Desperate times...4th AD in less than a month and counting...
 

hahahahaha clowns !!

Desperate times !!!
 

Desperate Times call for desperate measures...
Seems like the dust is starting to whirl :rolleyes:

Having just watched it, I can feel a Mr.Creosote moment coming over me...
 

Maître d': Good afternoon sir, and how are we today?

OKC: Better.

Maître d': Better?

OKC: Better get a bucket I'm going to throw up!

The cringe-worthy factor on this one is high. Not because of the individual involved but how obviously scripted it is. Talk about desperate measures. :ugh:

My Jumeirah Jane can enjoy this amazing city whilst I am away!

:D:)

"Our health care is taken care of" Really? You mean the healthcare you pay insurance for that just got increased unilaterally in a contract that is null and void as EK is not subject to UAE Labour Law. In this digital age, these kind of cheesy ads with downright lies will come back to haunt you!!

Fish Bait
 

With the current state of affairs nobody in the right sense of mind would consider joining especially when the 'Other 2' are hiring with better work conditions.

Sometimes you need to use whatever bait you have to reel in the fish you are looking for.:D

AD vs. Advert
 

Every time I see one of these threads I click on it thinking there's a new Airworthiness Directive published.

Gets me every time.

I think they've realized pprune is having an effect, and they've gone all out on the BS factor in these ads.

Here is another one:
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRc8A3GTsGI


Are these people out of their minds ? :ugh:

The Aby MPL lot can't wait to join EK , many are so excited to finally fly long haul

So how long until EK become unmentionable as well?

The German chick in the last video failed her upgrade a couple of years ago and has recently landed herself 'removed from roster' - not the best advertising tool for EK

She is a lovely lady. That was made in 2014. Grow up.

0:29 - 0:36 :confused:

Completely different cultures and races intertwining. Cannot be farther from the truth.

What da f^ck? These videos are starting to make me angry! Not sure who I'm more angry with, the airline or the idiots starring in them.

I think you need to get out more EY. EK has been making recruiting videos for more than a decade. They have never showed the true day to day life here. Nothing is different now. As I said before, one of the videos on this thread was made in 2014.

I don't think you will find many 380 FOs complaining about life here at the moment (just the same as 777FOs a few years ago). However, just like all those before them (and those same previously mentioned 777 FOs), they will be here in a few years complaining of how their "promised command in 3 (insert your own time frame here) hasn't happened and they have been shafted. Luckily this shafting will be not much different to all those that have been shafted before them.
Nothing has changed here. Only the shine of those big shiny jets is harder to see through the sand filled air.

The first few were amusing in their fakeness. Now they just seem desperate.

At least they'll make nice mementoes in the (near) future so folks can look back and reminisce about what an A380 was like.

You know, what the hell. Maybe it is a great job on the bus flying around to cool places and getting days off. I know we are desperate but the ads don't seem so bad . Good for him. Cool bike, pretty wife and probably flying his dream airplane.

I have flown with her several times. She is so company brainwashed.
How embarrassing!

These videos are different to the ones created a few years ago. They have taken bullsh*it to an entirely new level. They have a problem and they know it. First they lower the minimum requirements in order to get more applicants through the door, then they introduce a slightly revised package to entice more experienced guys to join. Now these videos try and 'sell' UAE and EK as a lifestyle job, more so than ever before. Some people will be lured by such glossy videos, however most are smart enough to see through it all and realise if a company such as EK needs to produce videos such as these, then something is not right with the job/package. What's next? Commuting contracts? :)

Ooops ! If there there ever was doubt in your mind whether to participate in anything like that with corporate comm´s, young Miss Germany´s misfortune proves why you "NEVER" should. Let M.M and the likes of him do that.

"Just fly the b... A/C." How hard is that ? :ugh:

Anyone have a link where "Girlie Girl" is on the Ellen Show ?

Take a look at the first produced recruitment video EY. It shows a family living in their house with a pool talking about company accommodation. It is exactly the same formula that they are using now. No difference at all.

Ashley Ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T-ujzU6vSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpUJR129m_s

On Ellen Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu5JIAw8t8U

I bet my hotel perdiems that even the actors themselves cannot say that they see themselves in EK till retirement. Not even more than 2 years after the upgrade. That's why these videos sound wrong.

Emirates can no longer sell the job itself (word is well and truly out) so they are trying to flog the "lifestyle" of living in Dubai instead. Which is indeed a sign of desperation.

100% agree with Geordie. When I talk to guys around the world and ask them if they have considered Emirates?, the majority of answers received is: yes but I just don't want to live in such a place. EK recruitment has 2 hurdles to overcome and that is the destruction of their reputation as a good employer and also the negative connotations of the words Dubai and UAE with regard to life as an expat. These videos are a pathetic attempt at knocking down those hurdles.

Such an easy solution to get more suckers through the door: more $ and overseas bases. Management greed and arrogance will eventually have to give in at some point. Flight Ops cannot keep lowering the bar for recruitment standards and only so many videos can be made before they realise it probably has made no change to the amount of people applying to get in.

I agree EK has lost its shine and Dubai never had it. But why are people so upset about these recruitment videos? Who cares? Get a life , enjoy what little time off either in Dubai or down route.

BTW , have not watched and presently waiting for pickup.

people are upset about the lies and deception being depicted in these videos

What lies deception? Perhaps not everyone in EK is bitter and twisted. Fatbus talks true talk when he says get a life. There is more important things to complain about than a few videos.

Cannot see the deception? Are you kidding me?

Get a life? Says you? Taking the same amount of time and energy to login and chat about them after having watched the videos also :ugh:

But not butting my head against any wall. There are far more important things to worry about.

I would hope any professional pilot would see these videos for what they are- advertisements for the "EK/Dubai way of life" and realise they are no more real than Jen giving up her first class suite to go and play IFE games in economy.

However, there is one born every minute and the thing that bugs me is the people who are taken in by this will be sitting next to me in a couple of years time complaining all the way to Europe that life hasn't turned out the way in looked in the videos.

There was a time when Emirates didn't need to advertise at all for pilot recruitment because the people who were already here were the best publicity they could get. People (and I was one of them) were even prepared to pay for their own tickets to get to Dubai for the interview. How the mighty have fallen.

And you had to be able to fly back then as well big fella.
They could make this place P2F and still find someone.

You guys are so jealous it's embarrassing! Get a life!

Jealous of what? We are already here living the dream.:rolleyes:

....from 2 guys, the first with 19XX posts, and the other with 22XX posts.

:p Close to the funniest thing I've read here.

:D

How do you get "removed from roster"?

There are many ways...