Thread: God I sure miss Nwa

I really don't care about the jdpower award either. I just do my best. with lots of pride. I really do care about my passengers and really try to make thier expierence a pleasent one and I don't need an award for it. I worry about people making connections and getting where they need to go and I get upset when they don't. I will probably step down as a redcoat as soon as I can just because it is so restrictive in certain areas but it won't change my work ethic.

Originally Posted by Pago Flyer

However, we're afraid that "time clocks" will appear now that the current regime is very much supported by the unions!

You said it. Between the NMB's ruling and the changing of payroll to "Workbrain" (which computes pay hourly instead of monthly) I don't know how long it will remain this way, though.

I really don't understand the monthly payroll thing. Most people get paid by the hour or are on salary. Why can't dl just say you make x amount per hour?

29palms,

I work in the TOC in ATL. We have not had time clocks since about 1992 and I don't see them coming back anytime soon. I have looked at Workbrain and I haven't seen many differences between it and MIRS.

Hoping you're right

Sorry for the late response. You sound like MANAGEMENT if you work in TOC. I don't know anything about WORKBRAIN or MIRS. Not familiar with that lingo. I am UNION membership paid by the hour. MANAGEMENT gets paid salary. We get paid bi-weekly, not monthly. We must punch clocks. Management doesn't punch clocks. We are UNION. CONTRACT HOURLY employees. Do you know any other better way? (Besides stay at home?)

Originally Posted by kenw83

29palms,

I work in the TOC in ATL. We have not had time clocks since about 1992 and I don't see them coming back anytime soon. I have looked at Workbrain and I haven't seen many differences between it and MIRS.

Workbrain and MIRS are accounting systems. I brought them up because we have received several letters and messages about the changeover. The new accounting system (workbrain) will switch us from semi-monthly to bi-weekly pay checks. That is why I was concerned with time clocks. We mechanics & leads at Delta do not currently punch a time clock, and are certainly not management.

As far as unions go BTDT with IAM-AW. I am so glad to no longer be associated with that group, in fact it is one of the reasons I applied to Delta. Maybe there are better unions out there, for folks who are trapped in them I hope so.

One last point on semi-monthly vs bi-weekly. Bi-weekly keeps your pay level through out the year, while semi-monthly gets you more money up front. (This assumes your pay rate remains the same through out the year.) I'd rather have the money up front, but many people prefer a consistent paycheck.

That's a good gig if you're not punching clocks. Do you have to fill time cards? I had a job once where I had to punch in and punch out for every job I was doing. Then they dropped it, and they made it where if the job was done, you went home with pay but if it was time for overtime, it was payback time and you got no OT. I got on with the airlines just before they started getting their "Payback".

We don't fill them out, but it is tracked. Job instruction cards are clocked in and out in the work center. Log book time is charged as such. That's about all I know. Have to let our lead chime in for more detail than that. Kenw83 you still out there?