I always feel bad when I see someone doing something stupid and is so stubborn that he keeps trying to make the stupid act seem correct. I guess my wife would accuse me of doing that whenever I disagree with her. But after looking at Xelectro's posts I must posit this:does Xelectro have severe CRM problems that need to be addressed or is he suffering from cognitive problems? First he names a pilot by name, one who is not management, just a regular pilot, and publicly defames him. Second, when it is pointed out how unprofessional he is being, he expands on his statement by trying to tell us all why this person did not meet his standards. He totally failed to understand that his being unprofessional cannot be corrected by being more unprofessional. Third, he does not seem to understand basic english even though english appears to be his first language. He says, there are "acceptions". Then he says, "all over sudden runway came insight." Not being a good speller myself I have always gone with the position that any intelligent person should be able to figure out more than one way to spell a word. His statements however, seem to indicate a failure to understand the meaning of things he reads. Hopefully, Xelectro simply failed to adhere to the 3 beer limit for posting. As that famous philosopher Rodney King said, "Can't we all just get along?"

 

As an outsider looking in

Putting someone's actual name on social media like that? I wouldn't do it and risk a possible lawsuit.
I am reading this thread and I find it hard to believe any airline would fire a pilot trying to use FMLA or Military leave.

 

It's blowjet, so don't worry about it.

 

BS was a good guy when I was there. We were on the line at the same time.

RB - slightly different story. Good guy to fly with and entertaining.

His orals were considerably long (4 hours) and he never even swallowed.

Serious note about him. He was pro military and proud of his background. Very knowledgeable about the jet and could fly his ass off.

Did he yell and swear? you bet yer sweet ass he did. He was delicate with nobody and nobody wanted him for the type ride. You know the jet when it's over though and much is learned during the meeting.

Neither one of these guys are even close to racist, for the record. not that i saw anyhow. RB does, however, have a rather large chip that sits on his shoulder. It's gotta be even bigger now that he's DO and not running the sims anymore.

 

I can tell you that I was told by the CP at the time, two weeks after we had our second child, to come back off of FMLA or I would be fired. I was scheduled for my recurrent in my grace month. And they said they were not going to pay for me to come in and requal because I would go NQ if I missed recurrent. Being that we had a newborn and my wife is self employed I could risk losing my insurance so I did. I filed a complaint with the Dept of labor but they said they couldn't really do anything because I didn't lose pay or get fired. So yes, they will screw with your FMLA for sure!

 

I'm sorry to hear this. I'm really afraid to find out if a family member became terminally sick.
I thought you were allowed 12 weeks of unpaid leave per law for the birth of a child?

 

This thread should be renamed The Raw Deal. It is go jet so maybe Hotdog down the hallway raw deal?Sounds like you need to put some screws to these scumbags. How about consulting an attorney? Is it too late?
The only response to intimidation is to push back..Hard! These little sandy vaginas will cower into a corner once pressed with a letter from an attorney. They will soon forget your name after that in fear of legal retaliation.
Im hoping some of you all will grow a pair and take em to the cleaners while airing these practices in the media. Unless you like to feel like a battered wife.
Standing up for yourself and your fellow crew members is a lot more impressive than coming on here and complaining. They (the company) has taken a bag of coarse sand and put it up your a$s while giving you the raw deal.
Im guessing there was no pillow talk to follow?

 

I did talk to an attorney when this happened. After talking to me she told me that I def had a case. But that she wasn't aware of any prior cases of putting a value on bonding time. And since I didn't lose my job nor pay from the deal that she could not even guess at what kind of award it would be. It could be anywhere from nothing but to tell the company to cease and desist, or to give me my time off now with no money, or a huge award. But because of the uncertainty she would have to charge hourly as opposed to taking a percentage of the winnings. And she estimated that all in all it would run about $30k. And she asked it it was worth a $30k bet? I didn't have an extra $30k laying around and certainly wasn't going to go take out a loan or anything so I just left it at the complaint with the Dept of Labor.

 

You are. And I had my paperwork filled out for 60 days. That was the most I could afford to take off so I knew it wouldn't be more than that. They didn't care!

 

Im glad you did take it that far. unfortunately management knows this and your hands are tied. Remember, Karma is a scorn ***** and that ****1y co will soon go under because of their current practices. Many will take pleasure in that abysmal failure of a so called airline.
Do your part, spread the word and make sure they get no-one to come work for them.