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Vlad, Peter, DeeAir Safety Flight Academy Management Company only cares about themselves and not there employees Glendale Arizona
I just want to first say that I was very glad when I first obtained this Job at Air Safety. It was a change of career for me and I thought a good choice. About two months after I starting working for the company, I noticed that there was absolutely no communication between departments. Whenever a new task was to take place it was told to you on the spot without any notification. This raised a red flag to me right from the very beginning. I thought is this how this company operates, they just pull things out of there hats and slam them on you with out notice and you are to adapt immediately.
Well I thought maybe this was a one-time situation, but then it started happening all the time. I thought to myself that the company has serious organization issues and they have no planning. Then the big changes came, the company acquired a huge contract of students from China, and went from small operation to a big operation almost overnight. I want to stay focused on the effects this company had on me in my position as a transportation employee. I took great pride in my work as the company grew. I was responsible for transporting students on a fixed route, which had serious defects within the design of the route. Most of the time you had to go over the speed limit to stay on-time.
Then there was the maintenance of the vehicles, which was virtually non-existent. The 44-passenger bus had serious issues right from the very beginning. We drove the bus illegally all the time because we would report issues that needed fixed over and over and the issues would never get fixed. Many issues were serious DOT issues in which we could have been ticketed for. We drove the bus for 4 months without any emergency flashers which by law is illegal to drive a bus without emergency flashers due to boarding and de- boarding of passengers. There we also times we drove the bus with tires that were below the legal limit witch was illegal, but again all these issues were reported but Air Safety chose not to correct the maintenance issues. Keep in mind we were transporting the schools students in these vehicles. Had a blown out tire occurred Lord knows what could have happened. I prayed every day when I came into work. Not only did the larger bus have safety issues, but the smaller 14 passenger vans had their share of maintenance issues as well. Driving on illegal tire tread limits, non operative seat belts in the front passenger area, and an older van that needed to go to the junk yard, it had seen its days.
So I was quite worried using these vehicles on a daily basis, but had to do my job, and that I did very well. I came to work everyday and was never late, did pre checks on all the vehicles every day (Which I cant say to much for another transportation employee) He eventually became buddy buddy with the management, which was his intention all the time, so he could move up the latter. I found out in the end (my last day) after I quit that my co-worker was talking behind my back to management, and I actually trusted him the entire time I worked there. (Be careful whom you trust)
Then the layoff came without notice on 11/21/08. We were all gathered in the lobby of the airport and told we had no job. We only got a bottom of the barrel paycheck to leave with and never got paid for one week of pay, which I am in the process now of filing a notice with the labor board to try and get my pay check. I was called back to work on 12/1/08 but stripped of pay, deletion of all benefits, health, dental ect. I worked for the company a few months after that and finally had to make a decision to find work elsewhere. I needed more than a paycheck, I needed security and benifits which I came to the conclusion I would never have that with Air Safety. I loved my students though, they were the only ones who treated me with dignity and respect, and I actually cried the day I left and I shook all of there hands.
All I can say is that the management of this company has allot to learn about running a company and treating employees with respect. How about an occasional (your doing a great job, we appreciate your hard work) Never did I ever hear those words come out of anyone's mouth except Mark? (Thanks Mark) Unless you change the way you respect your employees and be more evolved and informed about what they do you will never have lasting employees that will work for you. I have said my peace. ( Oh an one last thing I still have not received my w2's for tax filings. I guess I will have to report that as well.
Ex-employee
Glendale, Arizona
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Ex-employee
Glendale,Arizona,
U.S.A.
Update to my oroginal post - Air Safety - Setting the story straight from the original poster.
#2Author of original report
Thu, February 26, 2009
I want to say that some of the statements in this post were not properly worded and not entirely true. I wrote the president of the Company a letter apologizing for posting the statement and it was not my intention for this to go so public, or to bring down someones company or anything like that. I should have sent a personal email instead of posting on here voicing my concerns. I wanted the public to read the letter I sent the President of the company in regards to this post. Since you cannot delete the original post all I could do is try to send a new statement to say that I'm sorry if this post has caused any trouble for the company, and that I wish I could retract what I said because I feel really ashamed that I didn't have all the facts straight.
The Letter to the President of Air Safety sent on 2/25/09:
I wanted to write you and clarify some statements that I posted on the report at Ripoff Report. I want to apologize to you if you misunderstood some of the statements I made in the post. I had no intention of trying to bring the company down or any thing like that. I simply wanted to voice my opinion about how I felt I was treated as an employee. I probably should have came to you directly with these issues instead of shying away and saying nothing. When I first got my cdl license and then you hired the other drivers I remember you had said to me, that I had the pick of the shifts, and that I was your main man. That made me feel important as an employee, I thought that I was kinda the head of the transportation department, because I really did want to move up but it didn't happen. As time went on I felt that the information about the vehicles needing service, being out of compliance as far as the tires, flashers and the other maintenance items was not reaching your desk, and maybe you did not know about this because you were not informed and should have been informed. I did feel like no one cared, I'm just a very sensitive person and it takes allot to push me to talk with the president of the company. That's probably why I never came to you cause I didn't know how you would react. I just wanted to come in and do my job and not cause any trouble for anyone. I did feel that Robert was taking over everything. There in the end he was taking care of all the reports that I had once done for Mark, so that made me feel very unimportant. Well there is no easy way to say that I am sorry for posting the information at ripoff report. If I could retract, or re word what I said I would. I did try to delete the post but you cannot delete, you could only add a further comment to try and set things straight, which I did add a comment to try and clear things up. I did state that the vehicles were repaired right before I left the company, and I stated that there are many company's that have communication problems and that Air Safety is not immune to being perfect. I don't want to cause any trouble with you or the company, I just want to say I apologize for posting the information in the way that I did. If there is anything that I can do to make things right please let me know, but please don't take me to court over this, I truly didn't realize that this would have such an effect on you as it has. Please check the post again, I tried to explain the best I could in hopes of setting the story straight.
Sincerely
Tim A Scott