121 Outsourced Dispather

[405]

...and of course your love and devotion to Pinnacle.

That's funny. Love and devotion to Pinnacle.

Not so much.

It's more like get to work, do my job the best I can with the rusty, broken tools I have and get the hell out uninjured.

 

[shooter]

I read about you all talking about being controllers. If you have your CTO and feel you are too old to get picked up by the feds...we may have some tower openings here at ABX soon. But again, you need your CTO then get the qual for our tower after hired. Maybe 2 openings soon.

 

[405]

I read about you all talking about being controllers. If you have your CTO and feel you are too old to get picked up by the feds...we may have some tower openings here at ABX soon. But again, you need your CTO then get the qual for our tower after hired. Maybe 2 openings soon.

Never got my CTO. I was always stuck in a radar room so that blows the whole contract tower thing out of the water as well.

 

[405]

I don't get mad anymore. I laugh. It's all one big effing sick joke.

I laugh when I hear dispatchers ask a crew that's on a plane doing a gate return with a deferred APU 'why it's so hot' on the plane. I laugh when I hear other people get in an argument with captains that want more fuel. Just give it to them already. I laugh at the poor bastards like myself with flights out of CRJ performance restricted crap airports like HPN (I love you Rachel), HLN, CPR, DCA or any other city where they sent that one piece of shat flying toilet paper tube with a deferred APR and "top off the wing tanks" MEL to.

Hey Maintenance! Don't fix it. Just defer it! (No cut on you guys.) Maintenance can't fix the planes because the company is too gd'ed cheap to order parts.

I bumped 8 revenue pax of a plane Friday for a maintenance issue and psychotically laughed all the way to my smoke break outside. I feel good about my job too. I deal with what they (clueless money grubbing bastards) give me to work with.

Let's talk about deferred APU's and hot airplanes. That's my latest argument.

I don't have a pool anymore, by the way.

 

[405]

I don't get mad anymore. I laugh. It's all one big effing sick joke.

I laugh when I hear dispatchers ask a crew that's on a plane doing a gate return with a deferred APU 'why it's so hot' on the plane. I laugh when I hear other people get in an argument with captains that want more fuel. Just give it to them already. I laugh at the poor bastards like myself with flights out of CRJ performance restricted crap airports like HPN (I love you Rachel), HLN, CPR, DCA or any other city where they sent that one piece of shat flying toilet paper tube with a deferred APR and "top off the wing tanks" MEL to.

Hey Maintenance! Don't fix it. Just defer it! (No cut on you guys.) Maintenance can't fix the planes because the company is too gd'ed cheap to order parts.

I bumped 8 revenue pax of a plane Friday for a maintenance issue and psychotically laughed all the way to my smoke break outside. I feel good about my job too. I deal with what they (clueless money grubbing bastards) give me to work with.

Let's talk about deferred APU's and hot airplanes. That's my latest argument.

I don't have a pool anymore, by the way.

I only missed the Powerball jackpot last night by five numbers.

 

[HASBEEN]

Sounds as if you need a union.

 

[homerjdispatch]

Sounds as if you need a union.

No, I dont think that will help!

 

[405]

Sounds as if you need a union.

We just happen to have one. So far they've done... nothing BUT, a union is what the membership makes it. Right?

From this point forward I will refer to a "union" as an "onion" for obvious reasons.

Isn't that something???

 

[HASBEEN]

I thought the norm was that the dreams of enjoying an aviation career will be lost without one.

How is it possible for anyone to achieve their ultimate goals without self-interested outside representation?

 

[405]

I thought the norm was that the dreams of enjoying an aviation career will be lost without one.

You're kidding, right?

How is it possible for anyone to achieve their ultimate goals without self-interested outside representation?

Gee, I don't know. I know this will be difficult for some hardcore onion people to swallow but maybe a concerned workgroup can actually work with management without a third "self-interested" group and make improvements and set work rules themselves. I know it's a novel concept. Maybe, just maybe, 32 dispatchers could make this crazy idea work.

I still have no idea to this day why it was voted in. I never heard one good reason other than "we'll have work rules". Like I've been screaming for about a year now, we already had that.

 

[HASBEEN]

Maybe there was a concern about the enforcement of child labor laws.

 

[405]

I know this is another absolutely psychotic, unrealistic concept but if you didn't perform your job to set standards, you were either demoted or fired.

Imagine that?

 

[405]

Maybe there was a concern about the enforcement of child labor laws.

Or those pesky Communists...

 

[HASBEEN]

I know this is another absolutely psychotic, unrealistic concept but if you didn't perform your job to set standards, you were either demoted or fired.

Imagine that?

A demotion to Central Load Control?

 

[405]

A demotion to Central Load Control?

I think I've explained my opinion on this before. The dispatchers getting CLC was a kneejerk reaction by a group of "managers" with dollar signs for eyeballs. They could dump the job on us and not have to give us a raise and eliminate 8 to 10 full time positions from the budget. The dummies who voted for the onion are the idiots to thank for this extra work.

Quote from senior manager one day: "It's just autoclose, right?" Well, no, it's just a wee bit more involved than what you see on a sheet of paper, chief.

HASBEEN, who the hell are you anyway?