Its your job. If you are too junior or too stupid, then you work. Its what you agreed and signed up for.
Face it , if flight attendants made 1000 dollars and hour. The same people would be pissed and complain and calll in sick. Then say the reason they do not do there job sit on there lazy butt or call in regularly is because of morale, or the management doesnt respect me.
What are the factors? What are the changes? I am sure they would love to hear them. Since they are so easy and obvious, please share with us.
Wow thats amazing, and no one noticed it when vaction bids came out last April? Love to know what the numbers are, and the exact percentage is. Can you tell us that?
Mike,
There are always going to be the bitter people around whether we do get paid good money or not. I will give you that. Just as there will always be the people around who dislike the ones they work with and think they are smarter than them as well.
The only thing we can all do while at work is to do what we are supposed to, treat people the way we would like to be treated, and lead by example. We aren't going to change people's attitudes by being abrasive.
The decrease in vacation slots available was addressed in a few APFA hotlines and ,as Nancy has stated in a previous post, APFA filed a grievance about it.
You wanted me to give exampled of what the company can do to cut down on sick calls:
The planner who builds the lines can make sure that the pain is shared and that one line doesn't contain ALL of the December holidays.
If someone works Christmas then why do they have to work Christmas Eve and New Years Eve as well?
I understand that we are an airline and we operate 24/7/365. Let them figure out how to mix the lines so that if you do a Christmas Eve Turn you are off Chrismtas. If you Do a trip over Christmas Eve that it returns early for Christmas Day. If you work Christmas than another line will have to work New Years Eve.
I don't think it is too much to ask for. Right now it seems as though you get really good lines for senior people and the rest is a bunch of mish mosh garbage thrown together with no rhyme and reason other than to make people sick.
The JFK base manager only makes changes to the bid sheet that benefit senior people. I have never received any emails about how he is working to cut down on the 4:57 minute sit times for the poor junior turds who get bid denied to fly them and the poor reserves who have to fly them because those are the only things guaranteed to be in open time.
Another thing is that you can't just say "it's your job" about everything and not look to change something. A friend of mine who has been flying 35 years thinks people serving reserve who want changes to reserve should just shut up because when she served they didn't have cell phones. If there is a way to make something more palatable, within the realm of still getting the job done, I don't think there should be any reason why we shouldn't explore the possibilities. Sometimes you just need to think outside the box a little bit.