Tuition Reimbursement

[songbirdstew]

* Courses must benefit the employee and the company in the employee's current or realistic future positions and/or apply toward an identified company development plan.

I am an F/A in nursing school and tried to get the reimbursement. They told me that it was not applicable to my job......yeah right. The first F/A's HAD to be nurses....me handling an onboard emergency and not having to ask for medical help is not relevant???? What are they smoking ?????

 

[HP_JACK]

As flight attendants we should reimbursed for almost every class listed at a university or college after all we are:

1.bartenders
2.therapists
3.babysitters
4.nurses
5.actors/actrsses
6.garbage collectors
7.accountants
8.food servers
9.cleaners
10.bi-linguals... que quieres tomar?
11.crowd control
12.security gaurds
13.movie staff
14.logistics

I'm sure there is a lot more we have done.

 

[CLTBWIDAYSYR]

More annoying than the rejection was the cavalier attitude of the staff who called to tell me. Even through the phone, you could tell he had a smile on his face when he was speaking.

 

[dc3fanatic]

$1,000 annually to cover classes is nothing. Especially when something like an MBA costs $38,000. Our tuition reimbursement program is a load of crap. When I was working part-time on the ramp, and still working full time doing marketing, my old company would pay for your entire graduate degree. But, working for US Airways, I'd have to shell out about $30,000 out of my own pocket, on top of all of the school loans I have from my undergrad degree. Also, as said before, they don't cover certain classes, which is probably a lot but they're sure not going to tell you that.

MBA's from top schools can cost $100K plus.
Univ of Chicago
Kellogg
Harvard
Dartmouth
Yale
etc . . . all cost $100K plus to get a degree (this includes cheap housing and incidentals, but does NOT include any lost income estimates).

 

[oldiebutgoody]

Sorry,
but this company and most others now-a-days don't want people with any sort of feeling of self worth. It works against them. They only want folks that will work cheap. Even the quality of the job that gets done doesn't matter to them. Airlines of the 2000s are just the greyhound busses of the 1950s. Only difference is, service was far better on the busses, and they generally ran on time! Just "keeping it real."

 

[lostplanetairman]

MBA's from top schools can cost $100K plus.
Univ of Chicago
Kellogg
Harvard
Dartmouth
Yale
etc . . . all cost $100K plus to get a degree (this includes cheap housing and incidentals, but does NOT include any lost income estimates).

My MBA granted in 1998 cost over $70,000. But my employer paid for it! That was tuition alone as the school chosen is in my home city.

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