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Isles of Scilly Skybus
A word of warning to anyone thinking of applying to work for Isles of Scilly Skybus, based in Cornwall. (This includes engineers and ATC based at Lands end.)
Recently a number of pilots here have applied for jobs with other outfits. A lucky five have already gone.
I doubt it would surprise you to learn that people are leaving because company morale is non-existent, partly due to the total lack of competent management and partly because the company pushes a 'save every penny to save the company' mentality even though the company is doing perfectly well financially - you just don't see it in the form of serviceable equipment, in enough people to do the jobs properly, or in your paypacket. At Lands end (the company base) the senior ATC fits the airfield managers job into his (supposed) mandatory rest periods, the fire crew are fulltime refuellers and rampies and so never do any fire training, and the airfield is just a grassy pool of mud because the company won't pay for a competent groundsman to maintain it. Throughout Skybus, Operations don't know the meaning of efficiency or communication, and the whole mess is overseen by a control freak chief executive who feels the need to have a finger in every pie.
The company's answer to the stream of people leaving is to phone future employers and try to get them to cut the leaving staff off, rather than to improve morale by treating their employees like human beings. Despite the fact that many of us have years of experience and professional qualifications, we're treated like shelf-stackers. Example - the only company christmas celebration this year (again) was a restaurant dinner and drinks for management only. The rest of us didn't even see a card.
If you want to work for the company, I won't try and stop you. Just bear in mind that there is no morale and no efficiency, and just never try to leave, because you'll find your new job mysteriously disappear when the company finds out.
(Note: please don't think I'm throwing my toys out of the pram because of something that happened to me - nothing has. I'm just sick of seeing what's going on around me. This is a genuine and factual picture of the company at the moment.)
Sorry for the gloomy post. Have a happy christmas! pointcharlie
Recently a number of pilots here have applied for jobs with other outfits. A lucky five have already gone.
I doubt it would surprise you to learn that people are leaving because company morale is non-existent, partly due to the total lack of competent management and partly because the company pushes a 'save every penny to save the company' mentality even though the company is doing perfectly well financially - you just don't see it in the form of serviceable equipment, in enough people to do the jobs properly, or in your paypacket. At Lands end (the company base) the senior ATC fits the airfield managers job into his (supposed) mandatory rest periods, the fire crew are fulltime refuellers and rampies and so never do any fire training, and the airfield is just a grassy pool of mud because the company won't pay for a competent groundsman to maintain it. Throughout Skybus, Operations don't know the meaning of efficiency or communication, and the whole mess is overseen by a control freak chief executive who feels the need to have a finger in every pie.
The company's answer to the stream of people leaving is to phone future employers and try to get them to cut the leaving staff off, rather than to improve morale by treating their employees like human beings. Despite the fact that many of us have years of experience and professional qualifications, we're treated like shelf-stackers. Example - the only company christmas celebration this year (again) was a restaurant dinner and drinks for management only. The rest of us didn't even see a card.
If you want to work for the company, I won't try and stop you. Just bear in mind that there is no morale and no efficiency, and just never try to leave, because you'll find your new job mysteriously disappear when the company finds out.
(Note: please don't think I'm throwing my toys out of the pram because of something that happened to me - nothing has. I'm just sick of seeing what's going on around me. This is a genuine and factual picture of the company at the moment.)
Sorry for the gloomy post. Have a happy christmas! pointcharlie
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