Originally Posted by
moon
Worked construction. Worked an office job. It's true standby is easier than those jobs, until its your last day and you reach hour 7 and a half and it's 1030 pm and you just want to go home but you can't because there is another aircraft type that is delayed and you can't leave until 11 or it leaves because well what if it downgrades.
This job has been fine to me but I see how brutal it can be to junior people and commuters. I sympathize with those people and want to fight for change. It just gets to me when someone with no direct knowledge of how tough it can be to work here at times tells us we dont have it that bad. To that user. You are getting hired on the back end of a big hiring wave so things could be tough for you if you get the 145 or CRJ. I hope it works out but wait until you've been here for awhile before you pass judgement on our contract it's more than just pay rates and flow.
I've worked construction too, as well as reasturants, grocery stores, your typical lower wage high hour jobs to get through school and what not.
I'm not trying to say I know everything, I'm just saying that we should have our board kept to a somewhat professional level, I think it's been getting better but it seems like we literally complain the most across the fourms compared to what people are ACTUALLY saying and its not that bad. I just dont want ptospective guys getting scared away cuase of this but hey I guess that wouldnt be the worst thing since were over staffed now.