Initial training hotel at SLC
#11
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2012
Posts: 490
But I digress.Honestly, it could be good for others. Make a new friend and talk to someone else about how the class was going for them and ask each other questions.
#12
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Joined APC: Aug 2007
Position: I pilot
Posts: 2,049
Many females end up with their own room of there are an odd number of females in the class. They don’t room males and females together. If there’s an odd number of males, someone will get their own room.
#13
#14
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Joined APC: Apr 2010
Posts: 803
It has nothing to do with affordability. It's about the limited number of rooms for each class coming to training. They like to keep everybody fairly close to the sim and training facilities to make it easier to get to class. Plus, SLC hotels fill up fast this time of year. If students were scattered all over the Wasatch front in ten different hotels, they would constantly have issues with transportation, traffic, group study, and other things along those lines.
There are two parts to this situation that was told directly to a sim instructors meeting when brought up:
First, it's money, SKW can get double rooms sometimes far less than 2 separate rooms, and SKW is usually the only customer for such. Pure and simple it's money, even during the Olympics we found cheap rooms, sometimes 20 miles away, and even then sometimes people shared beds. Paying for a separate room on your own is not always an available option. There been more than one that have quit because of it, I guess some people like to be treated like a professional adult? If I want to make friends with a class mate, I'll do it over a beer not running around in my room in my underwear.
Second, SKW likes to "test the waters" with people. They know they can't do it to already established employees even though they tried when we had to go to Berlin for sims. They want to see that you will tolerate being treated the way they want to treat you with out back pressure. If you resist it YOU WILL BE NOTED as "uncooperative" and "bad attitude". If you don't have any issues through training it won't be a factor, but if you do they will be less likely to work with you.
Capitulate to graduate, or in other words, surrender your self respect so SKW gets a known commodity.
Trust me, the double bunking is very demeaning, but it nothing to how insulting it is to be on reserve here.
#15
It has nothing to do with affordability. It's about the limited number of rooms for each class coming to training. They like to keep everybody fairly close to the sim and training facilities to make it easier to get to class. Plus, SLC hotels fill up fast this time of year. If students were scattered all over the Wasatch front in ten different hotels, they would constantly have issues with transportation, traffic, group study, and other things along those lines.
Not complaining or complimenting, but logically ... if the number of rooms was the issue, how is it that when sims happen, suddenly everyone gets a single?
#16
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Joined APC: Aug 2014
Posts: 313
Delta doesn’t even pay for hotels. The fact of the matter is, why would OO change this?
The line pilots aren’t going to petition for this, because honestly we all did it. This clearly doesn’t affect recruiting, so the company isn’t going to do it either.
The line pilots aren’t going to petition for this, because honestly we all did it. This clearly doesn’t affect recruiting, so the company isn’t going to do it either.
#17
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Joined APC: Dec 2018
Posts: 1,064
This has nothing to do with anything else but “they get away with it”. The rest are just dumb excuses (not enough hotel rooms etc.)
The recruiting department is very data driven and tries to understand why people are not joining OO who have an offer. Double occupancy doesn’t even make the list.
TFAYD
#19
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I had to look this up:
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“thanks for all you do
as used by russel “chip” childs in all his letter to his employees
used in short “tfayd” sarcastically by his employees to show when they got shafted
blah blah
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The internet is sure interesting!
I had to look this up:
definithing.com/tfayd/
“thanks for all you do
as used by russel “chip” childs in all his letter to his employees
used in short “tfayd” sarcastically by his employees to show when they got shafted
blah blah
thanks for all you do,
chip childs”
The internet is sure interesting!
#20
Lives in Base
Joined APC: Mar 2011
Posts: 399
It's a suite that has one bedroom, the other "bedroom" is where the living room would normally be, so one person does not get privacy. I wouldn't be opposed to being in a hotel room suite with another training pilot if we both had our own separate rooms.
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