FL350 said:
What's your beef with Books-a-Million? I know the big wig can be a pain sometimes but I have always heard it's not a bad place to work. Is it sour grapes or what?
I never flew for BAM directly. I only flew for them when they needed the airplane. (On average, once or twice a month.) I flew for a different division of the family. We used to call it Cluster F**k Airlines. They would send 4 airplanes to pick up 3 people. They would call and say get to the airport as fast as you can, then we would sit at the airport for 5 or 6 hours. Finally, we would finally get in touch with a secretary who would say, "Oh, that trip cancelled 3 hours ago." We would have to get up at 0300 for departure. The pax would show up 2 to 3 hours late, then back to the airport for the return leg 3, 4, 5 hours late. We were constantly sent to the wrong airport. It was normal practice to change destinations enroute, sometimes by several hundred miles and in completely different directions. Several times we had to be at ATL at 0200 to pick up one of the family pr*cks after an all day trip on the day before. Finally at 0900 we would find out that the pax stayed in LA and we had to come home to fly that days trips then return that afternoon to pick up the guy who stayed in LA. One of them is worse than the others. We would take him somewhere, he would say, "I'll be back in 45 minutes...an hour tops." We wouldn't hear from him for 5 or 6 hours. They are impossible to reach to find out when or if the trip is still going, or when they are actually returning to the airport.
I could go on for hours. Basically, it's the third circle of Hell. I was convinced that the reason I was there was because I raped a Nun in a previous life. And that's just the
GOOD part of flying for them. If you want to hear the bad part, I'll have to take a Valium first.
By the way, I'm not sure I ever mentioned this, but you don't want to fly for BAM, any of it's sister companies, or the family that owns them all.
Oh yeah, and don't go fly for them. In fact, I may change my signature to "You do NOT want to work for those people!!!"
Please consider this a public service announcement. If I am able to save only one person, it will be worth it.
No, it is not sour grapes. They did not fire me, lay me off, or any other such thing. I left for a better position. Of course, mine detecting with a hammer would be a better position. When I left they didn't want me to go.
In case I haven't mentioned it, you don't want to go to work for those people.
