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Yeah I'm wondering if these 4 had a history of not showing up when they were supposed to and it was later proven. Having previously been in a position to hire & fire folks (thankfully only had to fire one) it takes a lot at most places to lose your job. Usually a combination of bad attitude and repeated history of slacking will do it. Too bad, silly thing to throw away a career for.
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I don't feel sorry for anyone of the pilots who got fired.
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The pilots who got fired were not out of position one or two times.....or even ten times. One fired pilot was out of position over 80 times. That pilot was on the 747, so in other words he could have held a line on another airplane and not been commuting to reserve. No, he chose to abuse the system and sit at home getting paid, not even attempting to comply with the contractual requirements. In the meantime, when the company did need a short call pilot someone else had to go out and fly.
I don't feel sorry for anyone of the pilots who got fired.
I don't feel sorry for anyone of the pilots who got fired.
If you don't miss an assignment how would the company verify you weren't in base?
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Nonrev records, jumpseat records, KCM records. I'm sure the fired pilots were given a chance to prove they bought tickets or drove, but if you live in Florida (for example) and there is no evidence you got yourself to DTW, it's hard to argue you were in position for short call.
The pilots who got fired were not out of position one or two times.....or even ten times. One fired pilot was out of position over 80 times. That pilot was on the 747, so in other words he could have held a line on another airplane and not been commuting to reserve. No, he chose to abuse the system and sit at home getting paid, not even attempting to comply with the contractual requirements. In the meantime, when the company did need a short call pilot someone else had to go out and fly.
I don't feel sorry for anyone of the pilots who got fired.
I don't feel sorry for anyone of the pilots who got fired.
I don't abuse but greatly appreciate the flexibility of our short call. Luckily by choice I can make it in an hour . I can get a call, be doing anything at my house , take a shower, get dressed and make it to work. If it went down to a solid hard time that would suck!
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Nonrev records, jumpseat records, KCM records. I'm sure the fired pilots were given a chance to prove they bought tickets or drove, but if you live in Florida (for example) and there is no evidence you got yourself to DTW, it's hard to argue you were in position for short call.
That's what I figured but it still seems like it would be hard to prove.
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But since everyone deserves the most robust and aggressive defense possible, how exactly will anyone prove where you were or weren't in the past? If you rolled the dice and won on previous occasions, that closes the book on that anyway. You got lucky, end of story. Oh but our records show you flew to FL a day or three before and didn't fly back. Yeah well sometimes I drive (I love road trips) and sometimes I fly a small plane and sometimes I buy offline tickets and you don't have access to that information.
I'm all for holding guys accountable within reason when they actually get busted (but that approach should include graduated discipline and not cleared direct to UFIRD). But we shouldn't facilitate or tolerate blind fishing expeditions that try to retroactively prove guilt by inference. That's just ridiculous.
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Nonrev records, jumpseat records, KCM records. I'm sure the fired pilots were given a chance to prove they bought tickets or drove, but if you live in Florida (for example) and there is no evidence you got yourself to DTW, it's hard to argue you were in position for short call.
Please.
Hold them accountable for what they actually got busted for within fair reasonableness. Absolutely. But assumptions of guilt based on them not being able to "prove" something in the past is unreasonable.
Sorry but we gotta dig in and defend them against that BS.
Yes, but if they ask whether you were in position, better tell the truth. You don't know what evidence they already have, and you might convert a wrist-slap for carelessness into a termination for lying.
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If you're on short call and playing the company, it's stealing. Disclaimer, I don't know the details of the terminations. When I did short call, I was available. That's reserve 101.
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