Flight Opts Management is buying the beer

[jetwash]

It seems that Flight Options management is going around to the hotels where the crews are staying and offering to buy dinner and drinks if the pilots want to talk and ask questions about the union.

From what I hear everyone is eating and drinking then telling them that they already voted for the union :laugh: :beer:

 

[hydrarkt]

HA!! That's great! Another waste of money in addtion to the union busting firm they hired! Idiots...

 

[Beatrix Kiddo]

Its about time that we got something worthwhile out of FLOPS management...:beer:

 

[leardawg]

"I know what I'll do, Smithers! Buy them beer, then they'll be too drunk to form a union. Eeeeeeeexxxxxxccccceeeelllllent! Hitch the horses to the beer wagon!!!"

 

[Spackler]

I ran into a flops pilot the other day in the hotel bar and I asked “Did you vote yet, I already did!’-I didn’t recognize him-he looked at me funny, laughed and told me he was an apm. Anyway he told me he was out on the road to spread the “management loves you, they know they have made mistakes” spiel. He didn’t buy me any beer though damn it!

So the moral of my story:
Don’t tell any management pilots that you already voted until after they buy you a beer!

 

[spngbobsqrpilot]

It seems that Flight Options management is going around to the hotels where the crews are staying and offering to buy dinner and drinks if the pilots want to talk and ask questions about the union....

Sounds a bit like "entrapment", no?

 

[FracCapt]

Sounds a bit like "entrapment", no?

Why? We're allowed to drink while off duty....under certain circumstances. I think the latest rule is that you can drink as long as it's not within 8 hours of your available duty on time. IMO, my available time is whatever I was briefed for duty on. Until then, I usually don't answer the phone.

 

[Spackler]

Entrapment might not be the word for it but “Election Interference” rings a bell! I really don’t know if this would be considered election interference but it sure seems like one of those gray areas...not too far from bribery.

 

[netjetwife]

I'm, with you Spackler. Sounds worrisome to me, too. But then, I saw some things happen to the NJ pilots during their negotiations that has left me leery of things that can turn around on you. I'd just make sure that you have a way to document the time you were drinking, to be on the safe side. You know you're within the rules, but so did my husband last year when he turned down the FBO's offer of using the crew car to go get lunch. They were flight planning over lunch, so ordered (free for them) catering. Word got back to the company and my husband had to do a telephone carpet dance to explain something that had never been questioned before. We all knew they were harassing pilots.

The other thing you can watch for now, is some of your fellow pilots to buy into that "management loves you" spiel. Remember, it gets results or they wouldn't be out there. I'm sure your leadership has a plan on how to counter the bribery.

The nice thing about this, is that it has started. It's out in the open where you can fight it. Just remember that things will be better on the other side and y'all get through it just fine. You're a threat now and that's why they're out there! Congratulations! You're off to a good start!
NJW

 

[gunfyter]

Beer me! Are they buying for NJ guys that happen to be around too?