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Benefitted Employee Does NOT mean Full Time - Ramp Agent/Baggage Handler Delta Air Lines Employee Review

3.0
13 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great flight benefits, Alright health benefits. Profit sharing is good sometimes, but how much you get is dependent on how many hours you work.

Cons

They hire you under the guise you'll get full time hours, but what they don't tell you is that even though you're a "benefitted" employee they can't guarantee you'll get 40 hours a week. Which not only affects your paycheck, but your vacation time. They won't guarantee you 40 hours, but will still ask you to come into work early or stay late almost every day because they're always short staffed. This is how the company saves money. They don't have to pay you for a full week worth of vacation if they schedule you for less hours and ask you to work overtime. By the way, it's not considered full time until you pass 40 hours worked. This does not include any hours you swap or pick up from coworkers. So no matter what to get to Overtime, you have to pick up unscheduled hours by coming early or staying late depending on their needs. Again, these hours are NOT counted towards your paid time off/vacation. So it doesn't matter how many of them you work, you still only get vacation time based off what you win in the seasonal bid. This is how Delta scams their employees out of their time, overtime pay, and vacation.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

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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