N965VJ
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Look at it? You mean it’s all pictures now, with no big words?
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Wow, sorry about the humor. Let's tell tales of uneventful flights with normal co-workers.
It's our version of office humor, sorry you take it so personally...
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Yes, It's not a demand but when you have this person and their friends staring you down for an entire flight it makes for a very uncomfortable ride home. I can decline but don't make me feel like a tool for declining. I thought the post was about shark-like co-workers or did I get lost??
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Nothing taken personal here. . . and I'm sorry that whining is evidentally your only outlet of humor.
most of you know who i am personally and know i commute to mco. i have asked f/a to work for me but always politely. i have had only one person decline. i asked if she would work the leg for me so i could go home because my kid was sick. she was deadheading. she said she would do it. while i was on the phone with sched she asked me to ask them if she was getting paid for it. i did and sched said no because she was volunteering to work for me. she then declined and said she does not work for free. i told her that i completely understood. she was on reserve and i know things are tight on reserve. it was a leg from clt-phl. i then asked the other people on the crew who were also deadheading and one said if i paid her 45 bucks she would do it. these were blockholders. sorry but i am not going to pay someone 45 bucks to work leg for me from clt-phl. sea-phl yes but not clt-phl. so i just worked my leg "a " pos 757 to phl . as soon as i got there guess who was waiting for me. the lady with the white envelope . the first time in my career. i was like "you gotta be f,n kidding me, my flt on sw leaves in 15 min out e concourse" i ran upstairs like hell , breathed into the breathalizer, was cleared(thank god :huh: ), ran back downstairs like a crazy fool,and made my flt to mco on sw. i got home a little later than i wanted but i still made it home. but i wasn't mad. if you can't do it ,you can't do it. if i could work a flt for anyone(barring i am not commuting in for a transatlantic or transcon that would make me illegal) , i would gladly do it. i am not the type of person to take cash from no one but if you insist ....why not?
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Okay, I chuckled and figured I had nothing to add, but as a sort of outsider on this, (I rarely switch my schedule, and try not to be at work more than 1/2 hour before my check in) I do have to corroborate the sometimes bizarre behavior that they're talking about.
I'll never forget: I was a reserve at the time, when I saw this senior mama try to intimidate a quickcall (for her trip: stuck on 95 and no cell phone) into backing down and going home. I was about to get between her and the other reserve when the reserve just looked her steely in the eyes and said "sorry, I need the time" only to be responded by "you should be". I almost shot off the jetway, but the quick call took it better than I did.
As for the "how'd you get this" it actually isn't coming from as bad of a place as it sounds. Sometimes it's well meant and translates to "good for you!" or "you got lucky today"! I have had it almost come out of my mouth once or twice and it was never meant pejoratively, only a "hey isn't this better than Buffalo".
Every career whines. Ever listen to the FAMs? They sound just like us!
I'll never forget: I was a reserve at the time, when I saw this senior mama try to intimidate a quickcall (for her trip: stuck on 95 and no cell phone) into backing down and going home. I was about to get between her and the other reserve when the reserve just looked her steely in the eyes and said "sorry, I need the time" only to be responded by "you should be". I almost shot off the jetway, but the quick call took it better than I did.
As for the "how'd you get this" it actually isn't coming from as bad of a place as it sounds. Sometimes it's well meant and translates to "good for you!" or "you got lucky today"! I have had it almost come out of my mouth once or twice and it was never meant pejoratively, only a "hey isn't this better than Buffalo".
Every career whines. Ever listen to the FAMs? They sound just like us!
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Um, are you a flight attendant?
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I’m not a FA anymore, but the next time I see a twenty-something on one of my INTL flights that looks like they have a sense of humor, I’m going to ask them “How did you get this trip!?â€
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Don't hold your breath for it. There's not a whole lot of 'twenty-somethings', probably less than 10 in Philly... you're more likely to see a unicorn trotting down the concourse.
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Do we still have those at US East...You may find an early thirty something but a twenty-something is pushing it!!
USCREW
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...could happen...
I know of at least three. They rub it in.
YVINTERN
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I had one of them "rubbing it in its" on my flight...was he from Vancouver?
