Junior Manning?

[LR25]

I sure would like to help you but:

I just took the timing chain off my car and uh......

(cell phone call) Im in another state....

I guess there are a bunch huh.

Im out working my other job....(thats for us regoinal pilots)

Have fun

LR25

 

[AZaviator]

As a former Dispatcher for a large regional airline, I worked right next to the crew schedulers. They had a really evil way of getting pilots to call them. First they'd call the ops. station the crew was arriving, and tell them to have the crew call Dispatch. Then, sometime around when the crew was supposed to call, they'd come over to my desk and say "If Captain Smith happens to call you, transfer him to me when you're done talking to him." So, the next thing I know out of the blue, Captain Smith calls, and I"m like..."uuhh...yea....what did you need?" and he's like, "uh, nothing, what did you need?" and I'm like, "uh, nothing, but come to think of it, Scheduling wanted to talk to you, one sec."

In a few days I caught on to what was going on and put a stop to it. You have to admit though, that's pretty evil!

 

[LearLove]

Its not that big of a deal

In three years I've only been Jr manned once. It was to do an ABE-PHL round trip. I left the house at 3pm and walked back in at 7pm. 6 hours pay for 4 hours and I was just sittin around surfing porn and watching Springer when they called. Anyway no need to make up stories like drinking and cloths at the cleaners just tell them your unavailable and thats it. No further explaination needed. Or just don't answer "unknown caller" caller id displays.

I once herd a story of ALG crew sked jr manning a guy based in syr when he was home in Miami. They called his cell and wanted him at the airport in 1 hour. When he told the crew skeduler he was at home and couldn't make it she yelled and went off on how they could do this as per the contract bla bla bla. He said fine just have the Concord meet him at the FBO in Miami and he'd be there. Aparently the phone was silent for a few seconds and then they hung up.