Does anyone know whether we will be contacted during the 6 months on the shortlist, to give us a bit of an update on what is going on or do we just sit back and wait???

Hey there, hope you are having fun at training! Why havn't they called me yet for Eastern???? I'll do anything. Let me know if you hear anything else. Take care.
Among the Stars.

The crew at Eastern dont want you anyway, chewed up strike breakers are the last thing we need. Therefore keep hanging out for the LH position.

hahahahahaha

sorry. had to laugh!

Don't hold your breath. I was on the shortlist for 15 months (not 18 like QF would like to think) and we didn't hear much at all apart from when the list expired and they'd keep us on for another week or so. then at the end of it all they told us all to F off so they could go employ strikebreakers! They're such a wonderful company. I love them. I can't wait to work for them!

Eastern boy - I Luv you! *MWAH*

easternboy,

Grow up. I have alot of friends who work for Eastern and am happy to say they don't have your opinion.


amongthestars,

I don't think we are high on QF's list of priorities, they got what they wanted out of us so now i'm sure we have been put at the bottom of their list of things to do.

If what midnight is saying is correct maybe you might get a call soon, you never know whats around the corner......

cheers,
wg

Good call Easternboy.

Those of us at Longhaul dont want the lowlife either.

"Sent to Coventry" is the best that they could hope for.

Jettlager

Fingers crossed for everyone on the shortlist, good luck.

This is what I am hearing.... Latest news when it comes to the short term contract people. They are being offered interviews at Eastern.... (most probably most know this). What are the trips like on Eastern??

AND they are going to do the short term contracts at AO now.... I don't think Dixon really is great when it comes to motivating the troops..

Do we know what's happening with the 11 month long haul contractors? where are they going at the end of their contracts if they didn't take London????

Oz
:confused:

Yeh and relocate to cairns to be a casual for just 3 weeks. HA!!!! The thing that gets me is they actually have the balls to ask people to do this.

Please tell me nobody has actually taken up this offer after all we have been thru?? Because if you have you must have rocks in your head and I don't care what your reasons are you are bloody mad and trust me you will regret it I can assure you.

I hope AO cabin crew do strike and stick it right up QF arse!

And before anyone gets all "oh you were a strikebreaker" on me let me just say I went through all the proper interviews, assesment, panel etc interviewd by QF flight attendants not Adecco being told all they way along it would be for an 11mth contract. Then I get offered the 3 mth positon which I take not really knowing what I was getting myself into (naive I know but S##t happens). After training finished I joined the FAAA and I can assure you there was no way in hell I would have worked if you guys had striked.

So please try to hold back on the abuse.


Oz,

A friend of mine took the 11 month contract position and after it ends she gets to go back to her old job at QF if she doesn't choose to go to London. I think alot of the 11 mth contractors are already QF staff. Also I believe a number of MAM casuals took up the 11 mth contract aswell so I would imagine they woud go back to working for MAM but i may be wrong.

Cheers,
WG

Hi,

I went to a Perth Panel Interview and then received an email two weeks ago saying they were pleased to advise that my application would be continuing. Is there anyone in Perth that has received this and have you heard anything else.


Thanks
:confused:

Here I was thinking that the Perth had not been contacted... now it appears to be just me (again!)

Oh well, one had to laugh... purgatory (or limbo) is a interesting place to be at least.

Good Luck all!

JB

I thought I got told 3 weeks training and then 3 weeks in Cairns???

amongthestars,

Either way its a joke and we are just being used again.

wg

hi

so you guys which were originally employed to cover the strike action have been offered AO?

Oz

Oz,

We have been offered just 3 weeks casual employment which I would imagine would be to cover any strike action taken by AO crew.

Also I have heard of a few more people being offered Eastern, not sure of the details though.

Cheers,
WG

post 11 month contractors
 

As at a cuppla weeks ago when I contacted the Union, Naomi Hodby, the outgoing Resources & Planning Manager, had stated (in negotions for permanent work for the very few Long Haul casuals), that there are no plans to make permanent the 11 month contractors.

FAAA encouraged 11 month contractors to be pro-active and ensure QF are aware of our desire to be made permanent, should that be their wish.

Have not heard of ANY contractor being offered 3 day training for AO, etc.

Also, just confirmed that PER Long Haul base to downsized to about 90 from about 300 ( can anyone confirm these numbers?).

For the information of the Perth people that seem to be sitting in the dark!!!

From the Panel interview held recently;
My references were called today and interestingly enough they were told that I was applying for a permanent fixed term contract with QF. Maybe they could tell us that!!!!
So it will be interesting to actually be told anything like what it is we may be offered.

At the interview I was told that they were compiling a short list for the comming months. They could not say if it was for contract, casual, permanent, domestic, LH or Short Haul, and would I also be interested in MAMs as a casual!!!!!! Basically would I take anything they were going to dish out my way!!!

WoW, what a feeling to walk out of an interview without exactly knowing what it was I applied for...... I love this industry and everyone in it, but as time goes on, it seems the strong arm of most avaiation companies is killing the one great thing about Flying, " The Happy, Fun, Professional" Cabin Crew that are the face of these Multi Billion $$$$ companies,,, I am sad that we are all feeling so let down by the procedures that have been put in place of recent times in hiring Cabin Crew.

I just wish the Best for everyone caught in this messy process right now, who knows where we will end up, or if at all!!!!
Good Luck to all!

Just updating...
I heard from one of my references this morning letting me know they were contacted.
Then i got a phone call from good ol Claire at Qantas saying the birth certificate extract copy i provided wasn't acceptable, it had to be the full certificate. So i then faxed that through.
Had to wonder why that wasn't picked up earlier... oh well.
Jesski

My references haven't been contacted yet, but they contacted them last year when they offered me the strike breaker position. Do you think they will call them again?

Hi,

Got a call to start training for MAM.

I hope this is not QF's attempt to recruit more strikebreakers. What does everyone think???

I'll go along for the ride but if I see anything suss i'm outta there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not going thru that Bulls##t again!!

wg

waiting_game,

Congratulations that's fantastic news, I'm so happy for you!

We knew you'd get there in the end, all that patience has paid off, and it couldn't have happened to a nicer person. I'll be having a bevvy or two to celebrate for you. :}

So when do you start?

WG!

Congratualtions!!!

I'am on the shortlist with MAM and I'am dying to recieve a call to start training.

Will you be based in Sydney?? I wonder if they would call me?
Seems liek things are on the move!

When do you start training?

Rollz
:ok:

Hmmm... interesting...

Lets see if those who make the choices have determined that I have spent enough time in limbo land yet...

Good luck to all who are waiting!

And while on the waiting topic.... Congrats to waiting_game!!!! Go have a great time!

Fingers crossed to all :ok:

JB

OK!

Some news...

There will be 2 training sessions held. One starts this Friday and it is currently full.

The next one will be earlier in March. Not sure about the status of that one. Was told to give it a few days and might get a call.

Fingers Crossed

Rollz

:ok:

Hi all,

Thanks guys for all your best wishes.

Iguana, you and I have to catch up for a drink some time and have a good chat. Thank you also for all the advice you have given me, its been a great help.

Rollz, i'll have my fingers crossed for you!!! hopefully you will hear something in March.

JB, I can understand about you feeling frustrated that you are in limbo, but at least you haven't been told no so you never know whats around the corner!!!!! my fingers are crossed for you too.

I'll be starting training on Friday so i'll keep you all posted as to how i'm going.

cheers,
wg

JB,

you weren't at the EK interviews this past weekend, were you? Could have sworn I saw someone who looked just like ya there - you may have a twin you don't know about! :D

Sky

PS Congrats Waiting_Game, great news!!!

Learning Curve
 

You people never learn.In your blind rush to become Cabin Crew you have not learnt anything from the "strikebreaking"episode at Christmas.YOU ARE BEING USED.Once an agreement has been reached between Qantas and the FAAA you become yesterday's toast....old and stale and only good for the rubbish tip.

thats a bit harsh dont u think surfside?
This is a dream of so many people on here, why cut them down like that? So qantas screwed a few (lot) of people but we are all well aware of that.

and from me as well... CONGRATS wg!

Alternatives
 

There are other airlines apart from QF.They place greater value on you as an employee than Qantas ever will.
As has been said elsewhere be careful what you wish for.

Thanks Jesski.

surfside6 you are entitled to voice your opinion and you very well might be right. Im not counting all my chickens before their hatched i'll just go along and see what happens.

Cheers,
wg

Just a little bit of advice to everyone. Ignore Surfside. Afer the past couple of days I have received many abusive PM'S from him/her. According to Surfside, I need my 'BRAIN WASHED OUT WITH HYDROCHLORIC ACID'!!!! Don't worry, to all the QF shortlisters we will get there, I heard that there maybe a NZ training school coming up in the next few months aswell, and then another MAM group. We just have to stay positive and remember we have already come along way.

Surfside, are you a current Qantas employee?

if not, then stop telling everyone how you think Qantas treat us, its employees. Yes, they stuffed a lot of people around in regards to recruitment and continue to do so, myself being stuffed around as we speak, but all i can say is get over it or just simply deal with it. It's the whole industry not just Qantas as a company, you ask people who are waiting for an answer from Emirates after being on the shortlist, the waiting period seems to get longer and longer and no one can get an answer except, "we're still processing it, about another two weeks", if you can't hack how you get stuffed around (presuming you've been burnt by Qantas or another airline before) by an airline, maybe you need to try another industry.

Not an attack, just some advice.

Oz

Short list \long list ,,no list
 

QF
Feel the need to keep their HR departments busy thats all it is most of the time..... SORRY ! I was accepted buy QF long haul two years ago ,put on one of their their mystery lists for 18 months then offered MAM work by them ( no thanks ) , Later a strike contract(no thanks) then told I had to reapply haha can you believe that . Life is to short to waste .
I mean your paying all that money to a department you may as well get them to do something :ok:
PS more overseas jobs though give it time :hmm:

Amongthestars
 

Private Messages are just that..Private Messages.
I have sent 2 to you and one was a response to your message.So lets not exaggerate.I also notice you have been threadbanned.
Further I write these posts because I am concerned about the treatment you will most likely receive from Qantas.I know what Qf is like ...I work there.
Ozcabincrew.You need to make up your mind how you feel about Qantas.In another forum( New Australian Australian Airlines EBA) you totally contradict yourself.

Correct me if I am wrong Ozcabincrew, but you are NOT an employee of Qantas yet. You are employed by MAM as a casual, through this contract crewing company. If you are going to have a go at someone at least represent yourself honestly.

Surfside6

I dont really understand your comments, how are the MAM casuals being used? They only operate within short haul and the short haul EBA does not even expire until later in the year, therefore there is no agreement to be reached with the FAAA.
I believe Qantas need more short haul crew and as per their policy they employ more casuals.

I personally would be quite interested to see the ratio of permanent/casual within short haul, considering the last time permanent crew were employed was back in 2003.

easternboy, check ur pm's

PM for yo IKEY:)

any news of anyone being invited to the apparent march training group?

Qantas Panel Interviews
 

Hi,

I also have done the Perth recruitment group assessment in September and then the Panel Interview in December. They did ask if I would be interested in doing MAM casual and of course I said yes. I received a phone call in January asking me to fax thru my RSA certificate, I did ask the question with the lady and she said everything was looking good. I then received an email notifying me that Qantas would contact me in around 4 weeks. The letter I received on the 28th January.

Someone advised me that there may be training commencing in March ?

I have heard nothing since......does anyone know what the go is ? Or any indication when we will find out what is happening ?
Is it a wise move to contact them and ask ?