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inthegoo

inthegoo

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Forgive me if this has been talked about in another thread but, SkyWest is dragging in all their pilots to these professionalism classes and telling them things like, "there is more to life than money" and showing them videos of crippled folks who are happy with their lives and telling them "these folks have no legs and they are happy, you all have legs, you should be jumping for joy!" blah blah blah, brainwashing.............etc.


I guess thats the Utah way.

This is no joke, OO mgt is actually doing this!

Anyone else care to comment who has been put through this embarassment?

Oh I forgot the part about the FO's creed/pledge that they make you recite! HA!
 
Never heard about this... kinda bet you got some wrong info... Still the idea is pretty funny... and then it with a TFAYD..
 
Inthegoo, do you work for Skywest? If you do, pm me your info and I'll copy and paste this post you wrote and anonymously email it over to KB for ya ;-)
 
This is for real. Had a buddy from Skywest just go through it.
 
they showed the video of team Hoyt. I thought it was actually well done, If you are that insensitive maybe you should try becoming a father its a great institution. The whole premises of the class was trying to get us off our butts and to do our jobs. We can continue to view ourselves as bus drivers or we can try to elevate this industry, and gain of the respect back that we used to have. apparently Goo didn't get the message. I will say some of it was a little cheesy, but the overall message was well worth my time.
 
Yea McDonald's actually does the same thing with their in store employees. Management types are aware that if customers find their burger is made by homey-d with his pants around his knees and greasy hair 3 feet long that their customers will demand something be done to bring in 'better' employees. So, to avoid that whole mess McDonald's teaches homey-d and all of its employees that they should come to work with your uniform clean and pressed, and always maintain a professional appearance.

They still make minimum wage.
 
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jet pipe ovht said:
they showed the video of team Hoyt. I thought it was actually well done, If you are that insensitive maybe you should try becoming a father its a great institution. The whole premises of the class was trying to get us off our butts and to do our jobs. We can continue to view ourselves as bus drivers or we can try to elevate this industry, and gain of the respect back that we used to have. apparently Goo didn't get the message. I will say some of it was a little cheesy, but the overall message was well worth my time.
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I guess you drank the kool aid.
PBR
 
I suppose the sad thing is that SkyWest even has to put these classes together. You would think that at this point of our career we would know how to act professional. Yea we still make minimum wage but do we demand anything different through our appearance and or actions. I've seen the guy with the black sketchers, 5 o'clock shadow at 9 in the morning, back pack, ipod, and sun glasses on his head. Some of us don't deserve the respect we demand. Call it drinking cool aid but I'm tired of being viewed as just a pilot. I want the professional respect that all my training and education deserves. Hard to get when some of us still look like hung over frat boys.
 
jet pipe ovht said:
I suppose the sad thing is that SkyWest even has to put these classes together. You would think that at this point of our career we would know how to act professional. Yea we still make minimum wage but do we demand anything different through our appearance and or actions. I've seen the guy with the black sketchers, 5 o'clock shadow at 9 in the morning, back pack, ipod, and sun glasses on his head. Some of us don't deserve the respect we demand. Call it drinking cool aid but I'm tired of being viewed as just a pilot. I want the professional respect that all my training and education deserves. Hard to get when some of us still look like hung over frat boys.
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Use some fancy logic to teach us how exactly a professional appearance will result in higher wages. Please?

IMO its just the opposite.

The hat, the shined shoes, the clean shaven military man are a RESULT of hiring the right people. Instead, we hired the fat chick who eats burger king in front of her passengers while waiting on the agent to print the release. Oh yeah, i went there. The regional airlines have been hiring from the turd farms for over a decade now. As much as you want to polish those turds, they can only be polished to look like shiny turds.

They are turds. I am a turd. Repeat after me.

Don't forget that "professionalism" extends far beyond the uniform and appearance too. The cockpit discipline I have observed on the jumpseat from former military pilots at some major airlines is WAY beyond anything I've ever seen from a regional crew. It is all a result of who was hired.
 
Had it. Overall it was a good class with many good leadership strategies. It HAS had a positive effect on overall professionalism.

However, the main beef I had was when I brought up that if the company wanted to stop the decline of professionalism, they should TREAT pilots as professionals. This was turned around and it became a problem with self attitude and worth, and not one of the company having ANY part in creating a professional atmosphere.

That, and making SURE the class took place on a scheduled day off. They even changed the 'unchangeable class date' so it happened that way. (yeah, I got paid but a day off is a day off) If it was THAT important, couldn't they have covered the flying?
 
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What's the matter guys are those CRJs finally getting dirty? You thought the Skywest gravy train would last forever. You still work for the lowest bidder that has the most amount and yet you still make poverty wages. All your management has to do is compensate you a dollar more than me and call that industry leading. Stay off that koolaide.
 
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What's the matter guys are those CRJs finally getting dirty? You thought the Skywest gravy train would last forever. You still work for the lowest bidder that has the most amount and yet you still make poverty wages. All your management has to do is compensate you a dollar more than me and call that industry leading. Stay off that koolaide.
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Hypocrite. How's GoJet compare?
 
I've been through this class. I believe it was put together to not only try and improve attitude but also to appease our FAA office which has been crawling up our a** with a microscope since the Colgan accident. Skywest has been scrutinized harder than any other regional over the last year. Interestingly at the beginning of the class they offered the opportunity to leave after the introduction if you felt it would be a waste of your time. Think any big talking pilot in there had the balls to walk out? Nope. I tried to have an open mind and somewhat positive attitude going into it. There was actually some good information I got from it and the lunch provided was the best I've ever had at a training event. The instructors did a good job presenting the material. By the end of the day though it did seem to get long winded and the whole standing up and reciting the creed thing was a little much imho. But overall I didn't feel like I wasted my day.
 
Gobi Gred said:
and the whole standing up and reciting the creed thing was a little much imho.
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I will try to find a copy of this silly creed/brainwash and post it here for some laughs,

there is some bs in it about "I will be a good follower" (of the captain)
 
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