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Old 11-01-2013, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Carl Spackler
If you had actually been a part of any of them, you'd know there was indeed some dissention and lots of discussion. Nobody drinking from anybody's cup. That's not how we roll.

Your credibility will be enhanced if you discuss things you actually know something about.

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Yeah, sad that I cannot participate, but the price of admission is waaaaaay too high, so I'll have to take your word about that too.
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Old 11-01-2013, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Delta1067
No benefit. You are pretty much working for free on your days off and you don't get the x days back. The only advantage is if you are trying to break guarantee or get your RAW up.
I overheard a guy on the employee bus talking about asking the company to change his green slip to a yellow slip on his days off. He didn't want to lose the chance to fly on his next on-call days. He basically bragged about flying every single day he could for the past several months--one month he said he flew 23 days in a row. His RAW was 233.

I'm not making this up. We are our own worst enemies.
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Old 11-01-2013, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Purple Drank

I'm not making this up. We are our own worst enemies.
Meh. To each his own. Dude likes to fly. Maybe he doesn't want to be home for some reason. The more he flies, the less somebody else has to.
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Old 11-01-2013, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Purple Drank
I overheard a guy on the employee bus talking about asking the company to change his green slip to a yellow slip on his days off. He didn't want to lose the chance to fly on his next on-call days. He basically bragged about flying every single day he could for the past several months--one month he said he flew 23 days in a row. His RAW was 233.

I'm not making this up. We are our own worst enemies.
C'mon Purple, nobody is that dumb. Unless he's the guy you see in the mall wearing his uniform and HAT.
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Old 11-01-2013, 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by dalad
C'mon Purple, nobody is that dumb. Unless he's the guy you see in the mall wearing his uniform and HAT.
I asked him if he was serious... He was. He showed me a copy of his schedule. He was quite proud of himself.
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Old 11-01-2013, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by dalad
C'mon Purple, nobody is that dumb. Unless he's the guy you see in the mall wearing his uniform and HAT.
I'm confused.....so we're NOT supposed to wear the hat in the mall?!!!!
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Old 11-01-2013, 02:40 PM
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Woohoo! Just got a vacation moveup to Christmas off!!

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Old 11-01-2013, 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by flying_wendell
Ok, thanks. Sadly this is an education I should've gotten before I rashly put in a yellow slip on an x-day thinking that yellow was the reserve 'green'. Predictably I was assigned a trip almost instantaneously and will now be contributing to the company's profitability (and y'all s profit sharing) through my stupidity. Oh well, at least it was only a day trip.
You're not the lone ranger there. You learn your best contract lessons from messing yourself up. Unfortunately, each screw up gives you a little mental scar that a post like yours just re-scratches. Been there done that...once.
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Old 11-01-2013, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by flying_wendell
Reserve question.

What is the advantage, if any, of yellow slipping on an x-day? Is there more pay involved, day off back, etc? I've tried to discern the answers from the contract but seem to be incapable. Thanks.
The only time I see an advantage to putting in a ys is when the wife says her mother is coming for a couple days. Throw one in and your problems are solved. There is no way you will get in trouble with your wife because she will never figure out what a ys is. Even we don't really know what it is or why you would ever actually put one in.
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Old 11-01-2013, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Purple Drank
I overheard a guy on the employee bus talking about asking the company to change his green slip to a yellow slip on his days off. He didn't want to lose the chance to fly on his next on-call days. He basically bragged about flying every single day he could for the past several months--one month he said he flew 23 days in a row. His RAW was 233.

I'm not making this up. We are our own worst enemies.
He could agree to roll his PB days, or bank them.

Sometimes a guy just has to get out of the house. Worse, some guys have no house. At the previous airline we had a guy who lived in the crew lounge and tried to stay in a hotel every night. I truly do not believe he had a "home" in the traditional sense. He was in his early forties going on age 65.
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