Steward losing his Sat $$$

[brownIEman]

Most part timers don't want to go driving, they see the BS we go through.

On the other hand he ed up a gravy train

I never had a problem getting air candidates, but everywhere is different and that was several years ago so...

I just can't understand how he could be dense enough not to see the result that would come from pushing the 8 gaurantee in a 4 hour operation.

 

[reginald95]

Years ago I would come in for an easy 3hr-4hr OT run of Saturday air. His was before any SAT ground. They didn’t have enough air drivers for Saturday so I had to come in. It was easy money but I got burned out eventually.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I never had a problem getting air candidates, but everywhere is different and that was several years ago so...

I just can't understand how he could be dense enough not to see the result that would come from pushing the 8 gaurantee in a 4 hour operation.

Lots if distrust here.
Just like they have air drivers doing ground work and threaten then with a layoff if they file.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

 

[brownIEman]

Lots if distrust here.
Just like they have air drivers doing ground work and threaten then with a layoff if they file.

Not cool. That's shady crap I'd never pull even if instructed to. Air driver runs ground (at my direction, none of this "I ran the air you gave me and someone handed me this ground ARS package so pay me top ground all day") she gets top ground pay for the day.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Not cool. That's shady crap I'd never pull even if instructed to. Air driver runs ground (at my direction, none of this "I ran the air you gave me and someone handed me this ground ARS package so pay me top ground all day") she gets top ground pay for the day.

Im not talking about one ARS package

 

[Poop Head]

Not cool. That's shady crap I'd never pull even if instructed to. Air driver runs ground (at my direction, none of this "I ran the air you gave me and someone handed me this ground ARS package so pay me top ground all day") she gets top ground pay for the day.

Are you saying that air driving is women's work?

 

[brownIEman]

Im not talking about one ARS package

Oh I know your weren't. I just added that as a qualifier because I've experienced it before.
I've seen what you're talking about as well, and refused to be part of it.

 

[1989]

Are you saying that air driving is women's work?

Welllllll.....real men don’t do it. Lol

 

[brownIEman]

Are you saying that air driving is women's work?

Ha, no, that's 22.4's.

I kid, I kid. No I just like to mix my use of pronouns. Although now that you mention it, some of my better sat air drivers were women.

 

[Poop Head]

though now that you mention it, some of my better sat air drivers were women.

That's actually true. And especially true for preloading.

 

[brownmonster]

Could have made said drivers stay for 8 hours. That would have nipped it.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Oh I know your weren't. I just added that as a qualifier because I've experienced it before.
I've seen what you're talking about as well, and refused to be part of it.

What they did here was. Ground drivers sweep the drop box so around 4 o'clock or so

 

[brownIEman]

Could have made said drivers stay for 8 hours. That would have nipped it.

Yeah but labor, HR, the stewards and BAs all get they're panties in a wad when I start directing drivers to wash my car, fold my linnens and shine my shoes, and don't get me started on the back rubs and pedicures...

 

[rod]

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[bumped]

Saturday air should have been run by air drivers from the get go. He was correcting an oversight brought about by the fact that no one at his level has 2 seconds to spend worrying about Saturday air unless something forces their attention on it. Something like 20 ground drivers who've gotten used to the gravy OT of sat air deciding it would be cool to get paid 8 hours of OT for 4 hours of work every Saturday.

The idea he is somehow spiting his face by correcting a situation that frankly he should get his ass kicked for allowing to go on in the first place is just off.

I've been hearing the excuse for 25 years that we're short drivers. This is not an accident. Being short drivers is/was being done on purpose. Its not a valid excuse for me to care anymore.

 

[brownIEman]

I've been hearing the excuse for 25 years that we're short drivers. This is not an accident. Being short drivers is/was being done on purpose. Its not a valid excuse for me to care anymore.

Ok.

However, this thread is not about being short drivers. It's about an operation correcting the shortage of drivers.
My sidebars have mostly been addressing the concerns of people who think the correcting of the driver shortage was actually a nefarious retaliation against drivers who had been using the aforementioned shortage to bank plenty of overtime.

 

[542thruNthru]

they’ll be 22.4’s by february

right to work state, none of them have joined the union

So really this was all ending by February anyways.

 

[TearsInRain]

Could have made said drivers stay for 8 hours. That would have nipped it.

nah that guy would lay down in a latrine pit for 8hrs if it meant making an easy buck

 

[Brown287]

Before Saturday ground we routinely had FT drivers working for extra OT. We also had part timers working as utility drivers learning the ropes.

As far as I know seeing as out side of the few designated 22.3’s the rest were all volunteers and only intitled to hours worked. Could be a regional thing but in two and a half decades this was never an issue.

Unfortunately in life sometimes rocking the boat doesn’t work in your favor. Don’t know this steward personally but knowing the ones I have in my career I’m pretty sure that there’s plenty of (non-contractual) circumstances that he was more than ok with.