$3500 Signing Bonus at NWA???!!!???

[atpcliff]

Hi!

Check this out:

Northwest has advertised on employment websites bonuses of up to $3,500 for $9-an-hour, (for) part-time baggage-handler jobs at airports such as Boston and Minneapolis-St. Paul.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2007-09-12-airline-jobs_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Wow!

cliff
GRB

 

[The_Russian]

Why don't they just raise the hourly pay?

 

[Guitar Guy]

Are you going to apply, Cliff?

 

[Jet_Driver]

Why don't they just raise the hourly pay?

That costs more. With the signing bonus people get hooked. It takes a while to sink in that they really are getting paid too little for the work. Then they will quit. It might be cheaper in the long run for NWA to just pay out the bonus.

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

Maybe I should apply! I have three weeks off now, so if I applied, I could get the bonus and then quit before I had to be back in YIP!

cliff
GRB

 

[landlover]

Hi!

Maybe I should apply! I have three weeks off now, so if I applied, I could get the bonus and then quit before I had to be back in YIP!

cliff
GRB

i was thinking the same thing

 

[festus]

There are probably length of employment conditions to get the full amount.

 

[PHXFLYR]

Hi!

Maybe I should apply! I have three weeks off now, so if I applied, I could get the bonus and then quit before I had to be back in YIP!

cliff
GRB

Don't think it works that way,at least the one that I heard about. They pay out the bonus after your first anniversary with the company.

PHXFLYR

 

[whymeworry?]

So they ask loyal employees to take a paycut to save money... then use some of that savings to recruit new workers? Sounds like the employees are paying those bonuses (sp?) out of their own pockets.