Long Term Training out...
02-26-2009, 07:37 PM
#11
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Guys, the DC8 trainer ranks are being decimated by this bid. Before you guys think furlough, it is quite possible that they don't have enough people to do the training. Also, isn't it a good thing that you guys are still flying in your current seat? Maybe another bid will come out, letting you all to bid off the -8 before you have to actually train? This has happened before. Just chill and wait - it's not always bad news.
Off to bid my displacement downbid class date.......
02-26-2009, 07:48 PM
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They don't, the IPA instructor ranks really were decimated. Gonna take awhile to reconstitute, as it is, the supes will be doing alot of the school house stuff and see few IPA in the 8 program. Hopefully, some IPA folks apply for these jobs. (long term interest to IPA)
Off to bid my displacement downbid class date.......
Off to bid my displacement downbid class date.......
02-26-2009, 09:28 PM
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I have a strong feeling they'll be invoking the "or pay in lieu thereof" language. So with my furlough letter will be a check for 3 months' pay and no prior notice. Hopefully they'll put an advisement on my line before I commute to work. (If not, I might find out about the furlough when an off-line carrier tells me I'm NOT listed in CASS)!
Giving 90 days is ridiculous -- furloughees will burn all our sick time (since they're not gonna buy our sick time out before the furlough, may as well use those 90 days to look for a job) and that's going to make the open time ban even more difficult to deal with. My guess would be: they'll just plan on everybody going out on a certain day by stacking the bid period with more reserve lines than usual to cover open time ban and not announce that plan until they pull the trigger. That will happen after most of the training for the 'critical' seats is accomplished, so what, early- to mid-summer?
Giving 90 days is ridiculous -- furloughees will burn all our sick time (since they're not gonna buy our sick time out before the furlough, may as well use those 90 days to look for a job) and that's going to make the open time ban even more difficult to deal with. My guess would be: they'll just plan on everybody going out on a certain day by stacking the bid period with more reserve lines than usual to cover open time ban and not announce that plan until they pull the trigger. That will happen after most of the training for the 'critical' seats is accomplished, so what, early- to mid-summer?
Last edited by Buck92; 02-26-2009 at 10:38 PM.
02-26-2009, 09:38 PM
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I have a strong feeling they'll be invoking the "or pay in lieu thereof" language. So with my furlough letter will be a check for 3 months' pay and no prior notice.
Giving 90 days is ridiculous -- furloughees will burn all our sick time (since they're not gonna buy our sick time out before the furlough, may as well use those 90 days to look for a job) and that's going to make the open time ban even more difficult to deal with. My guess would be: they'll just plan on everybody going out on a certain day by stacking the bid period with more reserve lines than usual to cover open time ban and not announce that plan until they pull the trigger. That will happen after most of the training for the 'critical' seats is accomplished, so what, early- to mid-summer?
Giving 90 days is ridiculous -- furloughees will burn all our sick time (since they're not gonna buy our sick time out before the furlough, may as well use those 90 days to look for a job) and that's going to make the open time ban even more difficult to deal with. My guess would be: they'll just plan on everybody going out on a certain day by stacking the bid period with more reserve lines than usual to cover open time ban and not announce that plan until they pull the trigger. That will happen after most of the training for the 'critical' seats is accomplished, so what, early- to mid-summer?
02-27-2009, 04:49 AM
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