Corporate Security Raids LGA Locker Room

[TIME FOR CHANGE]

Heard from a reliable source eight mechanics were caught sleeping and walked out by Corporate.
Word has it someone droped a dime as to where and when these guys would be there.
Its bad enough to get screwed by the company but when your fellow co-workers are ratting you out that is just F#$% UP

 

[swdriver]

Heard from a reliable source eight mechanics were caught sleeping and walked out by Corporate.
Word has it someone droped a dime as to where and when these guys would be there.
Its bad enough to get screwed by the company but when your fellow co-workers are ratting you out that is just F#$% UP

If true, they got what they deserved. Sleeping on the job is a no-no.

 

[PRINCESS KIDAGAKASH]

If true, they got what they deserved. Sleeping on the job is a no-no.

You obviously have no clue how line maintenance works on graveyard shift. You do your check cards. Replace or fix what needs to be fixed as quickly as possible. If someone has a heavy plane, you go help them knock it out. When the maintenance is finished for the night, It's shut eye time. It's the only way you can survive on midnights. Those guys in LGA are probably working two or three jobs just to make ends meet so they need that rest. I hope the Rat gets poisoned!

 

[swdriver]

You obviously have no clue how line maintenance works on graveyard shift. You do your check cards. Replace or fix what needs to be fixed as quickly as possible. If someone has a heavy plane, you go help them knock it out. When the maintenance is finished for the night, It's shut eye time. It's the only way you can survive on midnights. Those guys in LGA are probably working two or three jobs just to make ends meet so they need that rest. I hope the Rat gets poisoned!

So you are saying it is in their contact that when the work is finished, the rest of the time left on the shift can be spent sleeping whlile on the clock. Amazing, I would like a job like that.

 

[Hopeful]

So you are saying it is in their contact that when the work is finished, the rest of the time left on the shift can be spent sleeping whlile on the clock. Amazing, I would like a job like that.

And I'm sure no pilot has ever shut his or her eyes on a lengthy flight!

 

[IORFA]

So you are saying it is in their contact that when the work is finished, the rest of the time left on the shift can be spent sleeping whlile on the clock. Amazing, I would like a job like that.

So, you don't get paid to deadhead? What about flights with relief crews? Should the pilot/s on break be off the clock? Just curious.

 

[nbmcg01]

You can have mine!! Midnights gets old real fast unless you are the D&D type.

When I taught newhire f/as I always said there were 4 things (S's) that could get your fired on an airplane.
1. Sipping 2. Smoking 3. Stealing 4.SLEEPING (unless you are really fast and when caught look up and say
"Oh, I didn't know we were forbidden to pray these days"...If you're that "good", have at it.

Pilots and f/as have crew rest built into contractual language on certain Intn. flights. But they would certainly be at job risk if they
got caught sleeping on a domestic flight or shorter Intn. flight. I flew all nighters for a good portion of my career and there were times that it was very difficult not to do the head bob. There were many world problems solved on those flights.

As for turning someone in.... It is more "appropriate" to go to your union steward or local rep and handle it through professional standards.

 

[fliboi78]

I got in tonight from SJO and was told that a lot of the A300's are canceled. Then when I got home someone said that the mechanics are doing a "slow down". Is this going on?

 

[BigBangTheory]

I got in tonight from SJO and was told that a lot of the A300's are canceled. Then when I got home someone said that the mechanics are doing a "slow down". Is this going on?

A mechanic at JFK told me that they're taking their sweet time fixing a/c. If a mx issue comes up at the gate and its going to take 1-2 hours to fix...

They're cancelling flights and taking the a/c out of service.

I think f/a's should just sit on their js for the entire flight and only respond to emergencies.

FURP

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

A mechanic at JFK told me that they're taking their sweet time fixing a/c. If a mx issue comes up at the gate and its going to take 1-2 hours to fix...

They're cancelling flights and taking the a/c out of service.

I think f/a's should just sit on their js for the entire flight and only respond to emergencies.

FURP

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As far as the JFK/A-300 thing goes(and that would be seperate/not apply to AMT's in LGA), I believe what you were told ...B B T ...is correctly refered to as the Legitimate/Legal action as....."WORK to RULE" !!!!!!!!!!!

IT about DAM time someone/somewhere grew a "SACK", and it DEFINITELY is NO surprise that it originated in JFK

 

[Bob Owens]

Heard from a reliable source eight mechanics were caught sleeping and walked out by Corporate.
Word has it someone droped a dime as to where and when these guys would be there.
Its bad enough to get screwed by the company but when your fellow co-workers are ratting you out that is just F#$% UP

Dont fall for that old trick. Management always claims that "it was one of your own" that contacted corporate security. LGA has been there for 70 years and for 70 years the locker room has been a place where mechanics go after completing their work. Management has always been well aware of that because thats where they went before they became managers. There was never any real need to have corporate security involved, all they had to do was have a manager walk up there and turn on the lights. However they dont want the guys to have what they call a "job action"(why rush to get done if you dont get any down time?) so they blame it on a mysterious "anonymous letter". Dont kid yourself,the letter came from management and went to management.

 

[Bob Owens]

So, you don't get paid to deadhead? What about flights with relief crews? Should the pilot/s on break be off the clock? Just curious.

HOPEFUL And I'm sure no pilot has ever shut his or her eyes on a lengthy flight!

Looks like that was enough to shut him up.

Over the last 28 years in this industry I've worked for many airlines and much of that on night shift and I know for a fact that once the work is done people working nights will try to get a little shut eye. Its not a union thing either, when I worked at New York Air we had a common break room with operations and they would wake us up in the morning for the kickoffs-no union there. When I worked at Airborne Express same thing, no union there, and at AA I've even had to wake management up to tell them about something.

Working through the night every once and a while is no big deal but when you are scheduled to work nights 5 days a week the body goes into a continual state of jetlag. If AA wants no sleeping at night they will not get their airplanes, its as simple as that. The guys will write the crap out of them and then go home in the morning because they are exhausted.

 

[LGA Fleet Service]

Its bad enough to get screwed by the company but when your fellow co-workers are ratting you out that is just F#$% UP

Come on, how long have you worked here? There is always someone ratting someone out here,it's almost SOP...
Someone has a better racket?, don't make your own,blow up theirs...

I do have to say though, snoozing in the lockers is pretty much asking for it,anyone can walk in there.If (In theory) one wanted to catch a few Zzzz's, the parking lot is a much safer bet.

 

[DallasConehead]

I don't know if this occurred in this case, but, making a "nest" has alway been an invitation for trouble.

 

[super80fa]

The graveyard shift is horrible and it doesn't matter how long you have been stuck working it. If these guys had finished all their work and were just giving their bodies some much needed rest, then good for them. And I agree with some previous posters, I highly doubt they were turned in by one of their own.