Continental Airlines Flight Attendant
I've been offered a job as a fight attendant with Continental Airlines.
Any comments about the pros and or cons of the company or flight attendant position? I know little about working in the airline business. Thanks. |
Continental Airlines Flight Attendant
"Nellie" wrote in message ups.com... I've been offered a job as a fight attendant with Continental Airlines. Any comments about the pros and or cons of the company or flight attendant position? I know little about working in the airline business. Thanks. Seems like you should have been asking those questions before applying for a job. |
Continental Airlines Flight Attendant
Newby wrote:
"Nellie" wrote in message ups.com... I've been offered a job as a fight attendant with Continental Airlines. Any comments about the pros and or cons of the company or flight attendant position? I know little about working in the airline business. Thanks. Seems like you should have been asking those questions before applying for a job. She's the sharpest knife in the drawer, eh :) She should work with the DOD. We have plenty of people that she can be smarter than |
Continental Airlines Flight Attendant
In article .com,
Nellie wrote: Wow, sorry that I wasn't specific enough! You guys are harsh! Yes, they are. Probably not as harsh as some of your customers will be if you take the job, but that doesn't excuse the rudeness of either. I just wanted an insider's opinion, that's all! Airline employees have been fired for posting information their employers felt was not sufficiently positive, so you are unlikely to hear negative comments by the people who would know best. I'm a frequent customer of Continental, and the flight attendants don't seem particularly unhappy with their jobs; from the outside, I'd judge their job satisfaction as higher than Northwest or America West attendants, but lower than Southwest's. I haven't flown other airlines enough to have a valid opinion. -- Randy Hudson |
Continental Airlines Flight Attendant
Nellie wrote:
: I've been offered a job as a fight attendant with Continental Airlines. : Any comments about the pros and or cons of the company or flight : attendant position? I know little about working in the airline : business. Thanks. Hi Nellie, why not hang out at the airports a little and try to talk to a few randomly chosen CO flight attendants? Approach the "Union" for their take? Good luck. |
Continental Airlines Flight Attendant
Hello Nellie,
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:51:09 UTC, "Nellie" wrote: Wow, sorry that I wasn't specific enough! You guys are harsh! Okay so to spell things out in the most elementary way: I applied for the position, interviewed (and yes I asked questions and had them answered), and now I have been offered a position. I just wanted an insider's opinion, that's all! Maybe I was asking a bit too much for a bit of advice. Sorry for the confusion. Peace, airline folks. No need for hostility or sarcasm, really. I just thought you all could tell me some stuff I didn't learn in the interview. So yeah thanks again. I didn't chime in the first round, but my advice would be pretty much the same. Talk to the people inside the company and the people you'd be working with. Perhaps your potential employers could be helpful there. I'd suggest an improptu interview with your potential peers at the local airort. Security being what it is you might want to call ahead or start with the folks at the ticket counter. Find some flight attendants and perhaps other crew members to talk with. Good luck with your career, David |
Continental Airlines Flight Attendant
Mike Hunt wrote: Jim Davis wrote: Tchiowa wrote: Jim Davis wrote: Newby wrote: Seems like you should have been asking those questions before applying for a job. She said she was *offered* the job. She didn't say she applied for it. I wasn't aware that Continental went around randomly offering people jobs. A bit of the real world here. You can't possibly beleive that *all* jobs are procured through the "proper" employment channels of any company. In some cases, it only takes a friend or relitive. Oh, OK. A relative got her a job offer, and instead of asking the relative these questions, she asked people she doesn't know Amazing thread, even for rec.travel.air! :-) Actually, she was on a casting couch by a CO big wig. She impressed the BW immensely, but the BW couldn't offer a job because of the Union; so he had to launder the job offer through some union member, and she figureed the best way to ask her question is to a bunch of complete strangers most of whom are whacos so that they would not ask her how she got the job offer without applying or how she danced through the hoops of the union. Howzdat? Case closed. -- Reef Fish. |
Continental Airlines Flight Attendant
"Nellie" wrote in message ups.com... I've been offered a job as a fight attendant with Continental Airlines. Any comments about the pros and or cons of the company or flight attendant position? I know little about working in the airline business. Thanks. The airline business isn't what it used to be, but of the U.S. domestic carriers, Continental is arguably the best to work for. |
Continental Airlines Flight Attendant
In message . com
"Tchiowa" wrote: I wasn't aware that Continental went around randomly offering people jobs. If she was offerred a job, she applied for it. Continental might not, but in many areas this is typical. My current job was offered basically unsolicited, I didn't even give them a resume until well after two years of employment (and then only for immigration purposes, they were considering offering me relocation) My mom is a consultant in a completely different industry and hasn't interviewed for or applied for a job in over 30 years, and she's worked for about 20-25 companies over the years on projects lasting anywhere from 2 months to several years (she only does part time at each position, usually) It all depends on your skill level. I don't think flight attendants would have that specific a set of skills going in though, so I'd agree it's unlikely Continental would offer a position randomly. All that being said, there is nothing wrong with interviewing for a job, then refusing the offer when the offer becomes available. -- If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. |
Jim Davis vs the OLD PRO Mike Hunt in rec.travel.air
Jim Davis wrote: Mike Hunt wrote: Jim Davis wrote: Open your eyes. He asked the exact same question that you did, Would this mean I responded to one post before reading all of the followup posts thread? How do you read threads, in reverse order? I read them in order time & date. You asked the same question that was posted about 2 hours before. Jim, you are what's known in the internet as a "Clueless Newbie"! While what you said about Mike Hunt's post and yours are correct, you (Jim Davis) who has a LIVE TIME history of only 137 threads in group:rec.travel.air is flaming MIke Hunt who could have had that many threads in USENET newsgroups in 2 HOURS. :-) you were posting from Google in the thread, which is nicely threaded for YOU, in the order time & date, by Google! Mike Hunt, who posts 1000 times more frequently than you, in newsgroups in general, and in rec.travel.air in particular, posts and reads and posts (currently) from his ISP which is comcast, NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.180.135.84 OrgName: Comcast Cable Communications Inc. Address: 1800 Bishops Gate Blvd ,Mt Laurel, NJ through his email, via a shield of posting ID and feeds Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost Message-ID: so that neither newbies like you nor old pros like Nomen Nesco can touch him (by reporting abuse, real or unreal) for his posts by complaint to Google or his posting ISP comcast! You can find Nomen Nesco postmaster@localhost in 84 Google threads too, whie Mike Hunt had only 39 :-)) 84 for author:Nomen Nesco postmaster@localhost 39 for author: Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost Note Both Nemen and Mike are postmasters at "localhost? But that's only because Mike Hunt is the NEW posting Name for the MASTER, who had posted in rec.travel.air with the posting name of mrtravel, from protegy.net, and OTHER lesser known aliases of his in rec.travel.air, prior to his current name. For mrtravel (now Mike Hunt), you can find 1,880 threads from Jan 1, 2006 to Nov 30, 2006 for group:rec.travel.air author:mrtravel 6,730 threads for group:rec.travel.air author:mrtravel 13,300 threads for author:mrtravel in all newsgroups, and that's ONLY for "mrtravel". With that kind of READING and POSTING activities by Mike Hunt, you expect him NOT to Jim Davis You asked the same question that was Jim Davis posted about 2 hours before. Within 2 hours, Mike Hunt could have read and posted HUNDREDS of posts in dozens of newsgroups besides rec.travel.air! You FOOL, Jim Davis! Besides, this is a frivolous thread that only a Clueless Newbie FOOL like you would expect anyone else to pay close attention to who posted what 2 hours before. LOL. ROTFLMAO at you, for Mike Hunt, and everyone else who is NOT a clueless newbie in the rec.travel.air newsgroup or the internet. -- Reef Fish Bob. |
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