FDX-PDO Bump
08-29-2008, 01:11 PM
#41
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Cliff
This almost sounds like a threat - people have been fired around here for a lot less.
Management bump or not the individual should at least notify you in advance of their intentions!
08-29-2008, 01:51 PM
#42
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2006
Position: Retired
Posts: 3,717
A couple of years ago we had a a major earthquake on Hawaii Island. Shutdown airports state wide, fair amount of damage etc. Early in the afternoon after the quake I get a phone call. I answered it as I wasn't aware the phones were even back up and caller id wasn't working yet. It was crew scheduling wanting to know if I could get to HNL for the afternoon Oakland flight. I told them there had been an earthquake here. They answered that they knew that and that the dh's couldn't get in. I told them the earthquake was about 10 miles from my house and the airport was closed:
"Can't you just drive?"
"No, I live on Hawaii."
<silence>
"Hawaii is an archipeligo."
<silence>
"it's a chain of islands. I live on the southernmost one. Honolulu is on Oahu. I have to fly. The airports are closed."
"oh"
What a weak-ass excuse
. Don't they still have outrigger canoes there? The only question is: would they have allowed the expense of hiring a canoe and a couple of strong Hawaiians to paddle it from Hawaii to Oahu??
08-29-2008, 04:20 PM
#43
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Joined APC: Apr 2006
Position: 767 CA
Posts: 1,876
I've been bumped twice by ACP's in the last couple months. Both were kind enough to email me a couple days in advance to ask if I would like to get bumped. One was a front end deadhead. I approved both, and appreciated the heads up. Luckily the dead head trip was one that I was over the bank. I had another trip that month that was way under the bank that was paying for my other dead heads. I would have probably declined that bump if offered.
08-29-2008, 04:31 PM
#44
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I've been bumped twice by ACP's in the last couple months. Both were kind enough to email me a couple days in advance to ask if I would like to get bumped. One was a front end deadhead. I approved both, and appreciated the heads up. Luckily the dead head trip was one that I was over the bank. I had another trip that month that was way under the bank that was paying for my other dead heads. I would have probably declined that bump if offered.
If it was an ACP - it should be a management bump and you keep the bank.
Any time you are bumped by management or for training the bank stays with you. If they want your trip tell them only if they code the bump properly.
08-29-2008, 06:46 PM
#45
Slainge Var'
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Zeppelin Tail Gunner
Posts: 1,530
So if a commuter got docked 11 days of pay and the non-commuter had to fly the trip on draft or on his paid reserve period then.....................the commuter got a good deal and the non-commuter got the shaft? "Just a little outside" my friend.
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