Getting your job back - ALPA carrier
04-29-2012 | 05:57 PM
#11
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My last carrier's contractual provision was 30 days from your last day on property.
04-29-2012 | 06:12 PM
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You want to make lateral moves that is what happens.
04-29-2012 | 06:22 PM
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Not true, once you are a Dr., you are a Dr. You can go anywhere and negotiate your pay/benfits. Same with your lawyer example, don't necessarily have to make partner to make it big. Again, the lawyer takes his/her years of experience to the next gig to start pay and benefits. Also too accrue a$$ kissing for partnership.
04-29-2012 | 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by LineCheck
Things did not pan out in my shiny new corporate gig as their need for a pilot no longer exists. I was one week into training when I got the boot.
04-29-2012 | 06:30 PM
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Live by seniority system, die by seniority system.
04-29-2012 | 06:44 PM
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From: emb145 cpt
The reason we have to start over at the beginning when changing jobs is because we pilots (yes, us) don't want a new guy coming in experienced or not and taking a spot that we think we should get simply out of longevity. We are the very people who would raise the roof if it were based on merit.
04-29-2012 | 06:46 PM
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This "start over" happens way too often. Think, Eastern, Braniff, People's Express, Western, etc. More recently, Atlantic Coast/Independance Air, Comair, TWA. Other historians will come up with others. Do the experienced Check Airmen/Instructors/Captains/First Officers, not have any value over the new hire? Experience that is rewarded in any other profession.
04-29-2012 | 07:08 PM
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To the original poster. You ever talked to anyone that worked ina corporate job? In my experience, you dont know until about 6-12 months if you made the right choice. Mine worked out after that long but after 2.5 layoff, sell jet. Im now close to furlough at "fill in the blank regional piece of .... Airline" but, to jump to a corporate thing without knowing and then asking for our job back in regional world was DUMB. Sorry guy.
04-30-2012 | 02:29 AM
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Originally Posted by SnoJet440
Do the experienced Check Airmen/Instructors/Captains/First Officers, not have any value over the new hire?
If you had been somewhere 5 years and were on the cusp of upgrade, how would you feel if a captain from an airline that went bankrupt and shut its doors got hired and was slotted above you, in "your" captain seat?
Yeah, I'm sure your thoughts would be altruistic...
Experience that is rewarded in any other profession.
There are pros and cons of both merit and seniority-based promotions...can't have the benefits without the risks.
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