Author: Olivia

Tales from working as a line tech at a private airport (FBO). For further clarification a line tech is basically a full service gas station attendant for small to business class aircraft. Not that you should shy away from an FBO job but my base was mostly a hub for sports charters and executives/celebrities/politicians. Very rare to see a student pilot or military. Most executives wouldn't tip. The ones that did usually gave $20 to the one person who handled bags. I had an unwritten policy that we split tips at the end of the shift, but I digress. $20 usually landed around a .15%-.008% tip. And unlike most high-end services, gratuity is not included. This got really infuriating when I Google your net worth and compare my excitement level when I find $20, and it would take $38,000 for you to be just as excited. Then you get to…

There is a summer camp near where I live in California offering a position for an equestrian director. They are offering a salary range of $6k to $10k based on experience for 13 weeks over summer and while that sounds not horrible for a summer job they are asking for 6 days a week, 7 am to 10 pm with a lunch and dinner a half hour each. Food and lodging provided. I am not a mathematician but 90 hours a week over 13 weeks for the top range of their offered salary comes around to 7 dollars an hour BELOW minimum wage or 6.5 dollars below agriculture minimum wage. Am I missing something about this situation or is it as illegal and insane as it seems?

I was being honest in an anonymous, all-employee survey about how I feel about the company, work/life balance, etc. There were 10 questions that you could answer using 1-5 stars. I used mostly 2 or 3 stars. I didn’t think my comments would be sent to our team’s manager but my anonymous comments and everyone else’s on the team (5 people, not including the manger) were sent to the manager. It sounds like she’s been sniffing around to ask different members of the team how they’re feeling, if they’re overwhelmed, etc. to get through the anonymity. I think my responses were specific enough that she could narrow it down to me. I’m extremely concerned she and my direct manager will start to side eye me and may even demote me or want to me leave the company. Any support or advice would help xoxo

We work for nothing to line the pockets of the already Rich ,they would like nothing better than to have us wait on them hand and foot till we are mentally ill and used up, meanwhile we end up with NOTHING!!