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Old 07-31-2018, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by TeamSasquatch View Post
AMF isn’t in a tough spot... They cash big checks from UPS every day. But, you are on the right track. Perks and pay are all it takes.
AMF has always been able to get people in the door. It is getting people to stay, getting people to leave happy, or stay happy while they work there. AMF is excellent at driving moral into the ground.

Forbes did an amazing article on why people stay or leave a job, and money was not the number one reason people left, poor management was. It has always been an atrociously run company from a middle management and up standpoint. The schedule, the airplanes, the lifestyle, the QOL, the respect, is all lacking, it has always been lacking and has always been a major issue.

AMF will always be stuck in a really weird place. They have no legit flow program that regionals offer, you can either be a 135 captain at 1200 hours for AMF or instruct a few more months and go to a regional where you can pick your poison on the next career step, and at the same time possibly wait for flow or preferential hiring programs, at the same time as getting the most relevant experience to a career airline. AMF does have preferential hiring programs but they aren't that great. Fly at AMF for 3 years then you only get an interview at Frontier? You can go work for any regional and get an interview at Frontier sooner than that.

The market is in an amazing place right now. In 2010 when I hired on at AMF they treated each employee like pure crap, because they could. Nobody else was hiring, and if you didn't like the job you were shown the door, as well, everyone walked on eggshells for fear of being fired for any little thing. Fast forward to 2018 and they are begging for anyone that can fog a mirror, to come work there and stay for a little bit, but they don't want to put the work into changing the culture. At the same time, there is only so much you can do. You can only make a Beech 99 so appealing...
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