BA Sandwiches
 

Is there any foundation to the whisper that a management Captain and TSC on A350 has been found guilty of sandwich and coffee misappropriation at Waterside and had been previously advised not to continue said practice..
if so,why is this person still in the Company??

Funnily enough, this rumour went around a few months ago….

Blimey that sounds a bit odd….for a moment I thought we were into a re-run of arguments over the provisioning of pre-flight snacks on Long Haul flights that exercised some in BALPA years ago.

Wait till you hear about the infamous Emirates sandwich misappropriation story

Which one was this? When the Italian captain reported his FO for charitably helping out a driver? Then subsequently had to resign after returning from leave to find that almost every 777 flight deck crew member had stuffed their old sandwiches into his mailbox? A fine parable to recount on CRM recurrent days.

In the 70s at the height of the IRA putting bombs on flight IDs were introduced whena guardsvan captain showed his Barclay card to the security officer in the freight centre; captain reported security who checked the crew over or an other crew over next time, found most of the inflight catering and called in the bill who nicked them. Balpa got involved and a notice to crew appeared in queens stating that we could remove items specifically loaded for us. Twas a time when not only food, crockery and cutlery were served up at dinner parties or in extrémis one captain’s pub (chicken reheated from pax catering) but the damask curtains and cassette players were also being purloined - as to the alcohol that stopped iirc ex Banjul when the whole return bar had been taken off much to the chagrin of the jocks on their way home from a month or two on a dry oil rig,
A few sandwiches ..how the profession has deteriorated..we had three or four course hot meals.

Slow news day? Or do you just like trolling?

If you know something, put it out there. Otherwise the faux snide remarks “I don’t know, do you know?” just make you look like a stirrer.

Haha,I never suggested it was a Ploughman’s being taken.
Corroborated by two Bus Drivers.
A while back a colleague had an inflated expenses claim rejected and subsequently lost one years seniority which carried through his entire career..

14 posts in 17 years?

Found the sandwich scoffer.

It defies belief how such a guy was not weeded out via the elaborate 4 stage selection process :E

One of the problems of modern information regardless of the medium is that there is never enough detail…I am writing this with humorous intent so please do not take this the wrong way. The story which is not being told is potentially intriguing so a few more facts without naming names of course would be welcome. I had a long airline pilot career, fairly well paid although I worked hard as we all did. I was always amazed at the tightness of admittedly a minority of colleagues that would steal crew meals, the sandwich board etc when our salaries made these items easily affordable.

or split the meal bill equally when they had three courses plus wine and a brandy while a new hostess had a salad…

Good point BP, been there…

So what happened to the cheese tray....?

It would appear to have gone by the, ahem, board.:D

Jack

Funnily enough, it seems to have gone the other way now with young crew expecting the older pilots/crew to subsidise their drinking habits in an expensive Instagram friendly cocktail bar. No wonder many of the flt crew end up staying in the exec lounge….😂

My last lot generally the skipper or first officer paid for the drinks with a few notable exceptions one being an Aussie guild member who was known by the Dutch as “crime” as “crime never pays”..we had one guy who gave a third of his salary to charity; a long way from the days when my mrs was on twenty quid gross a week and I was on forty quid gross - time when she got twelve quid lunch allowance in Geneva or Zurich whilst we got around thirty bob for the same trip rumoured that some old fart said it wasn’t becoming for flight crew to handle cash but OK for cabin staff. Some “said” staff could make a hundred quid on a Nice bar and close to that uplifting fags from the Rome mafia.
Different times when many of us had jobs on the side and we ate offal and couldn’t afford to take the family to a restaurant; during my selection process met a skipper who asked how much my starting salary was - should be able to take your family out four or five times a week - gobsmacked as didn’t do that at home in a year after 7 years with the old lot.

I remember when I first started in the 90’s there was a guy on his third divorce and counting, who lived on a canal boat which moved around regularly to avoid any kind of rates. He used to go through the *used* passenger breakfasts in the trolleys picking out uneaten sausages, beans and bits of bacon off the plates to take home. Really. And not for his dog...

Did a trip where the skipper wore a yellow shirt and apologised for the smell as he lived in a van between some trips and fished..smelt better after the night stop which crewing kindly rostered him for on the first day..another one lived in his garage as his wife wouldn’t let him in the house.

Now that we’ve graduated to this I can at least tell the story of a current 777 captain who washes his clothes in the swimming pool downroute. Seems some things never change with BA pilots.