Angela Andrechyn left the world’s largest airline after nine years of service with a resignation letter that has gone viral and made headlines across the United States.
She wrote to her employer that, She always thought she would work as a flight attendant until she retired, but unfortunately, she wrote her resignation letter nine years later. She will end up her employment with American Airlines on March 1st.
Although she was concerned that this would be ignored, if her voice is heard, she would like to explain how this occurred because things must improve, and you must change. There are still a lot of senior flight attendants working for this company right now who will stick around until the end. They already witness that her generation will not.
Angela Andrechyn also stated that People who want to travel and think this job is a great way to do so are very interested in this position. When she applied for the airline, she was a bartender of 24 years old with an adventurous spirit and a half-degree in English Literature.
Her first warning sign should have been seven and a half weeks of unpaid training. After leaving her homes, jobs, and lives without any assurance that she would graduate, they all went to the “charm farm.” They were repeatedly instructed during training to be flexible and able to bend with the wind, like palm trees. Later in her career, that would mean “accept unacceptable things and just deal with them.”
They were given a base in one of the most expensive cities in the United States after nearly two months of unpaid training. $500 was her first paycheck. She took advantage and enjoyed her first few years despite the salary. During her European vacations, she stayed in hostels and enjoyed her layovers.
It took her roughly five years to achieve financial stability. Covid occurred shortly after that. On her flight from CLT to JFK, she had just witnessed a woman suffer a cardiac arrest on the tarmac. she performed compressions on the lady by herself for ten minutes. The lady died because she was exhausted. That was the beginning of Angela’s issues over the next few years.
They went through that collective trauma a few weeks later when Covid hit us hard. Because it was personal to every one of them, the personal details are irrelevant. They were fearful, lost loved ones, and their livelihoods were suddenly jeopardized.
They were stranded all over the country at the airport and during layovers without food options. They prayed that they wouldn’t get sick while working on flights. They were requested to act as the masked police, and they attempted to allay everyone’s fears. The passengers lost all awareness. Every day, all the crew members were verbally and physically assaulted and feared losing their jobs.
To keep a few people from being furloughed, they were asked to take voluntary leaves of absence if any of them were able to. Many of them were nonetheless granted furloughs because they decided to take extended leave and fulfil other commitments. Since everything was so brief, furloughs were essentially paid time off, and those who selflessly took extended vacations and made plans with their free time were compelled to return immediately or lose their jobs.
Numerous returning flight attendants were relocated and forced to commute. Though this wasn’t all sufficiently terrible, one of the most cash-hungry organizations quit charging travellers to income reserve on flights, making their flight help futile other than the restricted jumpseats accessible. It was difficult to ignore the obvious lack of support. Since then, things have gone downhill. The passengers became enraged and violent. The skies have not been friendly at all. They don’t feel like management is behind them. There has been an exponential rise in delays, sit time, irregular operations, and general unpaid time spent at work. They all have been due for five hours on a plane multiple times. She must monitor my schedule to ensure she is paid appropriately and with payment protection.
She doesn’t know how often she has been stuck in hurricanes and blizzards on hold for hours with tracking and a hotel limousine waiting for transportation or hotels. She was sick of working for others, especially when she wasn’t paid for half of what they did.
She had a spotless record throughout her nine years here. She has endeavoured to be her best flight attendant. she comforted anxious flight attendants and mourners heading to funerals and held babies for mothers travelling alone. Despite this job’s increasing pressure and stress over the past few years, she tried to be as loving and caring as possible.
A final thought will serve as her conclusion: “Finding people willing to work for pennies and care for such a large number of dissatisfied customers daily is difficult. You treat them badly, just like you treat your underpaid, overworked employees, and then you leave us all to clean up the mess you don’t give us the resources to fix. I’m one of many people who have had enough of being a part of the machine. You are losing a very good employee, and I know that many more will follow me, even though no one will care. I should get better. Better is what we owe.”
