008, making $495K. I saw total compensation of $790K at one point.




All I had to do was go to zillow, see the address of the house (different neighborhood cuz I'm still stuck with the middle class scum) but we share a fence, look up the address on the county tax assessor, get the name and do 1 google search of the name and the word compensation. He's in the oil industry.

Freaking scary. But all of these are SEC docs I guess.

 

Do you stalk creepy old dudes?

Hey Carl, let's get out of FTB's basement.

 

Evidently I do.

And I'm good at it. Scambo. Whose phone number is 867-5309.

 

Oh yeah. I've got you now Carl Spackler.