Rostering - is it a joke?
If it is a joke, I don't find it funny.
Next week I have my route check. I'm going to an airport I've never been to, which is a visual approach, at night. These things don't worry me cause I can prepare for them. What is really P ing me off is that I have not flown in 16 days, and after my rout check will not fly again for another 20 days when I will be expected to fly 14 sectors in 4 days. After wearing holes in the knees of my trousers today by begging for just one flight to keep me from rusting up completely I was informed that one of my 5 days of work this month had been subbed to a different fleet in the company. The woman on the end of the phone thought I should be overjoyed to have so much time off, but can't she see that I need to go to work to eat the crew meals, cause I can't afford to eat at home with the money I still owe for my training.
So all you people who been there, done that, please tell me; are rostering people really evil, or just ignorant?
Any rostering people reading this, if you have a good reason for reducing me to tears each month please tell me.
Rant over now.
Just had to get it off my chest.