Falcon driver, I am very glad your short time in the sand has been good to you. But, alas, some of us have had our conditions of service reduced to those same ones you were happy to sign up to.
When we joined, the company paid for all the utilities, just like it said it would in our contract. When we joined we got paid a min of 3.5hrs for any day at work, including reserve, sims, SEP or any ground schools. We were also paid 2.5hrs for every day of leave. We were paid productivity pay when we worked overtime. The school fee allowance paid for a min of 90% of the school fees.
So yes we may be a bit miffed to see life style and earning capacity continually eroded. If only we to had your low expectations, and were more willing to to go with the flow, or as you rightly say, "swim with the current", and smile as the company steals from us.
In fact most of us now are making Aed 8400 per month less than we were 6 months before you joined. That hurts. And it is upsetting when you see the same company make record profits at the same time as stealing off its employees.
Perhaps if they returned us to our original conditions, and left you with your conditions we all could be happy.
Sorry FEdriver, that is exactly NOT part of "the quality of life" I mentioned.
Call me unruly, stubborn or having too much pride...but no f
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dimwit manager and/or local is going to make me back down because I fear to lose my job!
If that is o.k. for you and it makes you happy...enjoy it but please don't tell others "to get a grip...life...etc."
All wonderfully valid and accurate points guys, in fact I'd go so far as to say I sympathize with you...trouble is...have a look at the world around you....
Where on the planet are you going to find T & C's like you enjoyed previously?
You guys had a cozy little expat club/airline that was the envy of those looking from the outside in....
All you have experienced is what most of the rest of us have had to endure over the past 5 years or so flying elsewhere.
My old man was out here 30 years ago, and nothing has changed, so I fail to see how some of the moaners on here seem to think that they somehow have had anymore influence than anyone else.
All I'm interested in is looking after my family..putting grub on the table, and having a life, I'm not interested in bitching about how the good old days were..the company steals off me blah blah blah, get over it..adapt, play smart etc..evolve or die.
Sorry, but get used to the new reality.....or try getting into KLM/Air France...or perhaps Korean might suit you a little better
