Resignation?
12-22-2015 | 08:43 PM
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What happens if you're about to go on an assignment? TDY? To school? While in school? IOE?
Sometimes from the company's perspective it's just easy to say "thanks, don't bother coming in." It's not necessarily vindictive, just a reality of what's easier.
True story (late 1990's) - new hire finishes training, but not IOE. Gets a CJO from their #1 choice pending medical. Tells training manager. Manager says "you've already been transferred to your base. Contact the CP." CP says "don't bother showing up. Congratulations. We'll take you off the payroll."
Years ago someone gave two weeks notice because they'd had a class date with their first choice. Company #1 said "thanks, we'll just cancel your IOE so you don't have to bother showing up." Oops, flunked the medical at the new company. Original company, after assessing how the person's honesty cost them their first job, gave them their job back. If they had never given notice they'd never have lost their first job. They could have just 'no showed' like several guys had already. Instead they were honest and it cost them, until their CP reinstated them.
When you look in the mirror how do you feel good about yourself? Stiffing your employer by not giving notice? Or giving notice even if it puts you at some risk?
Sometimes from the company's perspective it's just easy to say "thanks, don't bother coming in." It's not necessarily vindictive, just a reality of what's easier.
True story (late 1990's) - new hire finishes training, but not IOE. Gets a CJO from their #1 choice pending medical. Tells training manager. Manager says "you've already been transferred to your base. Contact the CP." CP says "don't bother showing up. Congratulations. We'll take you off the payroll."
Years ago someone gave two weeks notice because they'd had a class date with their first choice. Company #1 said "thanks, we'll just cancel your IOE so you don't have to bother showing up." Oops, flunked the medical at the new company. Original company, after assessing how the person's honesty cost them their first job, gave them their job back. If they had never given notice they'd never have lost their first job. They could have just 'no showed' like several guys had already. Instead they were honest and it cost them, until their CP reinstated them.
When you look in the mirror how do you feel good about yourself? Stiffing your employer by not giving notice? Or giving notice even if it puts you at some risk?
He said that move was one of the smartest things he has ever done for his career.
12-23-2015 | 03:55 AM
#33
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When I used to fly for the regionals, I met a pilot who never resigned from the left-seat at said regional airline when he was hired by Delta in 2001. By his own admission, he reported for new-hire training at Delta on September 11th while using his vacation days. His plan was to give his two weeks notice after he got paid for his vacation days. The events of 9/11 that morning put everyone in his Delta new hire class on the street by that afternoon. Without saying anything, he just went back to work in the left-seat of a RJ while everyone else in his new-hire class was on the street looking for a job.
He said that move was one of the smartest things he has ever done for his career.
He said that move was one of the smartest things he has ever done for his career.
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