TurboDog

I am curious of what is motivating folks to stay at Comair besides the Economy and Job Market. Not saying I think you should leave, because everyone's situation is different, but I am just curious as to what keeps you going.

In your opinion, what is that ray of hope that you think is coming and when do you think it will come to fruition?

RiddleEagle18

The only reason im here is there isn't anything else. Ive been looking for over 6 months.

evilboy

******HAPPY ANNYVERSARY******

Today is my 3rd month since I was furlough (Nov 05). 3 months of nothing but blissful NOTHING.
I have Comair to thank for all the things that have happened to my family and me since. The slight depression at the beginning, the overeating, the lack of eating, the dreams and nightmares, the arguments with the wife, the overwhelming crapy feelings that engulf my sense of responsibility, providership, and my capacity as a role model.
Comair, thank you for the lack of intersted in trying to solve this situation before it happened (to be shared with ALPA also), and thank you for your ability to show any care since this happened. I also do appreciate how we were discarded at the worst possible time in this current economy (it not being your fault), were finding gainful employment is near impossible, even though one may be willing to subjugate self to any job -regardless of how demeaning it may look like-. Which, brings me to another thank you Comair. I'm speaking for myself here, but thanks for helping me find that "new level" of comfort a person has buried inside, and use it to muster courage in order to do the things one has to do to survive.
There are sooooo many other ways I'd like to thank you -COMAIR, and in some way, ALPA-, that I'm sure by the time the 6 months anniversary comes, I'll be able to clean up the language in order to print it here.

Thank you again, and go 3825 yourself!.

To all my brothers and sisters from Oct 05 and Nov 05!.

TurboDog

I am really surprised that not a single person that has left this company has gone to the media to run a story about how they were treated here.

On Autopilot

No other place to go. The job market is not in the toilet, it's in the sewer, passed through the toilet a long time ago. I don't think things will get better, with daily news of more layoffs, this is turning into the GREAT RECESSION/DEPRESSION.

On Autopilot

AVIATION IS A SMALL WORLD.

BlueMoon

What has gone on here that doesn't go on at other companies? I'm not saying this is a great place to work by any stretch of the means (if it was I wouldn't be getting ready to leave), but to say the treatment of its employees is newsworthy is a bit much.

Ohiocrjfo

I've worked a lot of jobs... not as a pilot, and I wouldn't call this a horrible or newsworthy job at all. This job is what you make of it. You can make yourself miserable every minute of your time at work, or chose to be optimistic. The fact is it's not nearly as bad of a place as many people make it.

In fact if we as employees actually acted like we gave a crap we might not be in the sad state we are. I've never worked somewhere where people are so negative and lazy.

On Autopilot

I digress with the above statement. There are plenty of folk who give a crap here and what did they get in exchange for it? A company on a cost cutting binge firing probie pilots/fa's over the slightest infraction. A company that targets full timers as well as senior pilots/fa's to try and do/did terminate them over the slightest infraction. In other departments in this company I have seen them personally target full timers and go so far as to make up stuff on them to show them the door.

Comair was a great airline that was the envy of the regional world, but now, it's a shell of its' former self. So what you are witnessing is the end result of a company that decided to at mother Delta's urging to devour thier young. Folks in management know it's wrong, but if it comes to you or thier family to feed guess who loses?

DIESEL

SEE-YA COMAIR!

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