Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
Can you imagine going to any other new job-required training, and the company says "Pick up the tab for your hotel. If you don't like it...leave."
I thought it was chickensh#t when I got hired years ago, and it is chickensh#t now.
Yes someone will chime in, "what are you willing to give up so new hires don't have to pay for a hotel in training?"
Answer: not a thing. It has zero to do with the contract and everything to do with decent leadership on the company side. It is a sad day when we even have to discuss the pros and cons of new hires (who make less than anyone else at the airline) at any industry having to pay for their own lodging during required training.
But it has unfortunately been this way for decades.
I guess that is a fair point... to a point. You said yourself, it has zero to do with the contract. Instead of trying to convince all of us that it is chicken****, why don't you try to convince management? I get the frustration of your post, but bringing it up and interjecting the contract, even viscerally, is a total non sequitur. And as someone else said, I doubt seriously that it will keep pilots from coming to DAL.