Monday, June 25, 2012

To resign or not to resign?

It's been a while since I've blogged about my really cool job as a flight attendant. So much has transpired since then. In January, I took a job as a part time ground instructor. I love being in a classroom as much as I love flying. I've been able to incorporate both of my loves this year and I'm really happy!

There's just one little snag. You would think that taking a training position to train flight attendants how to be flight attendants would increase my pay. Sadly, it's been a terrible decrease. I am making anywhere from 50%-70% of what I made just from flying. It's been kinda hard these past couple of months but that is partly due to my limited mind and my company. Today my company had an opportunity to pay us more money, nothing bank breaking. Just a small stipend of what industry leading flight attendants deserve.

My airline has been number one for guest service, safety, and on time flights for quite some time yet we are paid at the bottom of the barrel as far as regionals are concerned. Regional airlines are the backbone of aviation in this country yet we get treated like shit.

I am considering resigning from the training department. Not being pretentious but I have personally done a lot to make my company shine. Myself and the Fish are the reason why my airline went from being at the bottom to being at the top. We didn't do it all on our own. It was a team effort on the part of the flight attendants to make us number one. The Fish and I simply created the program used to get the flight attendants in order. We've yet to be properly compensated for our efforts.

We haven't asked for anything. We are proud of our coworkers for stepping up and they too have not been shown appreciation for their efforts. We don't get treated like we're number one.

How is this created? How have I contributed to the creation of this treatment? I value what I bring to my job though I'm admittedly modest about my performance. I deserve to be treated better; To be happy in my career and financially rewarded for my hard work. Work that I'm not doing right now due to turbulence. Heaven help us.

This entire time I've been waiting for them to decide (as I type this it seems waiting on them may have been my error) I have done nothing but have faith that they would make the right decision. There is more to learn about power and creation yet. Sigh... I love my balanced job now of flying and teaching. I don't want to give it up. What to do? I should pray on this.

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