Narrative:

Upon requesting gate information via ACARS; we received a voice contact requested. I contacted ops inbound and was told the first officer (me) needed to call scheduling. After the required tasks were completed I did so and was informed that I was now operating flight XXXX to elp. I acknowledged this and started my way to the new gate. It was a four plus hour flight inbound and I stopped to use the restroom. When I arrived at the new gate; I was meet by the agent who asked where I had been ('we have been waiting on you sign this'). It was the release siting on her counter awaiting my signature prior to even being granted access to the aircraft. I explained to her I had just landed and needed to stop for personal reasons. As I walked down the jetway; I felt as if I had done something wrong. There was another agent who radioed in 'he is here now.' once I got my bags stowed and started my flow; I was interrupted by another call from scheduling asking where I was at. I told them I was in the plane trying to get ready for departure. The response I got was 'the agent called them.' at this point; I immediately went into the red. I felt as if I was being accused of delaying a flight that was already delayed to wait on my arrival. I immediately let scheduling know I felt like I was being pressured. The scheduler apologized immediately and I went on with my duties. When the captain came back after doing my required walkaround; I asked why the confusion. He replied he was not sure but they were going to start overhead paging me until he told them that was not needed as he knew I had just gotten in. I am writing this because I feel that our recent training pointed out some real concerns with how things can go badly really quickly and this is one of those situations where some communication between scheduling and operations would prevent a crew member from hurrying his or duties from pressure outside the cockpit which was no fault of the crew member. We operated the flight without incident but I feel it is important to point out the we left 23 minutes after I blocked in with both crew members and as aircraft change.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A B737 First Officer reported he felt considerable pressure to rush through his duties after a reassignment to another flight.

Narrative: Upon requesting gate information via ACARS; we received a voice contact requested. I contacted Ops inbound and was told the First Officer (me) needed to call Scheduling. After the required tasks were completed I did so and was informed that I was now operating Flight XXXX to ELP. I acknowledged this and started my way to the new gate. It was a four plus hour flight inbound and I stopped to use the restroom. When I arrived at the new gate; I was meet by the Agent who asked where I had been ('We have been waiting on you sign this'). It was the Release siting on her counter awaiting my signature prior to even being granted access to the aircraft. I explained to her I had just landed and needed to stop for personal reasons. As I walked down the jetway; I felt as if I had done something wrong. There was another Agent who radioed in 'he is here now.' Once I got my bags stowed and started my flow; I was interrupted by another call from Scheduling asking where I was at. I told them I was in the plane trying to get ready for departure. The response I got was 'the Agent called them.' At this point; I immediately went into the Red. I felt as if I was being accused of delaying a flight that was already delayed to wait on my arrival. I immediately let Scheduling know I felt like I was being pressured. The Scheduler apologized immediately and I went on with my duties. When the Captain came back after doing my required walkaround; I asked why the confusion. He replied he was not sure but they were going to start overhead paging me until he told them that was not needed as he knew I had just gotten in. I am writing this because I feel that our recent training pointed out some real concerns with how things can go badly really quickly and this is one of those situations where SOME communication between Scheduling and Operations would prevent a Crew Member from hurrying his or duties from pressure outside the cockpit which was no fault of the Crew Member. We operated the flight without incident but I feel it is important to point out the we left 23 minutes after I blocked in with both Crew Members and as aircraft change.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.