Defending Captain Overtime (The Raving Loony Thread)
Hi All
Just wanted to defend Captain Overtime (COT) - he has not joined on a larger salary package, he and his family (of DE's) are now working for a certain UAE carrier and he wishes to deny that DE Captains are getting more.
I took a personal peak at his contract.
His contract is as follows
AED 24500 per month (Flat rate AED 400)
No pay rise in 7 years
No yearly increment
No Housing
No Utilities
No Medical Coverage
Never Goes Sick
Can be terminated without notice - He assures me this will never happen.
No Overtime (remember to work out just how many of his family are working in the airline he fly’s the regular block and gets the regular leave)
Takes six weeks leave a year but never gets paid for it
No tickets home
No Family therefore no Schooling or medical add ons
He works about 735 hours per year ( holidays taken and by an extraordinary coincidence is the exact number of hours a line Captain would work annually if no overtime was achieved) Hence this is why he is paid AED 24500 per month.
By the way COT ranks in the top 5 nationalities employed after all he and his extended family - all DE Captains- are being recruited at a very fast rate.
He said also said he wanted a pay rise, but cannot work out what would be a fair rate- can anyone help?
Now he has one complaint - a number of you- you know who you are taking his work- the monthly hours you were told you were working on your contract or verbally versus the number of hours before COT gets paid represent a complete loss for his revenue- so he thinks he works an average of the first 10 hours each month for free.
So no more complaints about work conditions COT needs help on his conditions before us- but what can be done?
Now a final note from COT- he wants to get as many of his family on board ASAP- and you can all do your bit to help - he said you know how.He also claimed that another distant relative is working for the carrier- FOT. He said if that can be proven between the COT's and FOT's they will rank top in their numbers. Ridiculous I said!