Systemwide CR1

[Wretched Wrench]

I have been here a very long time, worked at many cities and years of nights.............there has been sleeping before but now days it has been raised to an art form or an accepted expectation

I started at AA in the CR Smith days, and there was a lot of sleeping. There still is. I'm not sure I really see any more now, although I am not a permanent midnight person. Then, as now, some individuals took it farther than others. Some nod off while sitting, and some build a nest, make a bed, or coop up in a vehicle. Even management. I can remember at least one incident in the sixties where a ramp manager had difficulty waking up a terminal mtc supervisor who was asleep, supine on a bench in the locker room. There appeared to be no repercussions, as the behavior was oft repeated. In a recent incident, an AA employee was reported to be sleeping in an AA vehicle on non-AA airport property. AA management grabbed a steward to bust the offender. They were shocked, shocked! to discover the sleeper was a supv. It was kept very quiet.

On the other hand, to keep the anecdotal recollection fair and balanced, one particular midnight general foreman did say that he would fire anyone caught sleeping AND his supervisor. That was late sixties or early seventies.


I do not mean to say it is right or wrong, or that anyone is entitled to sleep. But, it has been going on for quite a while, and sometimes management leads by example. I would suggest that AA overreacted in this incident. We won't know how serious they are until another management sleeper is busted.

 

[Bob Owens]

I do not mean to say it is right or wrong, or that anyone is entitled to sleep. But, it has been going on for quite a while, and sometimes management leads by example. I would suggest that AA overreacted in this incident. We won't know how serious they are until another management sleeper is busted.

Well put WW. It seeems a few J O s that lurk here keep trying to spin this as if we were saying that we have a right to sleep, which we werent, we were simply saying that if management allows it for 40 years then suddenly turns around and fires people for it thats unreasonable.