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On 4/26/2003 11:43:41 PM AAStew wrote:
TWAnr
It is kind of morbid, but everyone does it who is at the bottom of the seniority list. I think in the past 10 years less than 200 f/a''s have retired, so the only way to gain more seniority was for someone to die. It is kind of a joke between us. Remember, we had the world''s oldest living stewardess more or less forced into retirement 2 years ago, she was 74.
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actually, it was not meant to be a ha-ha type of hilarious, and you do have to consider the deaths in the final headcount...unless they''re still elible to cast in a YES vote, then the APFA will demand that their names not be taken out of the headcount. You''ll never know when you may need those 10-20 "dead" votes in crunch time.
now, do we have to take into account the Mostly Dead and the Nearly Dead? y''know the ones, and I just met one last week...I asked her what she thought of the TA voting and her reply was "what TA vote? are they changing our contract?" she then pulls out her APFA contract from her totebag. I nearly fell when I saw that she was carrying the OLD blue contract (pre-2001 version). forgiveable? maybe, considering she may have been flying PT the past 25 years...