Originally Posted by
jungle driver
I think you are right, new hire bonuses are not an option right now, however a retention bonus I believe is allowed since the whole pilot group would get it not just new hires. I feel like the company will be forced to go this way at some point, hopefully soon!
Yeah, that's what I remember being the big thorn in the pilot group's eye. I interviewed about two days after the bonus was announced, then started a few weeks after that. There was certainly a fair bit of animosity. Not towards me, but the situation. The bonus was a pretty hard line in the sand. You start after this day you get $10k. You start three days earlier you are SOL.
I don't THINK the pilot group would have a problem with a retention bonus. Who knows, though? That's really the only front we can keep up with out peers. It's the only thing we can do to get fresh faces.