Originally Posted by
TeamRamRod
I realize that almost everyone has debt that CHOSE this career. Myself included. I never once said it was great, or that we couldn't be better compensated during training. What I did say is that you can budget for 3 months to get thru training pay with minimal damage. I did, and still am, making $700 student loan payments and $150 car payments on top of rent for a house, which my parents don't live in. (not a crash pad as someone mentioned above)
No, I didn't have to go donate blood and semen to eat ramen noodles thru training. Some "huge expenses" people have are by choice. That $50,000 BMW isn't a necessity. Nor is the child support on 4 kids with 3 wives. I never said the training budget is lucrative, but it's doable.
As far as "comparing" TSA to Delta. That wasn't my intention. Just throwing out one example of a company that doesn't pay for any hotel during training. As someone else stated, apparently Frontier doesn't either. This place turns into the "Let's Bash Trash States!" forum about how subpar EVERYTHING is here compared to other places. All I did was throw out one company that doesn't provide a hotel during training. Until recent, CPZ didn't either, and nobody complained because they got to fly a super cool 175 after they were done!
I, like many others, are 100% open to alternative ways of doing things. But I'll be damned if I'm going to do something on line because the guy sitting next to me says "well this is how we did it at XYZ and it worked better, so I'm going to do it this way." I'm not going to get violated flying another airline's SOP because 50% of the flight deck thinks it's a better way to do it. You're exactly right, the CQFOs are a permanent part of TSA, and we welcome them with open arms. But accept the fact that you (not you in particular) are not at ENY, XJT, RAH, or 9E anymore and there may be a different way of doing things now. Under normal and 99% of abnormal operations, the TRANS STATES SOP keeps yours and my ass from getting violated, so we need to follow it. Not XJTs, not ENYs.
And as for tom11011, real high level of maturity there man. You have absolutely no reason to be condescending to a coworker, solely based on what your assumption is of my age. (which most likely is incorrect considering you post makes me out to be ~14 yrs old) You have no idea that my wife may have had a miscarriage while I was in training. Or had a family member pass away while in training. Big assumptions to make there man, big assumptions. I like to think that when everyone entered into this industry, we began, or had been previously living in, "adult land". I'll refrain from being a pr!ck, back in middle school (which I just finished a few months ago), they told me some people just can't help themselves.