How to quit?

[flyguy03]

Has anyone had bad a experience after they put in their two weeks notice at Pinnacle? Do they allow you to commute back home on your last day?

Thanks in advance

 

[ReportCanoa]

You can 4-1-0 it and go out with a bang.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Depends on if you ever want to fly for a living again... if not get home then about the time you are due to check in for your next flight call scheduling and inform them you are no longer willing to work for the tiny pittance they pay. Tell them double or nothing. When they say no, crack a beer into the phone and tell them you won't be in any more.
If you do want to still fly for a living, just give the standard 2 week notice letter to your chief pilot and move on to something better at the end of the 2 weeks.

 

[Longhorn]

You can 4-1-0 it and go out with a bang.

You sir are banned for good for the above comment. Totally uncalled for and disrespecting the deceased. While their decisions were not good, to make such comments on here will never be tolerated.

Good day sir.

LH

 

[Superpilot92]

You sir are banned for good for the above comment. Totally uncalled for and disrespecting the deceased. While their decisions were not good, to make such comments on here will never be tolerated.

Good day sir.

LH

Agreed!!

 

[COOPERVANE]

You sir are banned for good for the above comment. Totally uncalled for and disrespecting the deceased. While their decisions were not good, to make such comments on here will never be tolerated.

Good day sir.

LH

Agreed. Good Call.

 

[Longhorn]

Has anyone had bad a experience after they put in their two weeks notice at Pinnacle? Do they allow you to commute back home on your last day?

Thanks in advance

I know many that have quit and not had a problem getting home. If it were me, I would turn my two week notice in and a few days prior to my last day, turn in my jepps and books but keep the ID since you have not quit yet. Use the ID to get home then fedex the ID back to the company. That way you have no problems getting home. Make sure to use FedEx, UPS, certified mail etc etc...something you can track. Just make sure that if you jumpseat home, do it before your 2 week notice kicks in or you will be jumpseating as an umemployed pilot and that would be bad.

Hope this helps.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

I know many that have quit and not had a problem getting home. If it were me, I would turn my two week notice in and a few days prior to my last day, turn in my jepps and books but keep the ID since you have not quit yet. Use the ID to get home then fedex the ID back to the company. That way you have no problems getting home. Make sure to use FedEx, UPS, certified mail etc etc...something you can track.

Hope this helps.

That's basically what I did when I was furloughed. I dropped all the manuals off at the CP's office. Got the prepaid/addressed FedEx envelope. On the way from the airport stopped at the FedEx Kinkos and put the company ID, SIDA badges, and parking pass in and then headed to the unemployment office for a much deserved paid vacation...:beer:

 

[joe_pilot]

You can 4-1-0 it and go out with a bang.

You are an idiot

 

[GARFF]

Put the 2 weeks in........do a trip or 2.....and use up your sick time....use it or lose it....that's what i did at XJ.......used up every last minute of sick time...and had no problems.......however ...i was good to scheduling..on different occations....and they were good to me.......so....i had no problem.......boy...glad to be out of the redtail family.....good luck to those who are sticking it out!!!!!!!!!...........When is the next crisis?.......



Buy some shirts....www.garffshirts.com

 

[AWACoff]

Why is everybody so upset about the the area code 410? I assume this is some new kind of slang so clue in an old man if you don't mind...

 

[WSurf]

Depends on if you ever want to fly for a living again... if not get home then about the time you are due to check in for your next flight call scheduling and inform them you are no longer willing to work for the tiny pittance they pay. Tell them double or nothing. When they say no, crack a beer into the phone and tell them you won't be in any more.
If you do want to still fly for a living, just give the standard 2 week notice letter to your chief pilot and move on to something better at the end of the 2 weeks.

Come on! If you were never gonna fly again..... You could do something better and more dramatic then that!

 

[xjlifer]

That is in reference to the 9E flight that crashed after going to FL 410. The person that posted that is a Idiot and I for one am glad he/she/it was banned

 

[Dirty Sanchez]

Just walk away from a turn at an outstation and jumpseat home without letting anyone know.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Just walk away from a turn at an outstation and jumpseat home without letting anyone know.

Better yet quit at the outstation you live closest to (if it isn't a hub) and just turn all your stuff into the other pilot then get in your car and go home.

 

[SplitBar]

Better yet quit at the outstation you live closest to (if it isn't a hub) and just turn all your stuff into the other pilot then get in your car and go home.

Don't burn any bridges. Despite how poorly you company has treated you, be the better man and give proper notice. Why take it out on passengers and ruin someones vacation. Perhaps a passenger is counting on you to make a funeral or wedding or picking up a loved one from Iraq. Bottom line, be professional and don't walk away at an outstation.

 

[rtmcfi]

park it somewhere on the Bravo or Alpha taxiway in ORD, and start walking....

 

[YourPilotFriend]

Show up to work with your uniform painted on. Make sure to wear one of those pitot covers, you know the ones that say "remove before flight".

 

[Metro752]

Better yet quit at the outstation you live closest to (if it isn't a hub) and just turn all your stuff into the other pilot then get in your car and go home.

This would be ideal if you won the lotto and never had to work again. You should video tape it as well so we can all get a laugh.

Bobby: Hey I gotta go use the can (walks into building with can)

Fred: Okkkkkkkkkkkkk.

< 5 minutes goes by >

Bobby: Hey Fred, here's my ********************, I'm out.

Fred: What? We're in Peoria Illinois, where are you going?

Bobby: Oh my mom's over there in that cream colored caddy. I live about 5 minutes down the road.

Fred: God dang it bobby!

 

[LowlyPropCapt]

Come on! If you were never gonna fly again..... You could do something better and more dramatic then that!

More dramatic? Rumor has it a Piedmont CA did this some years ago, who it was I don't know...

Take the airplane as scheduled to an outstation, preferably as distant as possible. Once you arrive, call crew scheduling and say "hey your airplane is in XYZ, I quit." Then you run and non-rev home before they can cancel your ID.

 

[lowtimedriver]

Aside from all the wisecracking, give professional notice. You may need a reference from these people some day. Only 10% all the companies in the US are top notch companies to work for. Everyone has to pay their dues to get their dream job. Don't screw your career up by giving improper notice.

 

[WSurf]

Or you could send a happy farwell to the CEO, buy sending Kelly and the Inter-Species Erotica Show to his office!

 

[rickair7777]

Come on! If you were never gonna fly again..... You could do something better and more dramatic then that!

If you're done with the industry, on your next-to-last leg at an outstaion...

Press both IDG disconnects when no one is looking.

Take a big fat dump on your seat.

Walk off the plane and jumpseat home.

When the CP calls, tell him you quit.

 

[CRJMonkey]

ReportCanona you are a total jerk!

 

[pgcfii2002]

If you never plan to fly again or work in this industry, streak through the terminal only wearing a pitot tube cover.

If you plan to continue employment in the aviation industry, give proper notice and do things by the book.

 

[Rally]

Do what I did at my non aviation job I hated. I started noticably burning through my sick leave because I knew the ship was going down. The two managers used to hate me because they would lie and I would call them on it. Anyhow 2 months before I quit I told them I had a case of the **its. He's like your gonna need a doctors note. I said ok so I called up my nextdoor neighbor who is also a pilot and had him write one,----however he's a chiropracter. They had to take the note though. Fast foward 2 months forward I am still eating my sick leave alive. They call me in the office one day and are like we are forcing you to take a new position (same type of job) and you'll start in two weeks. He later adds that if I just took the position for sake of money just so I could find another position that he does'nt get mad he gets even. He also said that he was "the steve irwin of <insert his job title>" I said what does that mean? He died doing his job? It was pretty funny so what do I do? I take the job, and wait to the first day that I am to start and quit. However before I did that left vm(s) (6 and some of them my buddy left for me) for the previous day saying that I had the **its, all with sound effects. That I was the steve irwin of **its.

Anyhow. Airlines---two week notice and do it right. Some crap job at a bank with them pissing on you everyday and harrassing you----remember one thing "right to work".

 

[xjlifer]

Do what I did at my non aviation job I hated. I started noticably burning through my sick leave because I knew the ship was going down. The two managers used to hate me because they would lie and I would call them on it. Anyhow 2 months before I quit I told them I had a case of the **its. He's like your gonna need a doctors note. I said ok so I called up my nextdoor neighbor who is also a pilot and had him write one,----however he's a chiropracter. They had to take the note though. Fast foward 2 months forward I am still eating my sick leave alive. They call me in the office one day and are like we are forcing you to take a new position (same type of job) and you'll start in two weeks. He later adds that if I just took the position for sake of money just so I could find another position that he does'nt get mad he gets even. He also said that he was "the steve irwin of <insert his job title>" I said what does that mean? He died doing his job? It was pretty funny so what do I do? I take the job, and wait to the first day that I am to start and quit. However before I did that left vm(s) (6 and some of them my buddy left for me) for the previous day saying that I had the **its, all with sound effects. That I was the steve irwin of **its.

Anyhow. Airlines---two week notice and do it right. Some crap job at a bank with them pissing on you everyday and harrassing you----remember one thing "right to work".

I think my eyes are now bleeding.

 

[Soverytired]

. On the way from the airport stopped at the FedEx Kinkos and put the company ID, SIDA badges, and parking pass in and then headed to the unemployment office for a much deserved paid vacation...:beer:

Funniest story from the Mesa trenches of this type was a pilot who FedExed his badge into corporate . . .



. . . . and was NextDay FedEx'ed an NEW badge the day after they received the old one!


Har har har . . . you can never leave the MAG . . . . .

 

[Lear70]

Funniest story from the Mesa trenches of this type was a pilot who FedExed his badge into corporate . . .



. . . . and was NextDay FedEx'ed an NEW badge the day after they received the old one!


Har har har . . . you can never leave the MAG . . . . .

ROFLMAO!!! That's pretty funny stuff right thar'... I don't care WHO you are!

OK, since no one has really answered the question, which was will PCL get you home after you PROPERLY give 2 week's notice, the answer is YES, they will.

All 3 domiciles are staffed with very cool admins (I'm not talking about the base managers / chief pilots, I'm talking about the admin assistants) who will always make sure you get home. Feel free to PM me for specifics,,,

Even if you didn't give 2 week's notice, you don't need to sweat it - they cannot just take your stuff and leave you stranded, that's a pretty quick lawsuit just waiting to happen and there's ENOUGH law suits pending against PCL by former employees that they're starting to smarten up.

What I and most of my buddies who quit did was, on our last day, jumpseat home on our I.D. then FedEx in our books and I.D. (using the company account number, the admins will give it to you). Once they receive it, they'll release your last check.

Otherwise, if your last day is a work day, they'll collect your stuff then they'll write you a must-ride pass home, just like they did when you came in to interview.

Good luck, greener pastures, and clear skies!

------

p.s. Too bad Canoa can't see all the responses here now that he's been banned. VERY, VERY poor taste.

 

[Abbey]

I gave XJ a good 4 days notice. That was 3 days and 22.5 hours more than they deserved. They were/are furloughing so I thought "hey, here's one off the top half." All the C.P. said was "I don't blame ya, thanks for your service and I wish you the best."