Outback Steakhouse?

[Ty Webb]

Originally posted by Gulfstream 200
I wonder if you can get those big cold beers they serve with that card??

You can take friends/family out to eat on the card (for free) but alcoholic drinks must be paid on a separate tab. No problem having a few beers on the road, as long as you pay for them yourself (at least 5 or 6 years ago, it wasn't).

 

[Heavy Set]

I liked how the operation was referred to as "cost effective" - that translates into CHEAP. I'd love to fly the Falcon 50s, but that job sounds like too much duty time and too little pay for the effort (average 16 RONs per month) and all of the extra duties. I think the article mentioned that salary was "industry average" once you FACTOR IN all of the benefits. What does that mean? Does that mean that the benefits bring pay levels up to industry average (so they must be lower to begin with)? What's the estimate for Captain pay on the F50 at Outback - anyone care to estimate?

You'd have to eat a lot of BLOOMIN' ONIONS to make up for the pay package and duty time...

 

[Gumby]

Outback...

No to mention the part in PP about the pilot interview process...It reads..."One element of the pilot interview process includes a lunch invitation where the pilot behavior and manners are carefully observed". It goes on to say, "We look at how a prospective pilot orders at a restaurant, and if they can't make up their mind on the menu, how are they going to make split-second decisions in the aircraft?"

Now that IS priceless, certainly should be the basis for future hiring standards industry wide!!

 

[Diesel]

I'll have the alice chicken, no wait the victoria filet, no wait the aussie chicken, no the bloomin onion....

**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** engine failure left, er right, er left, er right.... nope i'm pretty sure it's the left. well we are going to land, no takeoff... crap

When i read that in pro pilot I almost fell off my chair. How come you didn't get the job... I couldn't decide on medium or well done.

I used to work for a guy that had unlimited eating at caraba's and outback. They shared his parking lot so they paid him in vouchers. Basically i ate there all the time. After a while of doing that you could pick everything on the menu and hearing an outback commercial made you ill.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

I think by the second or third trip to the OUTBACK within a month, I would ready to puke myself....

especially if the is a NO BEER clause..

what else do they have to offer?

 

[pilotjc]

How about the one year prorated training bond new hires must sign before they get type rated in the falcon 50 or westwind.

 

[some_dude]

I wonder if they are required to eat at Outback?

I flew a trip for a hotel chain a few years ago, and we were required to stay in their hotels and eat at their hotel restaurants whenever possible.

The good news was that if it could be charged to the room, it was fair game (including but not limited to, golf, massages, whatever, and many of their properties were golf resorts).

The bad news was that you had to eat at their restaurants... period.

This was fine for me, since I was just filling in for a week, but I think it got a bit old for the full-time guys!

 

[skydan]

Good article in the new Professional Pilot Mag on OutBack.

 

[aroundtheblock]

they made the cover of this months Professional Pilot Mag.
there is everything you want to know about them in there.

good luck