Cause I can't help it, sometimes I just like to point out hypocrisy. And I said don't bother to reply, because I figure it will all be a bunch of garbage about drinking koolaid. Maybe it helps that I have seen the other side - my wife and I non-reving back with two kids under three, sitting through a two+ hour delay because the crew that brought the flight in (first flight of the day for them, one hour leg) decided they needed a meal, left the concourse to go through security, went off airport to get a meal at a chi-chi's, then came back to operate the leg back over two hours late...that was a fun day...)

Maybe I would like to think that someone might read it and think...hmmmm...But that being said, the last thing I want to do is ruin everyone's fun, and it is a great thread, so carry on. I will go post this stuff on the "Greedy airline executives that won't pay me more money" thread.

 

Our contract provides us QOL and pay protections. When pilots start bending the contract to "help" out scheduling they are really doing so because scheduling/management screwed up. I know you are probably unfamiliar with scheduling but you will grow accustomed to hating them if you ever work for an airline. Reassignments into your day off when you have plans with your family, asking for "favors" when you know you will never get one in return, and certain airlines breaking the contract outright and just telling you to grieve it later. Scheduling and airline management have never and will never treat their employees better than a piece of machinery.

Doing favors for scheduling outside of a contract will in return only weaken the pilots negotiating ability and managements view on the required # of pilots. I know its hard to believe but when you are worked 90 hrs a month, reassigned into days off, flat out lied to by scheduling, and then asked to do them a favor.... you want to tell them to pack sand. The new hires usually have the gung-ho "yaaaay airline" attitude for about 2-6 months until they realize they are only hurting themselves. so you will get the kool aid comments just like those new hires do. Your attitude isn't revolutionary and is expected from a newhire or industry outsider who doesnt know what working for an airline is like. You will learn one day.

PS: the left seat 152 heavy thing is a tell tale sign of an FNG

 

PS: the left seat 152 heavy thing is a tell tale sign of an FNG

What is a FNG?

 

he has me pegged as a "forking new guy" based on the garbage I put in my screen name to try to be funny (I admit, it is weak). The assumption is that I must not be in the airline industry, don't know anything about reserve windows or high speeds, much less complicated airline stuff like exemption 3585 - who really understands that?)

 

Dude if I had power I would DELETE YOU!!!!! You are ruining a perfectly good thread!!!! You are like the guy that says "I don't get it" at the end of a perfectly good joke.....errrrrrr.....please take your 152 and maintain VFR because evidently Class A airspace is toooo high for your britches!!!! Good day....switch freq

 

I remember when I worked for Skyway Enterprises out of KISM, an F.O. told me this story.

He was flying with an a-hole captain that had to take a dump. Since the only thing we flew were Shorts 360 with cargo Configuration and NO LAV, the guy decides to go in a bucket.

Well the F.O. being the great guy that he is, runs into some heavy, heavy, turbulence. (Pilot Induced) This Captain has crap all on his uniform, the insides of the plane and the parts they were delivering.

The guy was so ashamed at what happened he quit, the F.O. got a better gig elsewhere and the plane was unusable for a month. When the finally did put it back in service, it still had an "aroma".

Moral of the story: don't be an a- hole captain!!