I thought so, the following was a reply when someone asked about working at Empire, does it seem accurate to you? I know it's been a while since you left but still... anyway, here it is:


"if you are talking about empire the fedex feeder i wouldn't bother. you have no control over your schedule, can possibly choose a base that supposed to go off of senority wich dosen't mean anthing to them. needless to say the management sucks. they constantly ask you to break the fars and question you every time something is written up. such as; you know that will cause a delay can't you just write it up after the flight. or my favorite is here are the parts they will fix it in xxx base when you get there.
plus they make you sign a training contract at the start and then again when you upgrade. the contract is written so if you are fired you still owe them the money. the reason the training contract sucks is that fedex pays for all the training so why do you owe them the money? they constantly upgrade people then wait a few months then have the pilot sign the contract and if you don' they fire you.
it is basically a sub par 135 company with 121 operations. many are not happy and have left. the pilot group had just tried to start a union because managment would not give them a raise in over ten years while pocketing the increases in pay from fedex
the list is long and so are the pilots that do not like it there. however the caravan job is pretty sweet. all out and back, not much travel and mostly are left alone, pay is still very sub par for the job and like i said no increase in the pay scale for over ten years."