Drill Sgt. Dad
Fugitive Recovery Agent
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- Aug 29, 2005
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This is a good example of a post by someone who is not a line pilot.
I was neither in management nor a line pilot. I worked in Dispatch, a UNION group.
Oh so then you have no idea what it's like to be away from home for 15-18 days a month living in hotel rooms? Sometimes for two weeks at a time because your company decided to make both ends of your trip uncommutable and set your schedule up so that you have a three day backed up by a two day with only one day off in between before the next set of five days in a row starts. Yeah, now I know what you're going to say, "well you knew what you were getting yourself into when you took the job." Well you might be onto something there, but maybe that's why pilots used to get compensated the way they did and would get a fair amount of days off. Because they miss every holiday, birthday, anniversary, baseball game, and work every weekend, which is when normal people go out and socialize. Why do you think most pilots have been divorced, most of them twice?
Oh so then you have no idea what it's like to be away from home for 15-18 days a month living in hotel rooms? Sometimes for two weeks at a time because your company decided to make both ends of your trip uncommutable and set your schedule up so that you have a three day backed up by a two day with only one day off in between before the next set of five days in a row starts. Yeah, now I know what you're going to say, "well you knew what you were getting yourself into when you took the job." Well you might be onto something there, but maybe that's why pilots used to get compensated the way they did and would get a fair amount of days off. Because they miss every holiday, birthday, anniversary, baseball game, and work every weekend, which is when normal people go out and socialize. Why do you think most pilots have been divorced, most of them twice?
Move to your domicile, try to get the day trips/ 2day trips and start rebuilding your life. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Stop torturing yourself in hotel rooms and by commuting. Take the move expenses, move, and begin to live a normal life again. Commuting must end to return to some sense of normal life. A campaign should be started for management to make nothing but day trips or two days trips/ Standups. Save money on hotels. End 4 day trips now! Use the money saved on hotels to pay us more. In fact airline schedules should be nothing but locals. Also throw in some two day trips and Standups to cover the RONs. By doing locals and two day trips you won't miss nearly as many milestones in your life. The airline lifestyle of living in a hotel must end!!
I'm beginning to think you really are as stupid as you seem. Otherwise, you'd realize the whole point for RONs is flying an early morning originator to the hub.
Yeah, people who were told "we're NEVER leaving Denver" should root up their teenage children, sell their homes, and move out to the croweded, expensive, sh!thole east coast simply so management can save some bucks.
You said everything I wanted to say...I just didn't get here in time
except that you should gladly keep moving everytime you get discplaced, upgrade or whatever the reason to move domiciles.....