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I've decided to call it quits.
After 15 years of aviation, most of it in corporate jets I don't beleive I can take it anymore.
My story: I worked for a large corporate management company (name starts with Sky and ends with service) taking care of a G500 and a Citation Bravo in Windsor, manage the hangar and deal with all the owner's requests (including work on his twin turbine powered catamaran race boat) doing the work that used to have 2 engineers by myself. I was always on call, worked ALONE (which I beleive is against the labour codes) often 10, 12-14 hrs during the week and then have to do an arrival or departure on the week end when the owner came or left to go to his 164ft yacht in the Bahamas or the "winter home" in Scottsdale. When I asked head office for back up they'd say "can the groomer do it??" ARE YOU F*CKIN' KIDDING ME??? 1) the groomer was contracted not an employee 2) he had a grade 12 education no technical knowledge of aircraft let alone multimillion dollar jets!
After a year & a half of this I asked for a raise & more time off, I was told take 5% or you're fired. Gee, what a choice! I have a mortgage to pay & kids to feed. Just before Christmas the owner found out I had applied for another job (which btw, DIDN'T pay more, but had week ends off, 8-5 days and a pension) and made the decision to get rid of me.
4 months later, the day after I returned from a week vacation in Cuba with my wife (it took me a year to save up for, & it was our long overdue (12 years) honeymoon) the DOM walked in and said "effective immediately you are terminated from employment with SS" Not 5 minutes later, my replacement walked in (most likely for lesser pay)
This is how they (the owner) treat you after 5.5 years of taking care of their jets, looking out for THEIR best interest, coming into work sick (including with H1N1 to change an FCU), & telling me that I was "their guy, not SS's". I was beaten down, run through the ringer and when the dog started to yip and bark they replaced me, when I asked about being transfered to YYZ, the DOM told me I "had a bad attitude" (I guess when some stooge in QA or Accounting calls looking for some piece of paper & is too lazy to get off their ass to find it themselves in their own files, that I'm to drop whatever I'm doing, including fixing the customer's plane!) and I was a "complainer". I suspect they were pissed @ me because the aircraft never came to them for large inspections (which was the owners decision) and blamed me. And now, lies are being told about me so that others can save face. Saying I refused to work on the owners boat, refused to accompany the a\c on an overseas trip (when I was the one who VOLUNTEERED to go, but the OWNER refused!) & had a "bad attitude" and didn't want me to "influence his (DOM's) team"!! (what a f'ing joke! That would be the same team that's jumping ship to go work for WestJet for LESS pay????)
I'll admit I was paid well, ($90,000\yr) but I was never home, and hardly had anytime off. But I am tired. Tired of being treated as a second or third class employee, that human factors don't apply to me, that I can work 24 hrs straight & still EXPECTED to have "the right attitude". When I was home I was too tired to do anything & usually grumpy.
And it's not just this particular company! It's ALL of them. the AME designation should be changed to DOG. They whip & beat you until you snarl back & then they replace you.
My qualifications?? M1\M2 license endorsements on Cessna Citation 500\550\Bravo, 560XL, 750, Challenger 604 & Gulfstream G500\550, Line maintenance courses on Williams FJ44, P&WC PW545 & PW306 & RR AE3007 plus an Avionics course on the Honeywell Planeview system for the G350,450,500,550.
Where will I go?? I'm looking into robotics, more job opportunities, same or better pay & less responsibilities.
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) and of course I miss the classroom fun. Your previous director of maintenance may have missed a few steps on the way up then again there's people that struggle in every job. I'll suggest those that make things look easy are the ones who put in an effort not understood by most until they subject themselves to the same environment.
is a great life....you just have to learn where and how to apply your skills.....and money wise...well there is a fortune to be made...............
