Hello again everyone
I hope you have all had a good day flying, remember to sell, sell, sell. Also, please remember the fantastic new items that can be found inside the July/August edition of the easyShop Brochure. What with the school holidays being just a couple of weeks away this is a fantastic time for us to increase SPH and earn lot's of commision for ourselves......
ARRGGGHHHH!
Sorry about that, I was just briefly converted to the orange side. Now back in the real world
TM if you are reading this, get your arse on an aircraft, operate as a standard crew member (Number 2, 3 or 4 - most certainly not number 1 and you can not cop out by being a SNY) for a month on minimum rest doing 6x4 sectors in a week and see how much you like it. Then send out an grovelling email to crew beging for our forgiveness.
And TM if you end up on my aircraft at some point, don't be surprised if we encounter some turbulence during the service when I am near you. You can expect to wear the contents of the ice bucket and gash bag!
I spoke to a union rep at LGW today regarding the 6 and 3 pattern. She assures me that the company can not just go ahead and implement this without crew consultation. It appears that TM might have overstepped the mark with her email and managed to piss off half the flying community.
So, can everyone here please make a point of mentioning to their colleagues that this is not a cut and dry deal. The company can not put a significant change through like this without our 'approval'. Please encourage your colleagues to join the union. If you don't like the idea of paying the union your subs month in month out, you should at least join until this is sorted. The more members we have, the more chance we have of stopping this happening.
Also, remember we all love to bitch and moan, but you have to bitch and moan at the right people. Bitch to your union reps, let them have your feedback so that they can put together a good case for fighting this.
If we work together we can get this changed, if we just bitch to ourselves, nothing will change for the better!
(Incidently, my opening on here was a typical sort of LGW ACCM type email - the other types would be moaning and threatening 'performance issues......')