I just received an HI6 message saying my account is under surveillance because I had over 5000 FOS transactions in January. What is a FOS transaction? Could it be everytime we hit enter from our personal mode? If so I am guilty. I read my messages that way and search for open trips in Hiboard and Open times at least 2 or 3 times a day if I am home! During bid closing time, almost constantly!
Doesn't AA have anything else they could be directing their time and money to?
Hold onto your hats. This is serious stuff.
The Gestapo is alive and well and more changes are coming down the pike. They sent out an info mail to the union and in it they are basically threatening to fire people going into other people's personal modes.
The person behind all this drama is an IDF flight attendant who wanted to abolish trip trade services manipulation of open time and hiboard and those who are parking trips for their clients to go on make up.
This person and the company are monitoring open time, fos usage, and makeup.
What is really getting me steamed is that in the company's letter, that is shortly to reach a mailbox in ops near you, they are saying they will be monitoring trip trade services practices, they will audit them to make sure all of their clients are listed and reported, and they will be monitoring people with excessive fos usage to make sure they aren't running illegal services.
In a nutshell: The guy who allegedly wants to shut down the services is, in fact, making them stronger. He will take away the ability of the FAs who trade amongst each other and for each other the ability to do their own schedules. The company is going along with it to appease him and because it also puts more money in their pup accounts because they profit from trade services by selling them the license and charging them a percentage of their volume. Just when you thought it was bad enough now this MF comes along and makes it hell for the average FA to even get their hands on anything by using their friends schedules to borrow trips for trades.
The ironic thing is that this guy who runs his own PRIVATE trip trade board has the gall to argue that his board is NOT a service because it is free and anyone can join. I call BS because his board is private on yahoo on an approval only membership, operates outside of an American Airlines site listing AA employee numbers and AA sequences, and can only be accessed through the internet. If we're all being shut down than he needs to be as well. There are a few other boards in existence whose administrators have banded with this guy on his quest whose boards also need to be shut down. They are not as troublesome as this jerk though.
This is from the last paragraph of the letter that you will soon receive:
"In order to protect the integrity of company information, your schedule, and comply with Company Information Systems policy, never share your SABRE or Jetnet password with anyone. If an employee is found in violation of this policy, the employee will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination."
