What would you do?

DPApilot

DPApilot

GUYSH! GUYSH! GUYSH!
I have a FBO job that I love, minus one of the managers and the pay.

I currently work between 16-60 hours a week with them and have been jerked around recently for minimum wage. I love what I do, and one of the managers has been awesome. The thing is the other guy let's it be known that if I want to say I'm thinking of leaving, he can take me down to one day a week or just fire me because he can hire someone else.

I used to be full time which they took away and have been bs'd about a raise for the past 3 months. Now 3 of our line guys are leaving by September, and one of them was our best guy. The other great guy (meaning he was fun and could actually do the job) was let go last month.

What does this mean? Well, we only have 6 line guys, one of them being the great manager. He works mornings and I work evenings. This would mean I would have to train at least 2 new people for the next few months and go back to doing my job and someone elses while babysitting them the whole shift. I don't mind that but I've already trained 3 guys here and it can be too much.

Another thing that gets me is Kay weekend, sat-Monday, we had 2 airplane wheelpants smashed and a door totally f'd up (one door and airplane was the same guy, on my shift) which ended up with 46 calls to my phone between 5:30 and 11pm on Saturday and another 27 between 6-8pm Sunday.

I also work at Major Airline on the ramp, but being part time I need something else.

I was just offered a job that would work with my Major Airline hours with International Airline and that would be part time too, doing what I love also.

The question is, do I quit the job with more hours and a possible drastic pay increase, and go to International Airline, or do I stick it out at the FBO and see if my manager can really get me what he's been promising?
 
Screw 'em. Go to Innunashunul Airline. Just because the FBO is a Small Business doesn't mean they give two craps about you or your QOL, as has already been demonstrated. If they're gonna fire their best employees and treat the remaining ones like garbage, they can deal with the consequences.
 
FBOs have a penchant for treating their employees like dispensable garbage.

My advice would be a quality-of-life assessment... I know that working with airplanes is what you love, as you previously stated, so the question is, which job will give you better QOL?
Factor in a coefficient for pay and that should get you close to an answer.
 
DPApilot said:
The question is, do I quit the job with more hours and a possible drastic pay increase, and go to International Airline, or do I stick it out at the FBO and see if my manager can really get me what he's been promising?
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How do you get a mule to pull a cart? You dangle a carrot in front of him, close enough where he thinks he can get it but far enough away he'll walk towards it.
Time to ask the manager if he can deliver the goods. Let your buddy/boss know you have been offered the other gig and it's about taking care of DPA at this point. Don't burn a bridge but you probably need to leave.
 
Roger said:
Screw 'em. Go to Innunashunul Airline. Just because the FBO is a Small Business doesn't mean they give two craps about you or your QOL, as has already been demonstrated. If they're gonna fire their best employees and treat the remaining ones like garbage, they can deal with the consequences.
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Word. I get treated way better on the ramp working for an airline (a *gasp* regional airline at that) than I ever did down at the local FBO.
 
Is the job with this airline another temporary job, or is it a solid job? If its solid, take it. But I wouldn't dump steady work for something that won't last more than a few months.
 
It's solid, and it looks like Major Airline is solid too, becoming full employees in September. That's what I worry about though, leaving FBO to hear that major says "bye". Oh, and staying at ORD would cut my commute by 2 hours a day.
 
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