Plabelover

So I recently got a full time job at a WO airline to boost my resume up a little bit when I have my 1500hrs. And to say the least I really don’t like the way things are done around here, and it’s not the company as a whole it’s their work rules and also my coworkers. I'm trying to suck it up until I’m done flight training, but my question is if for whatever reason I left on not so good of good terms would effect my in the future?
it’s a WO airline and I work in the ground department so nothing we do effects the flight ops I meanly handle the group agents and ground ops

bonvoyage

It probably wouldn’t hurt your flying career resume if you quit. But many lessons can be learned working a job you don’t like, and/or working with co workers you don’t like. A career in aviation is largely going to be spent in close proximity to another pilot and crew (at regionals, you’ll spend most multi day trips with the same crew). So a lot can be said for learning a lesson in how to get along and work professionally with people you don’t particularly want to get beers with afterwards.

What do you not like about the “way things are done around here”? Because that’s another valuable lesson that you need to grasp onto asap. Aviation jobs are not all glamorous, yes flying is better than loading bags, but nearly every pilot “doesn’t like the way something is done here”. But we manage to accept it and get by, so as it’s not being done in such a way to hinder safety.

Best case, you quit on good terms and no one ever asks why in an interview. Worst case, they ask and your answer spills out self-entitlement and they throw you out on the Captain review board.

Plabelover

to be completely honest, I was interviewed for a job and then when I started three weeks later they told “the person that you we’re supposed to replace is not leaving anymore and we will put you in another department” and I have been in a department that I didn’t interview for and I would’ve not applied to in first place because I didn’t have any experience in it, and since then I have been unhappy going in to work. The only good part is that I get to connect with airline pilot’s.
Plus those work rules are worst united’s old contract lol!(this is a joke)

BStill

excel at the job you've been assigned in anticipation of earning your way back to your department of choice, ideally with a promotion as a result of the "above-and-beyond" work you will have done until then. And a great TMAAT work-experience story to tell at your first pilot interview.

Plabelover

I would like to get back to the original department but I’m looking for a promotion just because the overwhelming amount of work load and stress that comes with it, it will set me back on my flight training and I’m not trying to make a mistake I did before where I put a job over my future goal

Otterbox

Give. 2 weeks notice, don’t bang out sick for them, and leave on good terms. I know people who have left the ground side at the WO and not been considered for re-employment at the WO due to how their departure was characterized while leaving the ground side.

Cleared4appch

Look, I know your predicament sucks. I’ve been there. Trust me, I know. I’ve worked some truly $$itty jobs when I was younger trying to finish my ratings and build the hours. I’ve worked with some, interesting people I shall say. I’ve worked in warehouses with some ex convicts. Wasn’t ideal, but it helped me to pay for those ratings one at a time. I also wasn’t interested in working my way to management or anything that involved climbing the ladder because I didn’t want that to detract from my real focus, which was studying and flying. I wanted less responsibility to work on what needed to be done. My focus was to be the sharpest pilot I could be. When I worked on my CFI, I put all my focus on being the sharpest instructor I could be. I practiced utilizing the fundamentals of instruction on teaching new people the basics of the job who were hired after me. I memorized the limitations of the airplane I was going to take a checkride in while driving a forklift. I reviewed in my head how my last training flight with my instructor went. Things I sucked at that I could do better on next time, things I was good at. I always took the time to prepare for the next flight lesson, even at work. I made use of my time until my opportunity to leave and move on came along. There’s ways to make it suck less. Get a little creative.

If you go into work each day thinking it’s gonna be crappy and it’s gonna suck, well, then yea, it will suck. Learn to embrace the suck, learn to suck it up. I know these aren’t things you’d like to hear, but it may be what you need to hear. Life isn’t always fair and it’s not always easy. Trust me, once you get to the airlines, there will be plenty of things that really really suck about the job. You will see what I mean. But you learn to deal with it. You will eventually look back on these days working a crappy low wage job and realize just how much character it builds. I know you’re probably sitting there shaking your head in disbelief at me, but in time you will see lol.

Sometimes things can get particularly bad at your job. If you must quit to find another, and perhaps, better job with less stress (but be careful with grass is greener syndrome), whatever you do, do not ‘rage quit’ and leave with no notice. I did that once, and it came back to hurt me. Took a while for me to recover my reputation.

Plabelover

So as the contract states for the ground ops, once your 2 weeks are in if you come late a minute(not exaggerating) for your shift you are automatically not eligible for re-hire

Plabelover

I honestly took this job because of the grass is greener syndrome lol and because it was in aviation and thought that’s exactly what I need. I try so much to be positive about it and think that it is only temporary until I’m a CFI but on day when it’s sunny and clear sky in the morning all the way until I get off I have to cancel my flight lesson those days makes it so hard to be positive. I try to enjoy it as much as I can and have a positive attitude but at this position I’m getting yelled at by angry employees that are mad about company policies that I have no control over it. You probably understand where I’m coming from, I’m just trying my best as much as I can but it’s not easy at all.

Otterbox

So you have your answer… leave on good terms from the ground side if you wish to return on the flight side.