TUCKnTRUCK
That guy
Little story i heard...
Certain crewmember, named Crewman A, finishes training, IOE and his line check. During the IOE section of training a family member passes away. Crewman A makes about 5 unanswered phone calls to crew planning, followed up with an email detailing the need to go the the service the following weekend. Crew planning makes no effort in the least to respond to either phone calls or email. After about 5 days of "nothing" from the company, Crewman A calls scheduling to see if anything is going on, to make sure nothing is scheduled for the days of the service. One of the new scheulers, name unknown, says,"No, there are no modifications to your schedule." So nothing untill the following week, (6 days away) Crewman A goes to service, then home to family, where there is no Cell reception. Sometime on that sunday, crew planning places Crewman A on reserve for monday-saturday. They fail to call, email or by any means notify Creman A. Crewman A uses a landline to check his messages on tuesday evening before heading to his house, and discovers a long list of phone calls from scheduling. The first one went something like this. " Hi, this is ***** from scheduling, we are showing you not notified for your reserve on tuesday, but we need you at the airport. We also show you not notified for the entire week. call us back." By the time Crewman A gets to the end of the voicemails, he has now learned that he is being tagged with 2 missed trips, for which he was never notified. So he calls scheduling back. Gets transfered to chief pilot. CP folds over to company will, and places all blame on Crewman A. Apparently, the death of family member is such an inconvienience to scheduling, that we should all tell family not to die, or, scheduling will get upset. Turns out, according to CP, it is not schedulings job to notify US of changes, but rather, we must call at least 1, maybe 2-5 times a day to see if there have been any changes to our schedule. If a crewman does not notify themselfs, then they may be fired for not doing schedulings job for them. Says pilot must get to base to cover trip next morning, and they WILL NOT be listing him on flts to get there. He is at fault for missed trips. We should also mention that Crewman A has not been able to log onto crewtrack, and gave up calling the person who would fix it because for a week straight they never answered their phone.
When CP is presented with original email, crewweb "notes" and voicemails stating he was not notified, agree's to not "take action" like he is doing crewman A a favor.
And we don't need ALPA.
Your CP is supposed to go to bat for you in said situation. It is UTTER BS that the crewmember in that situation should even get a PHONE CALL about it. Without protection, even if you CYA here, they can toss you under the bus. If the scheduler does not NOTE in crew track that you called, it may as well have not happened... good luck getting the tapes.
Crewman A had Employment attourneys ready to go if they had left even a disparaging remark on his file, and may consider takeing action otherwise.
Crewman A also feels at this point, that if he hears of a "no voter" or somebody encouraging people not to vote.. the effective and prescribed cure is 2x4, 2x4 being the choice dose of reality medication today.
Certain crewmember, named Crewman A, finishes training, IOE and his line check. During the IOE section of training a family member passes away. Crewman A makes about 5 unanswered phone calls to crew planning, followed up with an email detailing the need to go the the service the following weekend. Crew planning makes no effort in the least to respond to either phone calls or email. After about 5 days of "nothing" from the company, Crewman A calls scheduling to see if anything is going on, to make sure nothing is scheduled for the days of the service. One of the new scheulers, name unknown, says,"No, there are no modifications to your schedule." So nothing untill the following week, (6 days away) Crewman A goes to service, then home to family, where there is no Cell reception. Sometime on that sunday, crew planning places Crewman A on reserve for monday-saturday. They fail to call, email or by any means notify Creman A. Crewman A uses a landline to check his messages on tuesday evening before heading to his house, and discovers a long list of phone calls from scheduling. The first one went something like this. " Hi, this is ***** from scheduling, we are showing you not notified for your reserve on tuesday, but we need you at the airport. We also show you not notified for the entire week. call us back." By the time Crewman A gets to the end of the voicemails, he has now learned that he is being tagged with 2 missed trips, for which he was never notified. So he calls scheduling back. Gets transfered to chief pilot. CP folds over to company will, and places all blame on Crewman A. Apparently, the death of family member is such an inconvienience to scheduling, that we should all tell family not to die, or, scheduling will get upset. Turns out, according to CP, it is not schedulings job to notify US of changes, but rather, we must call at least 1, maybe 2-5 times a day to see if there have been any changes to our schedule. If a crewman does not notify themselfs, then they may be fired for not doing schedulings job for them. Says pilot must get to base to cover trip next morning, and they WILL NOT be listing him on flts to get there. He is at fault for missed trips. We should also mention that Crewman A has not been able to log onto crewtrack, and gave up calling the person who would fix it because for a week straight they never answered their phone.
When CP is presented with original email, crewweb "notes" and voicemails stating he was not notified, agree's to not "take action" like he is doing crewman A a favor.
And we don't need ALPA.
Your CP is supposed to go to bat for you in said situation. It is UTTER BS that the crewmember in that situation should even get a PHONE CALL about it. Without protection, even if you CYA here, they can toss you under the bus. If the scheduler does not NOTE in crew track that you called, it may as well have not happened... good luck getting the tapes.
Crewman A had Employment attourneys ready to go if they had left even a disparaging remark on his file, and may consider takeing action otherwise.
Crewman A also feels at this point, that if he hears of a "no voter" or somebody encouraging people not to vote.. the effective and prescribed cure is 2x4, 2x4 being the choice dose of reality medication today.
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