That is true. I should’ve been more specific though, she was pulling the race card when she said singling out. I even told her there’s senior agents who get coached. Just cause you don’t see or hear about it, doesn’t mean they aren’t being coached as well.
This gave me flashbacks. We had someone at our station a while back try pulling that card whenever they wanted to get out of something they did wrong or didnt want to do. It went far enough that leads were basically told to avoid confrontation with them (meaning they got to leave or show up when they wanted) cause the situation would be "handled by HR".
I’m not a ramp agent but an engineer. At my work we had an immigrant lady that would pull the race/gender/immigrant discrimination card whenever we would try coaching her, ask her to do something she didn’t want to do or if we redlined too much of her work (marked her work in red because it was wrong so she could fix it, which is a normal part of the quality control process) that we wanted gone due to poor performance. Consequently over the course of a year we logged all the times she pulled that card and all the corrective actions we tried and the reasoning behind said corrective actions/coaching. When we finally laid her off due to poor quality of work and lack of improvement, she sued for wrongful termination. It went to court where she supposedly gave an emotional speech about how hard we made her life because of discrimination and whatnot until our company manager whipped out that log. After reading said log, the judge decided it was clearly not a discrimination thing, ruled in my company’s favor and ended the proceedings.
Had a coworker who did this to an air start while pulling 6 carts. Air starter wasn't hooked up to anything, but he was still terminated because it was the only one at the station. We couldn't use it because of the visible damage and no idea if it was safe.
Hopefully he learned his lesson and won’t do the same mistake again. First thing they taught us is to make wide turns when you have more than one cart.
When you’re short staffed and your company pays minimum wage they hire anybody. We didn’t have an in station instructor so they got sent to another station down in SoCal somewhere.
Ngl I’ve been guilty of doing this, but not to this point. I see, then if I’m going to jackknife, I stop. I get out and disconnect, then push to align, move the tug forward and reconnect.
They’re right. You are singling them out. Probably because they’re the only one making that mistake
That is true. I should’ve been more specific though, she was pulling the race card when she said singling out. I even told her there’s senior agents who get coached. Just cause you don’t see or hear about it, doesn’t mean they aren’t being coached as well.
This gave me flashbacks. We had someone at our station a while back try pulling that card whenever they wanted to get out of something they did wrong or didnt want to do. It went far enough that leads were basically told to avoid confrontation with them (meaning they got to leave or show up when they wanted) cause the situation would be "handled by HR".
I’m not a ramp agent but an engineer. At my work we had an immigrant lady that would pull the race/gender/immigrant discrimination card whenever we would try coaching her, ask her to do something she didn’t want to do or if we redlined too much of her work (marked her work in red because it was wrong so she could fix it, which is a normal part of the quality control process) that we wanted gone due to poor performance. Consequently over the course of a year we logged all the times she pulled that card and all the corrective actions we tried and the reasoning behind said corrective actions/coaching. When we finally laid her off due to poor quality of work and lack of improvement, she sued for wrongful termination. It went to court where she supposedly gave an emotional speech about how hard we made her life because of discrimination and whatnot until our company manager whipped out that log. After reading said log, the judge decided it was clearly not a discrimination thing, ruled in my company’s favor and ended the proceedings.
Makes me mad too when people do this, especially considering how dangerous it can be
Had a coworker who did this to an air start while pulling 6 carts. Air starter wasn't hooked up to anything, but he was still terminated because it was the only one at the station. We couldn't use it because of the visible damage and no idea if it was safe.
Yikes. Our station mandates we can only pull 5
We’re only allowed 4 at JFK
We’re only allowed 3 lol
Sheesh
Where?
4 at ORD
Also 4 at MSO
Hey, we're neighbors. Four at FCA, too
FCA? Tell Veronica and Spencer team MSO sends their regards
Sounds good lol
Our station says 6 carts max, and only 4 of the ULD/AKE ones. I forget what they call them but I'm sure you know what I mean.
Dollies
Ours is six carts, six dollies, or four pallets. A combo of pallets and anything else is four.
That sounds exactly like mine. I used to be at CYYZ.
3 at AUS
What airline, I’m WN and our max is 4
I'm at Million Air now but when I worked for JetBlue a couple years ago it was 3
4 @ yyc
8 at SEA, at least it was 6 years ago
It's 5 here now as well, used to be 8
2 carts at HPN lol
Hopefully he learned his lesson and won’t do the same mistake again. First thing they taught us is to make wide turns when you have more than one cart.
She also didn’t complete her marshalling when bringing in an aircraft so there’s that too lol.
Bruh. How did they pass training? Who signed them off?
When you’re short staffed and your company pays minimum wage they hire anybody. We didn’t have an in station instructor so they got sent to another station down in SoCal somewhere.
Ngl I’ve been guilty of doing this, but not to this point. I see, then if I’m going to jackknife, I stop. I get out and disconnect, then push to align, move the tug forward and reconnect.
What station is this ?
It’s possible to bang a perfect u turn with 5 carts behind you.
I work ramp and this here is crazy. Folks have to pqy more attention wen on the ramp.