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05-29-2022, 05:40 PM
#1501
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2015
Posts: 1,173
Yes, people were making assumptions about people who pick up trips over vacation. Agree to disagree. We have a contract, I work within the boundaries of that contract to benefit my family and me the best I see fit and I don’t make judgements about other union members doing the same. I might get frustrated when seniority causes something to not work out my way, but I don’t say it’s a garbage move, because that’s the system I signed up for.
That is a true statement.
If you bid a summer week, have the seniority to be awarded that summer week, but then show up at work....you have quite literally 'wasted' that week of vacation.
You will be rewarded monetarily, but that week of vacation is gone forever.
You actually believe that?
05-29-2022, 05:50 PM
#1502
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jan 2017
Posts: 42
Nobody said it was a garbage move. They said you are wasting a vacation week.
That is a true statement.
If you bid a summer week, have the seniority to be awarded that summer week, but then show up at work....you have quite literally 'wasted' that week of vacation.
You will be rewarded monetarily, but that week of vacation is gone forever.
You actually believe that?
That is a true statement.
If you bid a summer week, have the seniority to be awarded that summer week, but then show up at work....you have quite literally 'wasted' that week of vacation.
You will be rewarded monetarily, but that week of vacation is gone forever.
You actually believe that?
Yeah they did just a few posts up.
Believe what? I’m just saying what was in the reporting point when we were voting for a vacation change. But this isn’t a vacation thread.
05-29-2022, 08:00 PM
#1503
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: Couch-Horizontal
Posts: 467
Love it when guys tell other guys what they should do over their vacation weeks. I assume these are the same guys that text first year FOs and tell them how to bid on open time trips.
And yeah, I pulled in 165 this month and worked 9 days AND took a weeklong trip with my family. Why? Because I can.
And yeah, I pulled in 165 this month and worked 9 days AND took a weeklong trip with my family. Why? Because I can.
05-29-2022, 08:18 PM
#1504
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: Couch-Horizontal
Posts: 467
Nobody said it was a garbage move. They said you are wasting a vacation week.
That is a true statement.
If you bid a summer week, have the seniority to be awarded that summer week, but then show up at work....you have quite literally 'wasted' that week of vacation.
You will be rewarded monetarily, but that week of vacation is gone forever.
That is a true statement.
If you bid a summer week, have the seniority to be awarded that summer week, but then show up at work....you have quite literally 'wasted' that week of vacation.
You will be rewarded monetarily, but that week of vacation is gone forever.
05-29-2022, 09:05 PM
#1505
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Posts: 2,919
I got a lot of friends who’ve been hired since Dec and some have asked how to make the most $ they can with 0 seniority. I’ll give some tricks I know that I wish someone had told me…like if you live in base and bid a rsv block it and anything awarded pays 2nd yr pay. Most people won’t bid rsv since they can do better with premium so you sit at home for 2nd yr pay or go work and make more.
06-23-2022, 08:48 PM
#1506
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2015
Posts: 831
Another very interesting development - right now the junior Captain will be in Denver...you need a little more seniority to hold Oakland or LA.
06-23-2022, 08:53 PM
#1507
Furloughed Again?!
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: Boeing 737
Posts: 4,804
Sadly I have vacation in July, and was told by SWAPA contract admin take it or leave it. If I take the upgrade I'd have to move my vacation. Since I've made promises to the family that I'm unwilling to break, I'll have to bypass again.
06-23-2022, 09:30 PM
#1509
Strike averted!
Joined APC: Mar 2015
Position: B737
Posts: 3,786
Yes. Vacation week is gone. But “I can’t wait for year end pay thread to be started so I can run to APC and brag about how much I made! Where’s my flip book with pictures of my boat, 3 girlfriends, 4 Wheelers, trout pond, wife’s fake boobs, mountain home, keto diet, Tesla, and calf implants.”
/rant off
06-23-2022, 10:15 PM
#1510
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Posts: 3,665
Haha. Same here. One of my first trips in the airline industry had a full on slideshow of naked wife pics. I mean what do you say to something like that? Thanks? Good job? In what freaky deaky universe is that the norm?
Thankfully I either gained enough seniority or just put off the "no naked wife" vibe now. I haven't seen anything exposed below the waist in like 3 or 4 years. Some of y'all need Jesus.
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