I’m having a friend write this because my English is not very good. This is for AAR Aircraft Services Miami. Micromanaging is the law of the land. If you’re not from a certain island 100 miles away from Key West, your chances of being promoted are nil. It takes several years to become a direct employee. You see raises of less than $2 in several years, regardless of how good you are. The management purposely rates you lower in your evaluations, despite your lead/supervisor’s recommendations, to avoid giving you a meaningful raise, but their friends from that island 100 miles from Key West and whoever does their dirty work (backstabbing, micromanaging, throwing you under the bus to save themselves despite them demanding that you do what got you in trouble in the first place) get 5s and meaningful raises. If employees are harassed by management, and the employees go to local HR, nothing gets done, and if employees try to escalate by involving corporate HR, the local management covertly fires them in retaliation, covering it up as a furlough. They hired many contractors to take advantage of the money the federal government was giving out to corporations who retained workers during the pandemic, and laid them off afterwards. They order you to pencilwhip things on a regular basis and rush you to get the job done, and then they throw you under the bus for any slip ups that are discovered. During training, and in their ‘work core values’, they say for you not to be rushed and to do things right the first time, but once you’re on the hangar floor, it’s all rush rush rush, sign it. (Pencilwhipping is the action of signing for aircraft work when it wasn’t really performed right or not at all, something you don’t want to happen when you and your family are flying on that aircraft. By the way, they service United and Southwest aircraft in the Miami facility). They force you to use aging equipment that doesn’t work properly and expect you to “make the test pass”. They only replace the equipment when threatened by the airline, so your only hope is to speak directly to the airline reps with your concerns, but be ready to be fired for ‘insubordination’. Health insurance, don’t expect much. For family, expect to pay $200-300 per check (every two week) and still get destroyed if you have to go to the ER. They will treat you coldly when you find better employment and call you ungrateful, threatening to never hire you back (which would be a favor really.)
