Ask And You Shall Receive

OK! So, I'm here at the airport again working with flight attendants on how to use the new bidding system (for those of you that care, bidding for our schedules is our life. If we screw up, there goes one's month). How difficult is it to tell a computer what you want to fly?

Well, let me tell you. For some, it's like learning a new language, which in essence it is. However, trying to put what's in your head into computer-ese has been a big challenge. However, being the human go between, let me tell you, IT'S COMPLETELY MIND BOGGLING!!

Comments made:

"Well, I want weekends off, but don't mind flying maybe one weekend a month so long as the trip is 2-days long, gets in early enough so I can watch little Bobbie make a fool of himself playing T-ball"

"I don't care what I fly, so long I don't have to get up too early in the morning, if they're not turns, and I don't have to fly to Las Vegas, San Jose, or anywhere in Mexico. Oh did I mention that I don't like flying the MD-80 and all-nighters, but I'll fly anything!!"

Hearing 8 hours of the numerous possibilities of what flight attendants want to fly can drive the most computer saavy person postal.

I'm here with my other counterpart (Let's call her Cyndi) and she's commented to me that she's dreaming this bidding stuff in her sleep. It's getting to the point where we can't speak in English anymore, and more in this foreign bidding language we need to learn.

1) Bobbie, if Bobbie cries at 1800 , if Bobbie is hungry at 1900 followed by Missie sleeping at 2000 if Missie has doll named Bambi

2) Prefer off Sunday, if spouse has rash followed by spouse has navel lint, if spouse forgets Bobbies diaper change at 700

3) Forget 1

4) Redo from where ever because I'm at the point where I don't know what I'm saying

5) Clear Schedule and Restart

Sounding a bit foreign??? This is my world for the last couple of days. I don't expect any of you to understand. In simple words, GET ME OUT OF HERE!!