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a320drivr

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Just received an email from a buddy that says the jetblue chief pilots office has new and used uniform pieces for sale. How pathetic. I guess a ton of people are leaving for greener pastures.
 
a320drivr said:
Just received an email from a buddy that says the jetblue chief pilots office has new and used uniform pieces for sale. How pathetic. I guess a ton of people are leaving for greener pastures.
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So?

Most places you'd just throw that stuff away.

Instead of making it garbage.. you ask if anyone is interested in it.

Yea.. its a little unusual...
But don't make it out to be more than it is.
 
New saying

Commercial airline pilots, First class pilots, second class pay. Cargo all the way. New hire two weeks behind me at SWA left after 3 months at Jet Blue. chief pilot told him he had lost 17 guys previous month Jan.
 
Actually I was in there today and got 2 brand new pairs of pants for $20!! That is great considering that I was going to use my yearly uniform credit for 2 pants at $85 a piece...

I asked what the deal was and she told me that some of the stuff was either stuff that was in the lost and found forever or uniform items that were ordered and never picked up by the crewmembers.

I am sure there may have been a few pieces that were turned in when someone left so you glory hole seekers can put a negative spin on things.
 
Actually, the Chief Pilot's office is selling their pilots.

It seems a lot of busy people in the burroughs are looking for experienced housekeepers.

I think it's nice that JBLU can give their pilots a side job while not flying and making those industry leading E190 salaries.

Ramen Noodles anyone?
 
RideandDrive said:
No what's weird is that when I quit they wanted all of the stuff returned. Dirty pants, blazer, tie, etc.
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No, what's weird is that when you were hired you didn't notice the agreement you signed to do just that. But then I don't read anything I sign either, LOL.
 
a320drivr said:
Just received an email from a buddy that says the jetblue chief pilots office has new and used uniform pieces for sale. How pathetic. I guess a ton of people are leaving for greener pastures.
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From a "buddy" -- ha. Yeah riiiight.

I am in no way a fan of all things blue, but let's get some perspective here: THEY PAY FOR THE UNIFORMS. And to top it off they give you 200 bux a year EACH YEAR to maintain them. I would say they own the uniforms. The laptop. Hell even the rollaboard they bought me (when they used to do that). Whether it's in bad condition or merely used condition it's THEIRS. And you signed a statement (or your buddy did) that promised to return all of it upon resignation or termination.

How many airlines buy your uniforms, give you a laptop (that you use for personal email, pictures, games -- you oldtimers with admin rights, tracking investments, studying for second degrees, porn, more porn, movies, porno movies) -- hell even offer you 200 bux a year to maintain those uniforms? Seriously. How many?
 
Frank Lorenzo said:
Actually, the Chief Pilot's office is selling their pilots.

It seems a lot of busy people in the burroughs are looking for experienced housekeepers.

I think it's nice that JBLU can give their pilots a side job while not flying and making those industry leading E190 salaries.

Ramen Noodles anyone?
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Actually a few of our FA's set up a cleaning company in NY.. They charge 25$ per hour and hear they are quite busy
 
Hose A. Jiminez said:
Why in the hell would a company provide you with a laptop?
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Hose -- We get them to do our job. I just didn't list the "real" reason we have company laptops. My point was that those laptops are quite useful to the pilot group for many other reasons.
 
I've had uniforms provided by two other employers at no cost. One was the famously anti labor Atlas Air. Only Jetblue asks for the uniforms to be returned. It is a unique policy and another Jetblueism.
 
RideandDrive said:
I've had uniforms provided by two other employers at no cost. One was the famously anti labor Atlas Air. Only Jetblue asks for the uniforms to be returned. It is a unique policy and another Jetblueism.
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At nwa they ask that we "dispose"of them in a secure manor.

Probably so they don't end up on ebay!!

Db
 
RideandDrive said:
I've had uniforms provided by two other employers at no cost. One was the famously anti labor Atlas Air. Only Jetblue asks for the uniforms to be returned. It is a unique policy and another Jetblueism.
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I have worked for 3 other companies. All wanted uniforms, id's, and all other associated items returned...

Then again why does it really matter?
 
clickclickboom said:
Then again why does it really matter?
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IMO, it doesn't matter that they want the company-issued items returned. If I leave, I'd be happy to hand them my worn out, pitted, ring-around-the-BLUE-COLLAR shirts and shiny plastic pants. Perhaps you can buy them for a discount.

I thought it was a little crass of the CP's Office to send out the email soliciting for the purchase of used uniform items though. Maybe DN can use the discounted uniform items (in addition to the use of seniority and its intrinsic bidding advantages) in his argument of how to offset the cost of inflation and why we are paid so well.
 
RideandDrive said:
I've had uniforms provided by two other employers at no cost. One was the famously anti labor Atlas Air. Only Jetblue asks for the uniforms to be returned. It is a unique policy and another Jetblueism.
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I heard a "story" about 10 yrs ago. AA had a probationary pilot that they had to fire for some reason (couldnt get thru IOE). In his last pay check, they deducted the remainder of his uniform balance. This fired pilot, went to the airport in his uniform (again this is prior to 9/11), and went to the bar and got a beer. Word got to the station Chief Pilot that a pilot was drinking at the bar. The CP went to see it for himself. He tells this pilot he cant be drinking in uniform. The guy responds with, " I dont work for you, I will sit here all day and drink in this uniform, unless you want to buy the uniform from me for $500".

Doubt that its true, but thought it was a good story.
 
JBPA said:
I thought it was a little crass of the CP's Office to send out the email soliciting for the purchase of used uniform items though. Maybe DN can use the discounted uniform items (in addition to the use of seniority and its intrinsic bidding advantages) in his argument of how to offset the cost of inflation and why we are paid so well.
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Now that's a valid argument. How about donating the proceeds to JCCF or a charity?
 
RideandDrive said:
I've had uniforms provided by two other employers at no cost. One was the famously anti labor Atlas Air. Only Jetblue asks for the uniforms to be returned. It is a unique policy and another Jetblueism.
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yeah. you would look really sharp in a blue shirt at UPS right!
 
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I never recieved an email talking about buying uniforms from the CP's office. I did see something about it over at BP but thats it. Maybe it was just sent to the jfk folks.....hmmmm.
 
Longhorn said:
I never recieved an email talking about buying uniforms from the CP's office. I did see something about it over at BP but thats it. Maybe it was just sent to the jfk folks.....hmmmm.
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It was sent to the JFK Pilots but not to BOS, LGA or FLL.
 

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