Originally Posted by
Dhood84
I appreciate the post, but respectfully disagree with your assumption of my friends practices. The schedule, pay and bennies are in the top 5% for that airframe, nowhere near “average”. Just because I didn’t say “excellent / stellar” doesn’t imply anything. As far as your point of hiring the right people, even the craziest and most disrupting individual can get through the cracks. I was on the hiring board for one of my companies and interviewed hundreds of candidates. Let’s just say this, people are great actors when they want to be and sometimes it’s very hard to decipher the bull****.
DH
I understand what you may think. But lets look at this from a different angle.
Either the guy was a whack job and slipped through the cracks. Or the compensation levels aren't what you think.
In my experience when a whack job slips through the cracks (at a good place of employment) 9 times out of 10 you have to fire him kicking and screaming out the door because they know they got a good deal going and do not want to lose it.
Now when a whack job gets hired at a fly by night sorta operation they are the ones that do exactly what you describe. Keys and phone at the front desk and CYA. Seen that a hundred times.
So if you wanna say he slipped through the cracks I can totally believe that. I 100% agree with you people can be great actors. I have flown with guys for 6 months until they let their true colors shine. But I have a hard time believing he left his keys and phone at the front desk mid trip at a top 5% job willingly. Those are the ones you have to fire then have conversations with the unemployment office about. Multiple times...
Just ask yourself who leaves a top 5% G650 job like that? Especially the crazies that know they won't be so lucky the next go round.
Unless of course what you and your friend may assume is top 5% really isn't. I am not looking at these gimmick salary surveys for my numbers.
You can post up what his basic package was and I'll tell you what I think (my opinion of course) but top 5% on a G650 is gonna be "at least" 250k+, business class international travel, only working half the time on a hard schedule. No on call. And that pay number could fluctuate up or down depending on a few other factors but not really down unless there are big bonuses and 401k type stuff involved.
Anyhow if your buddy is truly top 5 he will have no problems replacing that guy and I am sure it won't happen again.
