Rampers Cheating The Company?

[US1YFARE]

yes, but isn't there a difference between using it at work (to hydrate, etc.) and taking it home and handing it out to your wife's friends? If I start handing out pens and paper to my friends when they come over, I guess I should be fired and I need a different group of friends.

Everyone breaks the speed limit, but that is not an excuse when you get pulled over--i've tried it and it doesn't work.

 

[MrAeroMan]

I agree with you PB. I was just pointing out that the F/A weren't the only one's "stocking" their personal "minibar. It does happen everywhere and honestly I don't think the company would care if a ramper or f/a or any employee had a bottle of water. Taking a case home is another thing and not something anyone should condone. You buy 4 cases of water a month and pay for it. Why should it be any different for anyone else. I think we're on the same page here.....AGAIN!!??

 

[FWAAA]

I think everyone should drink bottled water, and regardless, our crews have to drink plenty of bottled water on the airplane to survive and hydrate everyday flying 13 hour duty days. No one should drink the galley water from the taps as they are full of mold and algie. Same goes for the ground crews. Or, do you think ramp agents should sweat and pass out in 90 degree weather loading bags drinking NOTHING? I have been on the a/c many times in scorching heat and toss a water bottles to the ramp agents on the tarmac. Many times.

[post="310795"][/post]​

Yet you keep serving that moldy water to your customers. :down:

 

[DCaf]

I think everyone should drink bottled water, and regardless, our crews have to drink plenty of bottled water on the airplane to survive and hydrate everyday flying 13 hour duty days. No one should drink the galley water from the taps as they are full of mold and algie. Same goes for the ground crews. Or, do you think ramp agents should sweat and pass out in 90 degree weather loading bags drinking NOTHING? I have been on the a/c many times in scorching heat and toss a water bottles to the ramp agents on the tarmac. Many times.

[post="310795"][/post]​

You're right PITbull, but employees should bring their own water to work.

 

[NeedForSpeed]

What I object to is some on here immediately jump to defend without knowing the facts. ALL of the rampers are NOT boy scouts or Angels. To blindly defend one group by attacking another is wrong! PERIOD

Then we get the "It's in the contract" lecture like the CBA was written By God Almighty Hisself and carved into stone tablets to be genuflected in front of on the way to clocking in and out!

I grew up around and with guys who worked for Bethlehem Steel and to a man they used to brag about sleeping on the job, The places where you could sleep, How to hide from the foreman. The interesting thing here is that those who bragged the most about what they did were also the ones who screamed & Squealed the loudest that the "Company is Screwing us" mantra when Beth Steel hit the skids big time. I can not help but notice the bleating here and wonder if the same is true.

[post="310844"][/post]​

Can you say 700????? ...........Nice touch piney..

 

[jack mama]

I've heard this was going on for years...and judging from 700's defense and deflection its probably true.

Don't managers get beat up by the union mafia, or car windows get smashed in for this in PHL employee lot for reporting such information???

What about sunday afternoons during Eagles games???

 

[Justaramper]

First of all if it happens it is wrong.

Second I really doubt it since you have to have a live body to work a flight, especially if you have a gate change, you have to take a bus to the employee parking lot then leave. In CLT several years back some rampers were leaving early, a flight came to their gate and there was no one to work it, they were terminated, got their jobs back but placed on final warnings.

Third, this is not the place to air it if it happens.

Fourth is that like all the waters and sodas the F/As take with them on the overnight?

[post="310521"][/post]​

There were many factors in the CLT 1999 Ramp debacle, as it was a 20 minute "early out" and a tag on/off from the dayshift to nightshift. No sudden flight, as there was one on the gate and adequate help for the workload.

It's just that a manager overheard a radio conversation between leads and it all got blownup from there.

Agents all were back to work after a 5 day termination and recieved discipline for there actions. But, the Station Mgr earned himself a ticket out also {Pelc}, as he was transfered the day they got there jobs back.

This thread is really not a good one, as why leave work for a "crash pad", when you can actually stay at work and use the breakrooms in the same fashion...?

Leave documented times via a door/bus/gate for the company to use against you...?

Employees who do this, usually are "short time" and get terminated. :down:

Just don't forget the other 98% who are very honest and give 100% day in and day out.

 

[whatkindoffreshhell]

Goofy thread.

You cannot be a 'little bit' pregnant. Either you are or you are not.

Same with stealing. Doesn't matter if everyone else is doing it.

Honor and dignity.

Hey, what did youse guys drink before they started bottling water?

 

[muircross]

Kool-Aid, Just like HP!

 

[PITbull]

You're right PITbull, but employees should bring their own water to work.

[post="310855"][/post]​

That's insanity!

Who the hell is going to pack water for 4 days worth of flying?

 

[DCaf]

That's insanity!

Who the hell is going to pack water for 4 days worth of flying?

[post="310896"][/post]​

Great question. What's the answer? Does the company permit this practice or not?

 

[A320 Driver]

For Pete's sake...you don't take company stock off the property, you don't sleep on the job and you don't leave without clocking out. How complicated and ridiculous are we going to make this??? You may can relate to it but you damn sure shouldn't defend it.

Get real


A320 Driver :angry:

 

[tahitigirl]

The company has never said we could not consume water, soda or snacks on the plane. I think the problem comes in when such items are removed from the aircraft (inflight shopping).

 

[usairmech41]

So what....the company steals from the employees, the employees steal from the company....

At one point in time we all took something we shouldnt have, whether it was an item or company time. We all have this funny little imaginary line we draw, and anything beyond it is wrong. The only difference between all of us is how far out that line is....we are all guilty.....

 

[Light Years]

Yet you keep serving that moldy water to your customers. :down:

[post="310846"][/post]​

Please tell us where and when and how recently galley water was served on a flight? :blink:

F/As are permitted to eat and drink whatever they please (obviously not alcohol, duh) on the aircraft. In fact they are advised to drink several bottles of water a day.