Horrible leadership during the crisis. - Specialist Delta Air Lines Employee Review

2.0
Mar 18, 2021
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Pros

Flexibility to work from home (for now) Being able to travel places for free

Cons

The longer you stay, the worse your pay will be relative to new hires. There is a general unwillingness to advance your pay once they get you through the door. If you stay around for 5+ years, undergrads with no experience will get hired at a higher salary than you. Highly political! Exhibiting a cultish mentality is required to advance your career. Two faced leadership. Empty promises of promotions. You will get strung along by your manager to do a ton of extra work then be “rewarded” by being pressured into a lateral move to a neighboring team. Overworked individual contributors have not been rewarded for their sacrifices during the pandemic. A common theme: you and your coworkers do 150% of your normal work and get paid 75% of your normal salary. Meanwhile, US tax dollars are used to pay large bonuses to General Managers and above. Delta is more worried about looking ‘woke’ than actually paying minority front line workers a decent wage. Leaders over-index on talking about social issues because they see it as a marketing tool to win business.

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5.0
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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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