Company works hard to keep expenses low, including employee salaries. Many employees are pressured into salary positions, and are volunteered to work long hours during travel. During 'Airshow Season' you can expect days beginning well before sunrise for 'All Hands' meetings and ending well into the night, sometimes after 9 or 10pm. If you are an hourly employee, management will be quick to send you back to your hotel to avoid reaching overtime hours, and place your tasks on the shoulders of salary employees. Many promotions from hourly to salary, i.e. Technician to Senior Technician, will overall net a decrease in pay and in increase in working hours. Many projects are executed at the whim of senior management, specifically in marketing, publications, and communications, without adequate research and supporting evidence of success. For this reason, hundreds of man hours and millions of donor dollars are spent on projects that often fall apart prior to launch, or launch and dissipate after s short lifespan. Upper Management lacks the drive to help entry and middle level employees grow with the company and participate in the ideas and strategies that will help the industry and this organization recover from its long-term decline.
