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Ready Reserve - Ready Reserve Above Wing Delta Air Lines Employee Review

2.0
2 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Delta's "Rules of the Road" are the foundation for a great workplace- if only they were for all employees. Flight benefits that you can't use- impossible to get time off. Benefits for full time/benefited workers are good. Allowed to trade shifts, but difficult as always under staffed and overworked.

Cons

It is impossible to get time off. Ready Reserves work all holidays, all weekends This is normal in the airline industry, as scheduling is based on seniority, but being unable to ever drop shifts or get unpaid personal days is not. Any personal time (other than death in family) is usually denied in favor of a benefited full time employee. They get paid vacation time, at least twice a year and are able to have time off to use flight benefits. Ready Reserve is supposed to be a part time job, but we work 5 days a week just like benefited employees. Our shifts are 2 hours less than full time shifts. We are expected to have the same knowledge, skills, and responsibility as benefited employees. We are held to the same standards. Absolutely a 2nd class of workers. In Nashville, Ready Reserves are waiting as long as 7 years to be upgraded to benefited worker.

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5.0
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Pros

Awesome company to work for! Fun work environment, cares about employees, great uniforms, competitive pay, just an awesome company to work for! They are very flexible, you can live anywhere in the world you want, as long as your able to get to work when you need to be there!

Cons

At the end of the day, it is a very large corporation. So it is very easy to become just a "number" in the company. The flight attendant group is not unionized, so rules can change very often. Make sure your time management is impeccable, because you cannot be late for work AT ALL, and there aren't many acceptable excuses, even rain is not an excuse.

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Delta Air Lines Response
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Thank you for your review and recommendation of Delta. We work hard every day to make Delta a great place to work; it’s nice to hear how much you enjoy our company and our work environment. Our people and our culture are our most important competitive advantages and the direct relationship we have enjoyed with our flight attendants has served our people, our customers and our company very well. To that end, we have a strong open door policy that enables any employee to go directly to a leader with any concerns, and we have hundreds of flight attendants who are actively engaged in our business, providing feedback and working on solutions for their colleagues and our customers. At Delta, a consistent, reliable operation is one of the reasons our top customers come back to fly with us time and again. That makes employee reliability – being on time, every day, for your shift or your flight – especially important. We agree that having a fundamental understanding of the flight attendant role is important for our field leaders, and we also value diversity at all levels of the company. That’s why so many of our field leaders are flight attendant qualified and many still fly when their schedules allow. We appreciate your feedback and will be sharing it with our In-Flight team. –Wendy, Talent Acquisition Team
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