Flyboy4u said:
chisprings said:
I received an option II trip from Miss Treasure..she thanked me for my help the week before. I really wans't doing her a favor that night it was AA I did a favor fon. ...
Thanks for continuing to take Option II trips. Do you have any clue how many of us are on furlough? You may not want to be a member of a union but you have no choice as a F/A. Stop being so selfish and pickup trips from other fellow F/A's so we can get our job back. <_<
Flyboy4u, your assumption about what chisprings wrote is ironic in the context of my original post where I asked everyone to give operaations the benefit of the doubt. You assume that the story is recent. The truth is that it could have happened 10 years ago.
I'm not saying it did; I don't know. But, one of the reasons that the situation never seems to get any better is that it only takes one incident for a flight attendant to dine out on that incident for the rest of his/her career. (Or, one incident of a flight attendant deliberately misconnecting at DFW for a scheduler to start his/her lament of "ALL flight attendants are lazy/deceitful/fill in the blank.")
Quite frankly, I've been guilty in the past of repeating my own "grossly unfair, cavalier treatment by a scheduler" story and conveniently leaving out the part about how long ago it happened for fear that most people might say, "Don't you think it's time to get over it and move on?"
In any relationship counseling--marriage, work, you name it--one of the FIRST rules the counselor will lay down is STICK TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND and STAY IN THE PRESENT when discussing or arguing about anything. Neither side is allowed to talk about what happened in the past or between people other than the people present in the discussion or argument. In other words, you can't counter any statement with "Well, I accept that operaations means well, but back in 1986, Homer, the devil scheduler, made me..."
I still say that statements such as, "I'd like to see things change, but they are never going to change," are just baloney. What you really mean when you make statements such as that is "I'm going to guarantee that things will never change by dredging up the past at every opportunity."
"Behold this flight attendant of sorrows. He/she was despise-ed [by scheduling]. Is there no sorrow like unto his/her sorrow?" It's just really tiresome.
While warning others not to fall into a company trap,
you are doing the company's bidding. The company thinks it has a vested interest in maintaining an adversarial relationship between the schedulers and the flight attendants. The truth of the matter is that the continuous sniping between work groups--it's not just schedulers vs. flight attendants--distracts us all from the real crisis...Saving the company and thereby saving our jobs (or, in my case, saving the company so that there will be a job for me to come back to).
Now you can moan from now until doomsday about your mistreatment at the hands of [fill in the blank]. The truth is that no one else in the unemployment line with you is going to give a continental damn. It's like the pedestrian who got run over by the drunk driver. The pedestrian had the right of way, but he's just as dead as if he didn't.