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wessex19
5th May 2007, 04:22
Okay my regional pilot friends, if you are having problems getting by financially, why not embarress your employers by putting the tip jar out while taxiing in!!! Especially you guys who are flying miners in/out.... just announce how you are probably the lowest paid person currently onboard the aircraft and that your employer will not contemplate giving you a payrise so you are doing this to "get by"!! WHY NOT... Bartenders do it, coach drivers in Europe do it, so why not Aussie regional pilots. Go on, embarress your employers into giving you the payrise you deserve!!!!:ugh:
Jet_A_Knight
5th May 2007, 04:27
Because the first thing they would say is:
"I'm not tipping some $150,000pa-earning-silvertail-button-pushing-toff".:hmm:
2p!ssed2drive
5th May 2007, 10:40
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that WOULD rattle the cage... wouldn't it.
18-Wheeler
5th May 2007, 13:16
I've suggested this on a couple of American forums, on the subject of tipping and why Aussies don't do it.
They get all huffy and say it's expected and all that sort of thing. I say that what I'll do is insist on tips from all my passengers.
I worked out I could make something like five figures a day doing that, it's a bluddy good earner!
Am I executive material or what? :D
Ultralights
5th May 2007, 14:02
you can make 5 figures a day from tipping pax? WOW! so why is the company paying you anything then?
Rich-Fine-Green
5th May 2007, 21:18
As per numerous other posts on PP:
If a Pilot 'suddenly discovers' they have accepted a position and are working for less than the award they can;
1. Inform their employer of the oversight.
2. Failing resolution of 1., inform their local equiv. of industrial relations dept. of their employer's oversight so that compensation and adjustments can be made.
3. Resign.
If, (as in this forum) a Pilot finds He or She is being paid the correct award and still feel the need to put out a 'Tip Jar' to survive, then they would have to question their choice of profession. He or She may well be better off swapping a white shirt for overalls and joining the next flight out to the mine.
I get tips on almost every flight.
Sometimes of up to $10,000US.
Only problem is you have to work for the Arabs and live in a sandpit :sad: :sad: :sad: