Edinburgh - If you want a job here, PM me.. The company loves to hire through recommandations from employees.
Here is what I want in return:
1. You move here (former Soviet Union) and sign a bond for approx. £11K
and three years. The bond does not reduce. Roster is 5-6days on 1-2 days off. Late check-out every singel time (between 20.00-23.30 LT), and early check in (between 0500-0725 LT) If you want to travel home, you pay the tickets and travel on your days off.
Your roster is by no means stable, even your days off are changed at any time. In your roster you'll have standbys instead of days off, if they can not use you. Standbys are not paid, but if you want them as days off you take from your annual 28 days off (all included), or get unpaid leave (20% of your gross pay deducted per day) You'll fly on average 43 hours per month.
2. You pay for license and medical upkeep + do any and all paperwork and traveling required on your days off.
3. You take home £1K per month and pay your rent here (on average £350 plus expences) pay the bills you need at home and live here of the rest. Inflation rate is 7.5% p.a. Your salary increases by just under 5% per year.
4. You talk to the pilot union (yes we have one, and we are transnational) and explain to the senior captains running the union why their ideas of individual salary negotiations are not so good, and that they should have elections for the posts in the union not just have the president appoint who ever he wants for as long as he wants.
5th but not least you remind me every day that I should be happy that I have a flying job, and that I should grow up- Never mind the no hour new commers that pay a rating and fly the shiny jets. Supplying the company with a cheaper option than a career progression for us.
I converted the money into GBP for you, to make it easier. I spent two years of paid work (not flying) before I landed my first flying job. And I am so happy I staid on my high horse and did not stoop to paying my own rating.
Ps. to all others reading this, these were not the T&C's promised in our interviews- We were promised a land of milk and honey and less than a year to command or jet. We knew that there was a union, but not that they were bought. It has all just changed along the way, like our FTLs. And in this country, the big companies don't have to follow the employment contracts - or even the countrys labour law. I can not wait to get out!