sorrygottarunway
Well-Known Member
You\'re the Front Desk Staff (similar to \"You\'re the Captain\")
So, my saturday working the front desk at my flight school was crappy anyway, with people wanting fuel, complaining about not getting it "RIGHT NOW" and bitching to me for their plane not starting when they didn't pre-heat and cranked the battery to death.
But nothing compares to about an hour before my shift ended:
In walks a good-looking, about my age (22) kid with a shirt and tie and a folder. He tells me he's a flight instructor, freshly graduated from (famous aviation college)* with about 259 TT, 29 multi, 19 actual IFR, half of TT as PIC, looking for a position, would there be anyone around who he could talk to? I told him our manager is out on the weekends, but I would gladly take his resume and have him fill out an application. After the necessaries were filled out, I put the app on the manager's desk, reminded him to "follow up" with a call in a week, and that was it.
No more than 10 minutes later I get a call asking for the former name of our flight school, it was the same kid. I explained how we were the same place, and I was the one he just gave his resume too. I also used the opportunity to tell him I was an instrument student, also just graduated, and that I understood how the industry is very tough now, many are in the same boat, I hope it gets better soon, we all just have to work through it, yadda yadda.
Then the kicker: He responds quite arrogantly, "Listen, this is not a job search. I'm past that stuff, I have my ratings, I'm a professional in a career. I've paid my dues to 'this industry' so that I don't have to work a desk job." (or something to that effect) And that was it. Insulted, I just said "sure ok, sorry," and hung up. I couldn't believe someone could be that arrogant.
I guess bad days are to be expected in an FBO, but I was appalled at this. Everyone has to go through the dirt before getting the "dues paid." I just don't understand. What the heck does this "paying of the dues" mean. How much dues?
*not displayed, I dont want to pick on any place.
So, my saturday working the front desk at my flight school was crappy anyway, with people wanting fuel, complaining about not getting it "RIGHT NOW" and bitching to me for their plane not starting when they didn't pre-heat and cranked the battery to death.
But nothing compares to about an hour before my shift ended:
In walks a good-looking, about my age (22) kid with a shirt and tie and a folder. He tells me he's a flight instructor, freshly graduated from (famous aviation college)* with about 259 TT, 29 multi, 19 actual IFR, half of TT as PIC, looking for a position, would there be anyone around who he could talk to? I told him our manager is out on the weekends, but I would gladly take his resume and have him fill out an application. After the necessaries were filled out, I put the app on the manager's desk, reminded him to "follow up" with a call in a week, and that was it.
No more than 10 minutes later I get a call asking for the former name of our flight school, it was the same kid. I explained how we were the same place, and I was the one he just gave his resume too. I also used the opportunity to tell him I was an instrument student, also just graduated, and that I understood how the industry is very tough now, many are in the same boat, I hope it gets better soon, we all just have to work through it, yadda yadda.
Then the kicker: He responds quite arrogantly, "Listen, this is not a job search. I'm past that stuff, I have my ratings, I'm a professional in a career. I've paid my dues to 'this industry' so that I don't have to work a desk job." (or something to that effect) And that was it. Insulted, I just said "sure ok, sorry," and hung up. I couldn't believe someone could be that arrogant.
I guess bad days are to be expected in an FBO, but I was appalled at this. Everyone has to go through the dirt before getting the "dues paid." I just don't understand. What the heck does this "paying of the dues" mean. How much dues?
*not displayed, I dont want to pick on any place.