As a joinining F/O with a family you can look forward to not saving any money for the first three years at least. Dubai has experienced a 40% increase in cost of living over the past five years. Our salaries were recently increased to a whopping 2% YES, TWO PERCENT. Early commands!? If that is your main motivation, think about it carefully. Three years service and 6000 hours, minimum requirements. Schooling!? Less and less space available for your kids, rapidly becoming a serious problem.
Housing! The biggest joke of them all. Company's official policy is: We will offer you company housing ONCE! If you do not like what we have to offer, then here is an allowance, GO FIND YOUR OWN. YOU WILL THEN HAVE TO PAY FOR EVERYTHING YOURSELF, EVERYTHING! Basically you will have to pay an adittional 20,000 - 40,000 Dhs per annum out of your very average salary to RENT your own place. Just imagine, 20 years service with this company and all that money you forked out over the years went to paying for the rent!!! Wonderfull!!! By the way the company can at anytime they see fit move you out of company housing for what ever reason, offer you a "new place" and if you do not like it! Guess what? Here is the allowance and HAVE A NICE DAY! But 'I am a senior Captain of fourteen years' you might protest!
TOUGH!!!
Basically we do not have anywhere else to go!
And management know this and acknowledge this by their actions and general attitude towards ALL emoloyees. And in many cases we even as employees of this company treat each other with the same contempt and disrespect.
So come and join us, we will show you how to re invent the wheel and teach you how to be more disrespectfull than ever before. Courtesy Respect and Manners is not our strong point!
HAVE A NICE DAY