DownIn3Green:
I've gone off duty at the hotel at 3 PM for instance, and I leave a fuel load with Dispatch for upload for my 4 AM departure...
It never fails...the oncoming Dispatcher calls me at midnight to confirm the "fuel load"....
That's another 8 hours for me...so says the FAA...
No wonder I didn't "conform" to "Captain Standards" at several FAR 121 Pax/Cargo Operations I've worked at...
Yeaahhhh, no wonder at all, actually.
You answer the phone at midnight when you have a 4 AM departure?! Shame on you, bubba! By the time you got to that level of decision-making, you had obviously been around awhile. Hadn't learnt to unplug the hotel phone and switch the cell phone off yet, eh?
No wonder you didn't conform. With decision-making like that, it tells us a lot about your thought processes. I'd sit down and re-examine them if I were you.
No one interrupts my crew rest. No one. It is not their prerogative nor option.