![]() ![]() Despite the salary, I used my benefits and enjoyed my first few years. ![]() What that would really come to mean later in my career was “accept unacceptable things and just deal with it.”Īfter almost 2 months of unpaid training we were thrown right on reserve after being assigned one of the most expensive cities in the US as a base. In training, we were told to be palm trees over and over again, to be flexible and bend with the wind. We all went to the “charm farm” after leaving our jobs, apartments and lives with no guarantee we would even make it to graduation. I was a 24 year old bartender with a sense of adventure and a half an English Literature degree when I applied to American Airlines.ħ 1/2 weeks of unpaid training should have been my first red flag. This job appeals to a really idealistic group of people who want to travel and think this job is a great way to be able to do that. My generation will not, and we are seeing that already. Right now, this company still has a lot of senior flight attendants who will stay until the bitter end. I feel that this will fall on deaf ears, but on the small chance that my voice will be heard, I would like to explain how this happened, because things need to change and you need to do better. As of March 1st, I am terminating my employment with American Airlines. I always thought I would be a flight attendant until I retired from the work force, but here I am writing my letter of resignation 9 years later. ![]()
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