Memeroamdum of Understanding (MOU)
09-16-2016, 08:59 PM
#12
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Originally Posted by ALI G Mmmm
Memorandum****
Recently I left a 91K/135 to go to the airlines. Before I started there, I signed a MOU agreement that if I left within 18 months I had to pay back a pro-rated amount for training. I left 15 months in to better my career to go get an ATP and fly a multi engine plane. My question is... Can I legally get away without paying this back? They claim they will send it over to collections if not paid for. Has anyone on here experienced something like this before?
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Recently I left a 91K/135 to go to the airlines. Before I started there, I signed a MOU agreement that if I left within 18 months I had to pay back a pro-rated amount for training. I left 15 months in to better my career to go get an ATP and fly a multi engine plane. My question is... Can I legally get away without paying this back? They claim they will send it over to collections if not paid for. Has anyone on here experienced something like this before?
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09-16-2016, 11:19 PM
#13
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Originally Posted by DirkDiggler
If they drafted the contract it's probably highly skewed in their favor.
The industry is full of such who defecate in the bed in which they, and everyone else, must lay.
If it were not for such characters, there would be no need for training agreements and contracts.
You should like a brother in arms to the original poster, cut from the same cloth.
09-25-2016, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnBurke
You seriously enter here to ask how you can skate out of honoring your obligations?
You had no problem signing your agreement when it served you. Did you intend to honor it when you signed, or did you gravitate toward dishonesty later on?
Whether you're "bettering your career" or not really has nothing to do with your obligation, other than the fact that it's the price of moving on, if that's what you choose to do.
The industry has developed training agreements precisely because of dishonorable pilots who take the training a company provides, then walk away. Luckily your employer didn't trust you enough to do business on a handshake. That kind of practice is generally only reserved for honest folks.
You had no problem signing your agreement when it served you. Did you intend to honor it when you signed, or did you gravitate toward dishonesty later on?
Whether you're "bettering your career" or not really has nothing to do with your obligation, other than the fact that it's the price of moving on, if that's what you choose to do.
The industry has developed training agreements precisely because of dishonorable pilots who take the training a company provides, then walk away. Luckily your employer didn't trust you enough to do business on a handshake. That kind of practice is generally only reserved for honest folks.
09-25-2016, 05:37 PM
#16
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Originally Posted by jbeauv
I tried to network with this guy at ATP last week, apparently he was not interested. My opinion is that you really cant know too many people in aviation. Just saying
09-29-2016, 07:49 PM
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The OP's situation is not much different than what we saw with the recent real estate bubble. People took advantage of a changing economic situation and short sold houses or simply walked away from mortgages when they were able to pay the original mortgages. Anyone fit that bill?
I don't condone walking away from the contract but seems like a lot of unnecessary pontificating going on.
To the OP,
Realize that if you do renege on your training contract, that information will follow you to any future job interviews. Think about how that information will affect your future employment.
I don't condone walking away from the contract but seems like a lot of unnecessary pontificating going on.
To the OP,
Realize that if you do renege on your training contract, that information will follow you to any future job interviews. Think about how that information will affect your future employment.
09-29-2016, 11:32 PM
#18
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Originally Posted by ALI G Mmmm
Memorandum****
Recently I left a 91K/135 to go to the airlines. Before I started there, I signed a MOU agreement that if I left within 18 months I had to pay back a pro-rated amount for training. I left 15 months in to better my career to go get an ATP and fly a multi engine plane. My question is... Can I legally get away without paying this back? They claim they will send it over to collections if not paid for. Has anyone on here experienced something like this before?
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Recently I left a 91K/135 to go to the airlines. Before I started there, I signed a MOU agreement that if I left within 18 months I had to pay back a pro-rated amount for training. I left 15 months in to better my career to go get an ATP and fly a multi engine plane. My question is... Can I legally get away without paying this back? They claim they will send it over to collections if not paid for. Has anyone on here experienced something like this before?
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..So letīs think about it this way..200+ people in a 50+ million dollar jetliner, piloted by somebody who is not willing to follow the rules..Scary thought..
..Fly safe..
B757
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