OK, who's going to do it??
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OK, who's going to do it??
How many selfish low lifes are there that are going to go sick on Christmas Day? Yeah, that's right, take on the job knowing that it's a 365 day per year, 24 hour per day profession but still only think of yourself and stuff your fellow work mates. If you go sick on Christmas Day, you're nothing but a selfish, miserable parasite.
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Im on call Christmas day and Boxing day this year. Hopefully I dont get called but if I do, thats life as they say.
I would rather get called in to do the morning shift than someone who has young children, because thats the best part of Christmas is watching them open their christmas presents in the morning.
Apparently the late flight on Christmas day only has 4 passengers booked on it, so they will probably cancel it.
I would rather get called in to do the morning shift than someone who has young children, because thats the best part of Christmas is watching them open their christmas presents in the morning.
Apparently the late flight on Christmas day only has 4 passengers booked on it, so they will probably cancel it.
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haha thats all i got to say! call in sick who cares the company doesnt give you anything extra for working christmas!! except you missing out on spending time with your family and friends screw them that what i say if they gave me a decent incentive to work i would but paying for a crappy standby that costs you £150 out of your pocket and some allowance increase that wouldnt even buy you a burger on the hotel menu! go sick all virgin crew go sick am i sure many will!!! happy christmas to all!!!
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If I dived into a swimming pool full of nipples I would come up sucking my thumb......luck has never really blessed me,I'm in Christmas day and flying through the night New Years Eve into New Years Day
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There is a good side to this I'll save money buying drinks for people I won't see to next New Year and I won't wake up with a hang over.Just the smell of a cooked breakfast as I walk out of the crew rest area
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Who the hell flies through New Year's eve!!?. My duty free P.A. will be ''If you would like to get a life they are for sale from our duty free bar ''!!.
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Anyway may I wish all you ppruners a great Christmas and New Year.
WTDWL.
.There is a good side to this I'll save money buying drinks for people I won't see to next New Year and I won't wake up with a hang over.Just the smell of a cooked breakfast as I walk out of the crew rest area
.Who the hell flies through New Year's eve!!?. My duty free P.A. will be ''If you would like to get a life they are for sale from our duty free bar ''!!.
.Anyway may I wish all you ppruners a great Christmas and New Year.
WTDWL.
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I am off for Xmas thank god... I was working last year and had a 3 day layover in Venice.... lovely meal in a michelin graded restaurant at Lake Garda.... In Berlin on 30th then AMS for new years eve.... nice variety (not)....
So Iain... are you flying now?? Hope you are?!
Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy Flying New Year
Love Hottowel xxxxx
So Iain... are you flying now?? Hope you are?!
Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy Flying New Year
Love Hottowel xxxxx
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Thanks virgincrew99 for your post, which is almost identical in content and message to every other post that you have made since joining us at PPRuNe - and so refreshingly free of punctuation and grammar apart from punctuation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Normally I wouldn't contribute to a thread dealing with domestic matters in another company - however, on this occasion, your post has irritated me enough to do so - probably unwisely and I'll probably regret it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are advising your colleagues to report sick at Christmas: This will inevitably result, at best, in another person's Christmas being messed up, and at worst, in several hundred passengers as well as their crews having their Christmas ruined in some way. In short, your suggestion is irresponsible, childish and selfish
It is your perogative to post bile about Virgin on PPRuNe (provided you observe the forum rules) even though the manner of your posting reveals far more about you than about the airline. However, there is a line, and you have just crossed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On behalf of all of those crew out there who will be called out this year, to cover the social sickness of those such as yourself - May 2006 offer you everything that you deserve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Normally I wouldn't contribute to a thread dealing with domestic matters in another company - however, on this occasion, your post has irritated me enough to do so - probably unwisely and I'll probably regret it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are advising your colleagues to report sick at Christmas: This will inevitably result, at best, in another person's Christmas being messed up, and at worst, in several hundred passengers as well as their crews having their Christmas ruined in some way. In short, your suggestion is irresponsible, childish and selfish
It is your perogative to post bile about Virgin on PPRuNe (provided you observe the forum rules) even though the manner of your posting reveals far more about you than about the airline. However, there is a line, and you have just crossed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On behalf of all of those crew out there who will be called out this year, to cover the social sickness of those such as yourself - May 2006 offer you everything that you deserve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Disco's working Christmas Eve eve, on standby for the big day then back in @ 5am Boxing Day
Still look on the bright side, I could be working New Years Eve & then @ 5am on New Years Day.
Oh wait........just remembered that I am
(Much muttering under breath)
Still look on the bright side, I could be working New Years Eve & then @ 5am on New Years Day.
Oh wait........just remembered that I am
(Much muttering under breath)
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Enema Bandit's Dad well your posting is full of Christmas Cheer!!
Although I slightly agree with your posting I wouldn't have used the wording you did!
And Virgincrew99 do Virgin a favour well in fact do the whole airline industry a favour and resign. Your post is full of negative angry content.
If it makes you that unhappy work for a different company or leave Virgin. It really is as simple as that. Get a job in the outside world and see how you like it.
I went through a patch of disliking flying with the airline I am with at the moment so went of and tried something else in my free time and let me tell you it left me feeling humble and grateful for what I have.
Although I slightly agree with your posting I wouldn't have used the wording you did!
And Virgincrew99 do Virgin a favour well in fact do the whole airline industry a favour and resign. Your post is full of negative angry content.
If it makes you that unhappy work for a different company or leave Virgin. It really is as simple as that. Get a job in the outside world and see how you like it.
I went through a patch of disliking flying with the airline I am with at the moment so went of and tried something else in my free time and let me tell you it left me feeling humble and grateful for what I have.
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I actualy don't mind working Christmas, you get heaps of sympathy and appreciation off the pax. They are usually in a jolly mood because they are on their way to meet family and freinds and realise you are missing an important day because you are stuck flying. And best of all my mother makes sure the family have a dinner to make up for the fact that I couldn't be home for Christmas.
Merry Christmas everybody and enjoy whatever you end up doing!
Merry Christmas everybody and enjoy whatever you end up doing!
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Hey guys! I'm flying over Christmas and I can't wait! I have my musical antlers and my sparkly tinsel to stick all over me!! I get to spend Christmas with my friends in New York, I love my job!!!!
Virgincrew99, do every crewmember at Virgin a favour and **** off!! I hope I never fly with you as I'm sure it would be like pulling teeth! Life is too short, why not make your new years resolution to leave VS and find another job to whinge about!
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
KTP xxx
Virgincrew99, do every crewmember at Virgin a favour and **** off!! I hope I never fly with you as I'm sure it would be like pulling teeth! Life is too short, why not make your new years resolution to leave VS and find another job to whinge about!
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
KTP xxx
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haha thats all i got to say! call in sick who cares the company doesnt give you anything extra for working christmas!! except you missing out on spending time with your family and friends screw them that what i say if they gave me a decent incentive to work i would but paying for a crappy standby that costs you £150 out of your pocket and some allowance increase that wouldnt even buy you a burger on the hotel menu! go sick all virgin crew go sick am i sure many will!!! happy christmas to all!!!
When you applied for your job, you took it on knowing that it was a 365 day-a-year thing. No airline ever makes any suggestion to the contrary. WHY should the airline have to pay you more to work over Christmas? It's in your contract that you may have to so any refusal to do so is a breach of your working agreement.
If your company start paying you more to work Christmas, where will YOU stop before you're happy? Will you need an extra payment to work Easter Sunday? New Year's Eve? How about Thanksgiving? And your birthday is worth atleast an extra couple of hundred, surely.
I feel sorry for the people who have to work with you. If this is the kind of attitude you extend at CHRISTMAS TIME, you must be the real spawn of satan in the middle of July when the sun is shining and you want to be on the beach.
I wonder why standby costs you £150.00. Is it because you live away from base? Well, that's your decision. If it's that terrible, why not think about moving down south to be nearer work? And don't come the old "cos I couldn't afford anything as nice as I have here in bitchyville", that's just what your colleagues have to deal with EVERY SINGLE DAY.
One thing I'm truly thankful for this Christmas - the fact that I don't have to work with people like you!!!
Merry christmas.
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In an ideal world, my friend. Sadly, as mentioned before, different countries and cultures celebrate things differently. This is a global industry and as much as it would be fantastic to have New Year off each year, it's just not practical. If you're working, I hope you enjoy yourself and are able to make up for being away when you get home!
All the best.
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Hahahaha... sort of!
I was rostered for Christmas in Isolo, Lagos, Nigeria. That would be the place they put the hose if they ever need to give Planet Earth an enema.
Then I lost my job. Now I am off to go skiing in the Tirol, Austria. So, all you poor devils who have to work over Christmas can envy me while laughing at my jobless status. Back to Earth with a bump, indeed.
I don't know how to feel about all this, whether to laugh or cry, except that I plan to enjoy my Christmas with my family rather than sat down there in Lagos wondering what the point of it all is.
I have to fly Big Airways back from Munich to London on New Year's Day. I want to see every one in uniform standing tall, bright-eyed and cheery, not sullen and hung-over like a close friend of mine often appeared when rostered on a holiday!
Meanwhile, cheer up! Think about how little traffic there will be to cope with as you ply the airways or the aisles. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Then I lost my job. Now I am off to go skiing in the Tirol, Austria. So, all you poor devils who have to work over Christmas can envy me while laughing at my jobless status. Back to Earth with a bump, indeed.
I don't know how to feel about all this, whether to laugh or cry, except that I plan to enjoy my Christmas with my family rather than sat down there in Lagos wondering what the point of it all is.
I have to fly Big Airways back from Munich to London on New Year's Day. I want to see every one in uniform standing tall, bright-eyed and cheery, not sullen and hung-over like a close friend of mine often appeared when rostered on a holiday!
Meanwhile, cheer up! Think about how little traffic there will be to cope with as you ply the airways or the aisles. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.