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So I'm on reserve in EWR...

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belchfire

belchfire

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and I go out front for a smoke with my coffee. There is this male continental express FA that is wearing so dammmm much cheap stinking aftershave that I had to move upwind so I could even smell my cigarette-the coffee didn't have a chance...I couldn't imagine being in the crew van or the airplane, jeeze!

I'm kind of a MCP and a freightdog and don't have much contact with FA's to start with and really think that the standards regarding FA's should go back to what they were in the '60's (come on guys, go to interior decorating or chef's school and give the gals the cabins back!), if a few men want to push a gally cart what can I do about it...this brave new world has some drawbacks (the odor was so bad that had it been my aircraft I would have taken it up with the individual and if that failed I would have taken it up with inflight) but for the love of allah lay off the stink juice!
 
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Look's like i'm sleeping in the EWR crew room tonight.

I'm sitting R here in EWR as well.... You should come check out the view in the Pres. Club. No stinky male FAs here... Just a bunch of rich old guys with hot a$$ chicks....
 
Oh...rich old guys with young hot chicks...bet I can't afford the place!!! Got any idea where rich young chicks hit on middle aged broke men???
 
Hooters....... But seriously... If you get a Plat. Amex card they will give you a free membership to the Presidents Club. I just throw on a polo and wear my work pants. It makes sitting here on reserve much better... Plus your cell phone works.
 
Don't you guys have a crew room? I can't imagine a company letting their pilots/fas just hang around the terminal in front of pax. Or is the latter the way it works?
 
Yup... We have a crew room.. No the company doesn't dictate where we go.. As for being in the Pres. Club. I nor any other crew member in there are in uniform. Plus we paid to join it. I have the same rights as any other person there. I don't have a crash pad, and the amenities it offers is great for the few nights I have to sleep in the crew room each month.
 
Tina Fey's Scar said:
Every Mexican that came into Starbucks this morning smelled the same way.
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Mexicans? Oh you mean workers that come here and work jobs for less money.. Yeah I guess you would know that smell.

Chad- Yeah it's a great time... I will be in IAH 9/1. Hows training?
 
What's the President's club? Is that like the Delta Crown Room?
 
Bushhatesyou said:
Yeah thats it..
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Don't know about CAL, but at Delta/DCI, that's a quick way to get yourself fired. Our FOM even prohibits employees from being in the Crown Room while ON DUTY or non-revving, regardless of membership status.

And don't think they won't figure it out. As much as we don't want to believe it, we pilots stick out like a sore thumb next to the usual businessmen in there, even in cognito.
 
John Pennekamp said:
Don't know about CAL, but at Delta/DCI, that's a quick way to get yourself fired. Our FOM even prohibits employees from being in the Crown Room while ON DUTY or non-revving, regardless of membership status.

And don't think they won't figure it out. As much as we don't want to believe it, we pilots stick out like a sore thumb next to the usual businessmen in there, even in cognito.
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Nothing I can find prohibits it... For CAL
 
belchfire said:
There is this male continental express FA that is wearing so dammmm much cheap stinking aftershave that I had to move upwind so I could even smell my cigarette-the coffee didn't have a chance...I couldn't imagine being in the crew van or the airplane, jeeze!
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Something for your company's next contract? No MALE FA's!!

Lately I've been bidding the following:

SET MAX SKED
AVOID FA IF = Pole Smoker.
AWARD FA IF Cup Size >= C.
PREFER= Blondes
AWARD FA IF AGE <= 26.
AVOID = Redheads.
AWARD TRIPS

(Nice wish, Eh?) :D
 
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sleddriver77 said:
Something for your company's next contract? No MALE FA's!!

Lately I've been bidding the following:

SET MAX SKED
AVOID FA IF = Pole Smoker.
AWARD FA IF Cup Size >= C.
PREFER= Blondes
AWARD FA IF AGE <= 26.
AVOID = Redheads.
AWARD TRIPS

(Nice wish, Eh?) :D
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Well, it is an imperfect world, isn't it! ;)

Er, well, I've been really lucky. Except for being furloughed from a place that had FA's (before I got on line-and Pace had some good ones from what I saw) I've never had to deal with them as a part of the crew. Now I'm back to freight. I don't much care what color the hair is-I like quantity (er, yes ladies, I do know how to braid it into reins). I do agree with your cup size preferance!
 
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I dunno... I'd concede on the redheads.
 
belchfire said:
(come on guys, go to interior decorating or chef's school and give the gals the cabins back!)
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After you've been holding a line a while, you'll see that the guys, gay or not, usually do a better job than the ladies. As you are well aware, some women can be real biatches. I'll take a gay FA over a biatch any day. You'll agree some day.
 
rogerthat said:
After you've been holding a line a while, you'll see that the guys, gay or not, usually do a better job than the ladies. As you are well aware, some women can be real biatches. I'll take a gay FA over a biatch any day. You'll agree some day.
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Awwww, how sweet! Did your boyfriend make you write that? ;)
 
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sleddriver77 said:
AWARD FA IF Cup Size >= C.
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without something like

AVOID FA if weight >=

is basicaly asking for fatties.

I means its coool if thats what you're into, but...
 
doug_or said:
I means its coool if thats what you're into, but...
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Keep me WARM in the winter, give me SHADE in the summer!! :D

Besides, there are three things I'm required to say as an FO. "Clear Right, You're Right, and I'll take the fat one."
 
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rogerthat said:
If you're in the bidness, then you know I'm right.
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Well, I'd say you're partially correct. We have some pretty serious drama queens, both male and female, 'round these parts. The OLDER male FA's tend to be a lot better to work with, and the women are hit-or-miss regardless of age. But, the young, "flamin'-gay" guys are almost always a pain in the ass. (Pun intended.) :D

Thanks to a few of them, I've heard stuff about that lifestyle I just don't need to know about. Had one break down crying (to rival my two-year old throwing a tantrum) in the middle of a busy terminal when he got a call that his 90-yr old grandma died. (Aww, ya' didn't see that coming, princess? She was friggin' 90!) :rolleyes: Had a few start problems with pax, too. Of course, some of our early-20's Trailer Park Queens aren't a whole lot better in that regard.

Until the companies start paying FA's more, and stop putting the recruiting posters up in gay bars, trailer parks, and nursing homes; things will not improve.
 
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