Originally Posted by whossorrynow
What if the complaining new joiners had not joined?
Maybe the company would have been obliged to review the package. Maybe instead of a declining package, an improved package would have been in place by now.
By joining you become part of the problem, by staying away, at least for the time being, you might be part of the solution.
This is precisely why this forum is not viewed as accurate by those of us who will be interviewing at Emirates. The pervasive negativity appears to be simply trying to convince people not to come, not out of concern for the applicants, but in the interests of those already there. It is also quite obvious that most of the complaints are highly emotional in nature, and almost never supported by documentation or specifics. When somone asks for a sample roster, he gets a flurry of responses to his post, but no roster!
Without a union on the property, it is obvious that your only leverage for improving your situation is through supply and demand. You need to decrease the supply of pilots interested in the job to the point where management will improve the package. It appears there is a group of pilots trying to do that through this forum. But still, some of us know people with real names and faces at Emirates who are happy there. Who are we to believe?
My current company's pilot group has a forum like this for tossing around company issues. Most of the pilots in my company are really very happy with their jobs except for the current downsizing and furloughs. But there is a pervasive negativity on that forum too (always has been), way out of proportion to the feelings in the company in general. Why?
1. People will say things on the forum that they will never say in person. It is so easy to vent your frustrations on line where your real name is not even known.
2. These forums tend to attract only a small segment of the total group of people, and when a guy is happy and contented there seems to be no reason to go to the internet to post something. It is when he is frustrated and angry that he is suddenly motivated to go to the internet and air his grievances.
The bottom line is that all the negativity on this forum seems a bit exaggerated. It appears there is a small group of guys who come here regularly to vent. And you just told us why.
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