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Thanks to all the SOB's who called in sick on Christmas Eve/Christmas...I hope ya choke on your ham.

The pleasure will truly be on their side. No go fly, smile and be happy that you have a job.

Enjoy your flight turkey :p :oh:

...ummm, what if you are SICK...? :bored:

I'd thank the company that gave too many guys unpaid leave over Xmas and NY guaranteeing rubbish rosters for others.:mad:

Sickness rate needs to go higher if they are still handing out unpaid leave. If you got called out off Christmas and are upset about it, you should have called sick too.

When, oh when, will we learn?

It's their prerogative to do so just as it's your prerogative to do the same or, choose to be the faithful company employee for that nil pay raise.

Enjoy that reserve call out with the extra dinner allowance that "Denly dunno how" gives you. :rolleyes:

As Trafalgar says, [quote]"what if you are SICK...?"[quote]

I have gone sick on Xmas day in the past because.............I was .......sick. :uhoh:

I did ring up the poor bugger called out and apologized to him.

**** happens.

Anyone seen any managers leading from the front and working over Christmas?

Capt Dart

Yes…. DCP(A)!!!!

Well done PG.

Xmas day has always been a favourite day of mine to leg a sickie. It's almost, dare I say, a god given right! I have done it many times, and will do so many more times into the future. As for passenger and company inconvenience, stiff **** really, it's all about me first on this special day of the year :ok:

I agree with Nitpicker **** happens deal with it and do your job.
Life is a bit short to worry if it was real sicky or not.
my 10 cents worth.

Good on ya boyz.. Cash it all in yourself.. Standby call outs could just have called sick themselves instead of wasting air - whining like little chickens :ok:

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Oh, Captain Jack. What an absolute arsehole you really are! This post provides wonderful fuel for your employer's fire....

I think this guy is bitchin far too much....most guys are well aware of xmas/new year and tend to only go out when "TRULY ill" instead of just feeling slightly off.

Plus you do have to factor in that everyone is extremely pissed off over the pay issue.....

As for PG working doesnt surprise me.......does anyone want him around on xmas day? :rolleyes:

Wow, thanks for that. I can assure you that my employer is tenfold the asshole I will ever be. Airlines and their executive management care only for themselves and their own well being. So why shouldn't I? Is there some unwritten code of ethics that says an asshole who works 9-5 and receives an excessive salary, bonus and other perks whilst caring about himself should be allowed to do so while I don't? I don't think so. In my airline I follow the lead of my executives, hence I believe in this - "It's not what I can do for my airline, it's what my airline can do for me" :=
If they want me to go back to the old days where respect, value, honesty and integrity ruled a business then the pompous turds in my company will have to take the lead in that, then I shallow follow. Otherwise it's business as usual for me and I shall continue to put myself first :ok:

Actually Jack the unwritten code of ethics says that you do not screw your fellow crew. We can all like or dislike management as we see fit, but the niceties to fellow crew is all we have left. Lets not lose that one as well.

Geh with all due respect

That is one of the most amusing posts Ive seen in a long while. Crew screwing crew is a national pastime at CX. What you described left the building a very long time ago.

Where can I start…G days, roster manipulation, volunteering, and sooo on...

Looking at another Prune thread, I'd guess some of THEM would have been glad of a Christmas callout. :}

I've never thrown a fake sickie but, when it did happen, it was a biggie, and CX picked up the tab for over four months.

If you want to be home for Christmas why not request a trip that gets back on the 23rd or 24th? Every roster has unpopular trips so just bid for, or request one of those, you get the 25th off and no one gets called out. Is that so difficult?


CactusJack - you will reap what you sow.

parabellum:

I take it you also never request trips over Christmas or else you would understand the impossibility of what you suggest. In fact I expect you don't work for CX.

parabellum is clueless. :ugh:

Correct. Sorry to hear you cannot even request or bid for a trip, worked for a couple of majors and never had that problem myself. Used to pick an unpopular trip and request it way in advance, a limited number of requests a year were allowed in both airlines and I understand that is the 'norm' in most major carriers, though obviously not CX.



Yes Curtain Rod, where CX is concerned you are correct, I was just suggesting a solution that works just about every where else in the world but, unbeknown to me, not in CX. In forty odd years I have never before come across an airline that didn't have some kind of request system.

Cx does indeed have a request system, however, for no apparent reason you can't request a trip over the the Xmas/new year period. :ugh::ugh::ugh:

Parabellum, enjoying your **** sandwich? Now you reap what you sew!

Geez Jack, not too long ago you were telling us all about how the company you now work for was so superior to your old one........ What happened?:ok:

Not Cx but one has to be careful. I was GF. Not even SBY over Xmas but because an ozzy went sick on Xmas eve ( not tarring ALL)......oh, OK, yes I am............but, my little Kuwait turnround was changed to Casablanca. This involved getting there on Xmas eve and staying there for 5 days. Gorgeous Morrocan C/A's went home. FO & the boys went off hunting. I was left alone in the Sauna with my Xmas Sherry dreaming of a white Christmas (no racism implied)................oh, ok, yes it is. BUT, I had this wonderful Xmas card that said, on the front.......'Merry Christmas, Jesus loves you". On the inside, it said......."Everyone else thinks you are a C--t" ! So, after my miserable Xmas, I slipped that into the sicko's mailbox only to discover, later, that he was not guilty. Similar name but, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG !

Yes, I was taken outside & beaten around for a bit. Slitty eyes, puffed up lips & still managed a ....."Sowee". Be careful outhere guys. Some people really DO go sick on Xmas eve.

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You talk in meaningless riddles Jack, oh yes, 'sew' is what you do with a needle and cotton, 'sow' is what you do with seed. http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...lies/smile.gif

Poach Monkey
Jeez Poach Monkey, still singing the praises of your idol, Branson? Still licking the boots of your superiors in the senior flight management team?

Para bell-end
Woohoo, a wordsmith!!! Here is a riddle for you Parabell-end; You soak cork :ok:

Yes Cx has a request system over Christmas. It's called take leave without pay. Gets highest priority. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Ahh Gordomac!!
You were a star in Air Europe and I love your occasional posts! You be careful out there and keep 'playing' the piano!
Happy New Year!:ok:

To those who gave sensible replies thanks.http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...ies/thumbs.gif


Think I might be inclined to go for the leave without pay option but only as a last resort and only if it was a very important Christmas!


When a 'singly' (again!),in 1992 I volunteered to fly Christmas, often a better time down route, strolled into the bar in LAX around 18.30 Christmas Day, very full of happy crew, mainly ANZ. Found myself chatting to an ANZ FO, when he realised I was on my own, (my crew, being all Singaporean, had all gone to ground!), he said, "Oh, well we have a room booked for dinner, expecting 35 but only about 25 are here, I'll ask the Chief, (Cabin Crew) who has arranged it, cost you about $25", great, I thought! FO to CC Chief, "Can this guy from SIA, on his own, join us?", CC Chief, "Is he Flight Deck?", "Yes", says FO, "Well no he f..king can't!".


I've heard ANZ can be a bit like that! (Or they were, back then).http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...lies/smile.gif