Alaska Air Hiring
05-15-2022 | 02:43 PM
#6231
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I don't get the feeling the bar is particularly high anywhere right now. I get the impression Alaska is just cutting the time wasting out of the process...You got hours, a clean background, pass your training and come across as a good guy or gal...what else do they really need? Space shuttle time is no longer a pre-requisite thankfully.
05-15-2022 | 05:13 PM
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Since we're all throwing our .02 around I'll deposit my .02.
There will be no contract before summer. The company will do just enough to keep us out of any cooling off period. The summer will be a complete disaster and nobody is going to buy us. Ever since I was hired there has always been a rumor that we would get bought. This fall the company will reinstate the stock dividend because you know "we have to protect the investors." The final kick to the nuts will be the large bonuses paid out to upper management for the difficult year that they persevered through.
Even though we are an airline and only have one reason for being in business (flying airplanes) the company will never look at us other than a problem to be managed and taken advantage of. It will not get better. The good news is I'll be taking 20 days off each month this summer via 3rd step because after more than 23 years at Alaska I still can't hold a summer vacation.
Best of luck to us.
There will be no contract before summer. The company will do just enough to keep us out of any cooling off period. The summer will be a complete disaster and nobody is going to buy us. Ever since I was hired there has always been a rumor that we would get bought. This fall the company will reinstate the stock dividend because you know "we have to protect the investors." The final kick to the nuts will be the large bonuses paid out to upper management for the difficult year that they persevered through.
Even though we are an airline and only have one reason for being in business (flying airplanes) the company will never look at us other than a problem to be managed and taken advantage of. It will not get better. The good news is I'll be taking 20 days off each month this summer via 3rd step because after more than 23 years at Alaska I still can't hold a summer vacation.
Best of luck to us.
05-15-2022 | 07:33 PM
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Since we're all throwing our .02 around I'll deposit my .02.
There will be no contract before summer. The company will do just enough to keep us out of any cooling off period. The summer will be a complete disaster and nobody is going to buy us. Ever since I was hired there has always been a rumor that we would get bought. This fall the company will reinstate the stock dividend because you know "we have to protect the investors." The final kick to the nuts will be the large bonuses paid out to upper management for the difficult year that they persevered through.
Even though we are an airline and only have one reason for being in business (flying airplanes) the company will never look at us other than a problem to be managed and taken advantage of. It will not get better. The good news is I'll be taking 20 days off each month this summer via 3rd step because after more than 23 years at Alaska I still can't hold a summer vacation.
Best of luck to us.
There will be no contract before summer. The company will do just enough to keep us out of any cooling off period. The summer will be a complete disaster and nobody is going to buy us. Ever since I was hired there has always been a rumor that we would get bought. This fall the company will reinstate the stock dividend because you know "we have to protect the investors." The final kick to the nuts will be the large bonuses paid out to upper management for the difficult year that they persevered through.
Even though we are an airline and only have one reason for being in business (flying airplanes) the company will never look at us other than a problem to be managed and taken advantage of. It will not get better. The good news is I'll be taking 20 days off each month this summer via 3rd step because after more than 23 years at Alaska I still can't hold a summer vacation.
Best of luck to us.
But seriously, isn’t the “real” 3rd Step suppose to go live this summer?
05-15-2022 | 07:36 PM
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05-15-2022 | 11:04 PM
#6236
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From: 737 tiller master
I don't get the feeling the bar is particularly high anywhere right now. I get the impression Alaska is just cutting the time wasting out of the process...You got hours, a clean background, pass your training and come across as a good guy or gal...what else do they really need? Space shuttle time is no longer a pre-requisite thankfully.
05-16-2022 | 06:32 AM
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I would be happy to “walk it” all back…When eventually an impasse is declared and we clear a 30-day PEB then we shall see. The equivalent of kneeling on someones neck with a Glock pressed to to the back of their head. We are still at the “standing in the street yelling at each other” phase. Escalation to “deadly force” ie. a strike takes a long time
05-16-2022 | 06:37 AM
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Because that is what it will take to eventually arrive at a TA…And have it voted down at least once before we vote yes on a contract….Do you think “those people” will treat us with respect and honor the contract that we just signed or will they be typical and Screw us at every moment
05-16-2022 | 07:50 AM
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Just my .02. Why would any qualified applicant come to Alaska? I can only think of one reason-PDX base. Alaska offers zero incentive and just a mediocre career. The BOD and upper management really screwed the pooch this time. BM says we will "over hire". I'd like to know from where? Majority of the pilots commute and Alaska's bases are located in some of the highest cost of living parts of this country. This place will shrink and hopefully be absorbed by a real airline run by management with a vision and a brain. It's looking more like Compass every day.
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