Originally Posted by
flapshalfspeed
At a minimum, 25%+ pilots on the Mesa seniority list would have been terminated from Republic by now for stupid things like going over 4 sick calls in a year, no-showing on reserve, non-revving home after calling in sick, etc..
While I def agree our pay/contract sucks, you guys who started your 121 careers here have no idea how moralistic and punitive the management culture is at almost every other regional in the US.
There's a reason people from other regionals come here and stay for a bit--and it isn't just the upgrade time.
Not saying we'll survive going forward with our current contract and no flow/preferential hiring, but the previous/present HR/management culture have kept a lot of people like myself here for a bit. I hope that doesn't change anytime soon.
I hope your not throwing me into that boat with some of the loosers we do hire ,who do abuse the system and are just plain sh*t pilots. It seems like almost half of my new hire class had IOE go well past 100 hours which is just sad. I for one was done with IOE at 20 hours and have never missed a single day of work, not too bad for my first 121 gig? But that's the environment we are in, we take who we can get and apparently hire people over e-mail now. This is a great place just some more cash in the pocket would be nice and not having some really terrible pilots would be nice as well, but that is the training departments problem. Which I imagine they are a little more stringent now that airplanes are getting bent now and again.