Originally Posted by
labbats
So now a newhire can plan on...
-Paying their own travel and hotel to the interview
-Paying their own hotel for training
-Paying for whatever food the $24/day per diem doesn't cover
-Paying for rental car gas and baggage fees and submitting an expense report to have it returned next month
-Making roughly $2000/mo after taxes first year
-Being in a hotel all month every month with single days off and no way to get home indefinitely
-A looming strike
$2000/month for flying an airbus/md88/757?
It's a wonder that they still get apps. Hope you all can fix this, but it sounds like it's gonna be a battle. After all the TDY, junior folk will just want to get back to a base.