Originally Posted by
Mr Good Cat
1) They haven’t given minimum days off and the rest standby. Again, maybe that’s base dependent due to spare numbers. I don’t know who told you standbys were done as a deterrent to stay full time… sounds made up!
I wasn't told this - but comments like the following make it sound like the number of crew on standby is very over established in the winter. Can't really think of another reason why they'd do it...
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Definitely a lot of standby in the winter, but being used is rare. If you can manage to live full time near your base you can pretty much go about life as normal? But I can understand that for those who need to travel to secondary accommodation near their base, lots of standby is a pain'
I'd feel a bit hard done by if I'd taken a month off at half pay, and then speak to a full time colleague and find out he'd only worked a couple of days!