Open Your Eyes!!!!
Well, here goes, i haven't been on here for a while but i have been keeping up to date with things and i was determined to let the proverbial dust settle before i got on a soap box that really i didn't have any right to jump on.
i've now been with ba for 6 months, in fact wlits trained me (and an excellent job he did to!!) and fbw i think as well (is that right wlits?) i did my first lh the other day (my god i love it!!), so i can't say if it will make a change in my £££, however at my interview i was told a would take home £500 min flight pay.
i came from another airline so i know that bar money and flight pay can take months to kick in, but i have to say that i have realised £500 more or less for the last 3 months so when people keep saying the money is pap for new starters then to be honest i haven't really found that, if you are motivated enough to bother to really get to grips with carmen and they way she works you can get what you want right from the start.
for those of you that have been here for a while i understand that you think things are rubbish here, but the reality of the situation is that they are worse than before but better than anywhere else, this 3 crew moan? i think it works fine, there's no meal service in et and there's triggers for high club loads (which i think need a bit of adjustment) so really it just means that whilst you are at work you have to earn your money rather than floatin around getting in each others way and spending half the flight eating you way into another dress size or reading that latest gossip column. i can honestly say that i've never had it so easy, but conversly because of the cut backs, those of you who have been here a while have never worked so hard!
this isn't a dig at the veterans of dan air, city flyer, eog or just ba for a few years, but i must say that all it looks like a people complaining about actually working whilst at work. sorry guys.
the strike, i think that people should get over this whole lhr/lgw divide, we have more fun, they have more money, the new lhr xfers have said as much, sorry if any lhr guys disagree. but we are one company, this isn't a playground so lets stop bickering between ourselves and stand up to the bullies, i think that ba are relying on the fact that a huge majority of new entrants at lgw aren't in the union and a large section of the lgw community aren't strike minded. everyone needs to join a union and be counted. if someone isn't happy we have to support them, it's as simple as that.
lhr i'm sorry but wake up and smell the coffee, you are overpaid for what you do, and there's too many of you, it would be great to keep everything the way it used to be but welcome to the real world, one that changes every day. the company has had to change and we've had to follow suit but for a long term viable future we need to do more. the hourly rate? so you'd loose money but do you really think that what you do is worth all that cash? i know nurses and teachers that earn less than some of you guys, we are technically an unskilled service workforce, there isn't anyone in that sector that get's anything like what we get.
the world has changed, lgw might not be the blueprint for the future at lhr but there's lots of things that may well be, lgw is the future? quite possibly, the finance of the company dictates that we do it cheaper so why not make us do more? £££, pensions, psr on the upper deck, non of it affects me at the moment but i go to work every day with people whom hold it very dear so i will stand with them and will do whatever is asked of me.
i'm genuinly sorry if people don't like what a new starter with a mouth has to say, and i hope people don't take offence, i love my job, my choices and my work mates, i'm happy with my pay and really, i'm happy with my roster, maybe i'm too easily pleased but some are too easily p**sed off!!
love you guys!