Great company but not worth the stress - Reservation Specialist Delta Air Lines Employee Review

2.0
May 31, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flying benefits.- However, it is very hard to get on a plane out of DFW if you have no seniority and unless you travel during a week day at 5am. Paid Holidays & 41K Company is great. Truly take care of their customers. Culture of the company is good as well.

Cons

Management is awful. They will put you out there and not much help is provided. They set you up for failure They put the fear of God on you if you have an emergency and have to miss work ONE day during training class Lot's of gossip and drama in the office environment. If you are a RES specialist, get ready for awful shifts (as the company runs by seniority) and also for VERY VERY VERY VERY stressful calls. This job made me hate people. You take the punches since you are the first point of contact. This position took a toll in my marriage, my health since my first 3 shifts were 8pm-4:30am with Tuesday and Wednesday off. My biological system was all messed up. So many people working those hours also advised me how your quality of life would be so poor, and it was so true. Also, many people there who had been with the company for a long time told me to leave because it would kill my marriage as they had said how IT killed theirs. I developed anxiety due to this job. If I had to miss work for something serious, I was so anxious at how it would be handled by management on the next day I showed up. They would pull you out of your station and give you this awful speech about how you would be fired or on a warning. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL. Worse position I have ever had. The flying is only good if you do it international destinations, and good luck if you try to fly to Atlanta with a new seniority. Pay is low for all the stuff you have to do. After taxes are taken off, you have very little of income. The turnover for this position is HUGE!

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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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