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[flybynite]

Pour? Cup and can, Shuttle-style all the way.

Ditto!!

 

[Jetsetter2Ord]

Yes, pour service...on a 40min flight from take off to wheels down..full flight! We do it all the time.

I am sure it wont be long before we start charging for a can of soda...and inflight will implement that every FA wear a change dispenser on their belt...that way they can have quarters for the implemented "pay toilets" ha!

 

[N965VJ]

I would love to see what they would do if they had to fly a domestic 737 trip with 5legs, 14hr duty day and have to do a pour beverage service on every oversold flight on an aircraft with no running APU!

Heh, they’d tell you about 8 legs a day on the 9 and PIT-PHL breakfasts.

 

[EMBFA]

They love to moan about that, forgetting that at the time all the other airlines were doing the same thing, only they were doing it on DC10s instead of 9s. Then they talk about how fancy they used to be, handing people a plastic sippy cup of wine as they boarded for Scanton.

 

[PHLfa88]

Agree ABSOLUTELY 1000% with all of the last posts. I just don't understand the big deal. I have been juniored MANY a time over and have had a few try to take over. I was "E" on the A330 and the CSD started writing out the breaks. Ummm I said as CSD you can have first break but I shall make the breaks. You wanna run the service? FLY "E". Same with the "B" position in back of both the 767 and A330.

For Your Infomation..The CSD DOES Make The Break Schedule..Not The "E"..Look At Your Manual! And The CSD RUNS The Service..Not The "E" Look At Your Manual! 🙄

 

[PHLfa88]

Or you know what else I hate...You've worked all day and you have a deadhead home and then the working crew comes to you, puts you on the spot and asks you to work the leg for them because they want to go home. I understand wanting to go home etc but I'm just as tired as you, I don't know you so please don't make me feel uncomfortable because I just want to deadhead home.

They do this all the time and I hate it!!

If You Don't Want To Work For Someone JUST SAY NO! Simple As That!First Of All I Want Not EVER..EVER.. Put Someone In A Bad Position! If YOu Say No..End Of Discussion! :unsure:

 

[Travelpro72]

For Your Infomation..The CSD DOES Make The Break Schedule..Not The "E"..Look At Your Manual! And The CSD RUNS The Service..Not The "E" Look At Your Manual! 🙄

Yeah? and as soon as a CSD has issues with how my service is pumped out (well the old way) the oven mits would come off and I'd say, "have at it Darlin". I've asked a few on the 767 while flying "D" if they'd like to switch. Don't tick me off or your platin' honey.

 

[Elevation]

Not everyone, it's just a select few who have obviously never had any other job and probably live with a half-dozen cats. Get a life...

Ah yes, the ubiquitous cat rancher, what would airlines be without there deft social graces and there distain for the male homo erectus.

 

[4merresrat]

If You Don't Want To Work For Someone JUST SAY NO! Simple As That!First Of All I Want Not EVER..EVER.. Put Someone In A Bad Position! If YOu Say No..End Of Discussion! :unsure:

Um but then they wouldn't have anything to whine about, right?

 

[iwantout]

I hear ya. I tell them with a completely straight face that I shivved an old lady in the parking lot. How the F do you think I got it? Scheduling called me. "What time did they call you for this?" Um, I don't know, I don't remember. Why? This is all discussed in the usually overdramatic and disorganized briefing... girls, it's a 767 to Spain, is this really this big of a deal to you?

I have no problem telling someone I won't switch with them or work their flight home. If it works for me, fine, but otherwise, why should I? If I marched up to ones of those crones and demanded they swop VCE and take my SNN trip because my friend is on it, they'd laugh at me. And they act all agitated with you as if you are being terribly rude and selfish by keeping your Athens trip instead of giving it to their friend. You can sneer at me all you want over your multicolored glasses on a chain all the way across the pond, it doesn't bother me one bit.

"Have you flown this plane before? Are you familiar with this aircraft?" No, a-hole, never seen it in my life. Is it the one with the swoosh and the flag on the tail? "Oh, looks like we have someone new!" Really? Who? Last time I checked we don't have anyone new, but we're talking about someone who is wearing a 20 year old striped shirt and is pulling what appears to be the first ever Travelpro, so their idea of new may be different than ours. I don't know about anyone else, but I mastered trash collection and pouring Diet Coke the first day- it's not very difficult, and I can even do it while smiling and engaging the customers. Stop making a meal service a bigger happening than it needs to be.

People get really nasty when you won't work for them. I was three sheets to the wind after a long post-recurrent Chili's session one time, and this chick was enraged that I wouldn't work for her. "Lady, I'm drunk! Move on!" It puts people in an uncomfortable position, and it's just rude. It's one thing to ask politely if anyone might be interested in working it, it's another to stand there and question why you won't. And, hello, offer money, I'm working for the company for free, why should I work for free for you?

And yes, if you put me in the CSD or Purser position you will follow my lead, not try to be the boss from the C-me-do-nothing position. If I'm in the galley, I will organize it the way I like and all required service, including juice and water, will be performed. I'm sorry that you are lazy/arthritic/claim no one does that/9 hours isn't enough time/can't fit down the aisle/think the customers are 'spoiled' etc.

If we do merge with someone hopefully these small town gals will realize that "doing international" isn't that big a deal at any seniority, and that they can't all try to be the boss or be lazy on a large crew.

I would love to meet you. You sound like my kind of person.

 

[etops1]

if we had a csd qualified position we would not have these issues.

 

[iwantout]

None of those old hags will even read this as none of them know how to use a computer. They are so marketable in the real world with their job skills and winning attitudes.

 

[PHLfa88]

Um but then they wouldn't have anything to whine about, right?

They Should Be On Here With the Rest Of The WHINERS!!

 

[PHX-F/A]

They Should Be On Here With the Rest Of The WHINERS!!

Whining yes...valid too. Out west our lazy a-- people usually drop to 70, then trade to 40 and try and figure out how to get out of the rest of their schedule. Those are probably the same people that were blowing slides. Thank them for the Monitor and Challenge door procedures.

 

[4merresrat]

Whining yes...valid too. Out west our lazy a-- people usually drop to 70, then trade to 40 and try and figure out how to get out of the rest of their schedule. Those are probably the same people that were blowing slides. Thank them for the Monitor and Challenge door procedures.

Point is that every job has good and bad. . . if the worst they have to complain about is that someone is asking (key word here) to work for them then IMO they have it pretty good. . . A request, not a demand. Easy to politely decline right?