Flight Otpions

[RVATOR]

Recently left Flops Maint and I have not been happier in a long while. QOL issues played a major roll in my decision to search elsewhere, After being told that I was the only guy in our shop able to work 3rd shift.! I was #2 on the seniority list with plenty below me. I questioned management about some sort of compensation for my shift senority dispairity and none was offered. At this point I am glad that they didnt as I may have settled and remained on that sinking ship. I trust shirringa about as far as I can throw him, he answers questions with such vanilla canned answers I cant help but not believe him. It has been said by Shringa before that there is a unwritten 3 yr timeframe to make money for Raytheon, I cant see that place making money and I think someone else will own it in the next few years.
Just my 2 cents
Former Flops employee
Happly no longer.

 

[Miles Von Croft]

I have also left FLOPS. The best thing I ever did. Sure the money was okay (just enough to keep you from looking for another job) and the hours were alright. I left because of the silly decisions. I was told I don't see the big picture so many times that I thought I should at least be able to put it together from all the scrapes I do see.

Here is what I saw:
Managers asking that the rules be bent to fly aircraft! Any manager that disputes this is not being truthful with themselves or you.

Managers not willing to log in to the computer system to make the changes they demand to bend the rules to fly aircraft. This way they could say it was done by an employee with bad intentions or by accident. Oh, change accident to mistake. FLOPS has never had an accident.

Inspections performed for no other reason than mechanics needing something to work on.

Departmental feuding and power grabbing, for what I don't know, must be part of the big picture. Reminds me of a high school student council.

Human resource violations on a daily basis.

Employees fired because the manager did not know how to communicate policy, directions or counseling. Poor manager? Fire the employee to make the manager better. Wait.... What? Is that part of the big picture?

I always thought the senior management should be a diversified mix of professionals from a broad range of industries to achieve a balance of performance that would lead to success. Instead FLOPs got airline retreads. "Look how well we screwed the last place we worked? Thanks for the job offer Michael can I bring my friends because if I leave Gamma Airlines they will not be protected from their own incompetence and they will get fired. They're good guys, trust me?"

I further contend that FLOPS would be better off promoting from within if the senior management was made up of the cadre of professionals. Instead it pisses people off to the point that they are just there for the paycheck, they know more than the managers hired above them and they allow the managers to trip over obstacles for no other reason than ego. "See we could have saved my salary and that incompent boob's salary ever month going forward if they promoted me instead of hiring him."

Speaking of boobs. I saw more at work than I ever saw out at a club. Install a disco ball and charge a cover. Can you say, "Profit Center?" Maybe that was part of the big picture I did not get, the club atmosphere was an employee benefit. No it was just another example of under paid employees. If you paid them more they could afford to buy clothes for work. Or if you established a dress code and published it instead of sending via e-mail and enforce the dress code starting with the managers.

FLOPS needs to write things down and publish the policies that are trickled down through e-mail. I heard so many times that it is in an email that the big picture must be in an email. "Hello? Wonderful manager. If I just hired in to your department and it is in an email you sent last year how can I be held responsible? Are you going to send me the email before or after you discipline me?

The other thing I saw so many ID 10 T's running off to meeting to decide when to have more meeting that when decisions had to be made the managers were never there and then you had to defend your actions.

That was the other thing I saw at FLOP's employees with printed copies of emails to use to defend themselves later. Never to defend themselves from the FAA but from the "Student Council of Managers."

I finally saw enough when I when I caught my supervisor in a lie and it was backed by the management hierarchy. I knew then that it was time to go. The company started with the best of intentions was on its way to being another crappie place to work!

 

[linecheck]

I left Flops two years ago and haven't regretted a day since. Stay far, far away.

 

[The Great One]

Pretty ignorant statement. I left Options after four years for a charter job. Pay raise, gone half as much, incredible increase in quality of life, the list goes on. It doesn't take much anymore to find a job better than Flight Options!!

well you must have good knees then