Piedmont Airlines Employee Reviews about "travel benefits"

Pros

Travel benefits and outside work.

Cons

Pay and outside work during winter

Pros

Flight benefits!!! Travel often and take advantage of this benefit! Make friends and trade shifts. Have a few people to call in case you miss a flight back to work.

Cons

New hires expect to work nights, weekends and holidays.... But flight benefits!

Pros

Great travel benefits for you and your family. Lots of latural job opportunities working as a ramp agent. Flexible schedule, you are able to give away your trade shifts, or pick-up shifts fairly easy.

Cons

Low pay, high employee turnover, company is always trying to more with less. Lack of manning can be stressful especially during the hot summer months.

Pros

Flight benefits are quite amazing provided you have significant savings or income from another source to support your travel bug. The job has the potential to be easy as there is a repeated set of steps required for every plane, not a lot of thought required. Unfortunately there is a persistent problem of understaffing and broken equipment that often makes the job fairly difficult and not without stress. Obtaining supervisor status, a couple dollars more per hour, does not require any people skills or demonstrated management talent. Quickly move up in seniority as half new hires don't last through probation. If you want to stay inside and play with your cell phone or watch a movie rather than assist on the ramp when a plane arrives, there is a good chance the supervisor would rather ignore you than face confrontation of asking you to assist. It truly has the potential to be a great work environment with outstanding travel benefits if there was adequate staffing, working equipment and skilled supervisors.

Cons

This is not a job to earn a living wage combined with the realization that even with promotion to a supervisory position would only elevate you to fast food worker wages. I cringe each time I see a new batch of new hires, knowing they will get no guided training, will no doubt be humiliated by incompetent supervisors as yelling is routine, knowing that half will simply not return after a short period. Employees have been chastised for trying to guide new hires as they are not certified trainers! With most lacking people skills and management talent, supervisors routinely ignore lazy workers rather than asking them to do their jobs. To describe short staffed as chronic is an understatement. A revolving door is needed to cycle all the people hired and quitting shortly thereafter. Unfortunately hiring new staff requires a crisis and unrest in the remaining troops. Fallen soldiers are not quickly replaced as replacements are not held in reserve. The staffing level reaches critical low levels, requiring extra long hours and mandatory work assignments from the remaining workers. After months of complaints and near burnout, a new batch will be hired. Half will not pass the background checks, 75% of those hired will not be able to ignore the public humiliation more than a couple of weeks and the process repeats. The entire culture revolves around rules and punitive measures. Rarely a day passes in which an employee is not written up or critiqued for the mildest infractions, yet deadwood employees are ignored rather than confronted. The best description of this culture might be "rampant apathy".

Pros

Great travel and health benefits

Cons

Horrible pay rates and some hours