You’ll be fired if you’re out sick on approximately three different occasions, regardless of how long you’ve been employed, even with a Doctor’s note. You accrue sick leave, but you can’t use it without penalty. They tell you that you should come in sick and that your job is more important than your health. They make you sign a contract that says you promise to not have any commitments in your life besides JetBlue. They will try to convince you to drop out of college if you’re a student. Don’t buy into it. They won’t let you use your international flight benefits most of the time despite telling you otherwise when you first receive the job, and you won’t have the option to use your domestic flight benefits because you’ll be too busy and will be penalized for taking leave. If you take time off, they’ll automatically suspend access to flight benefits so that you can’t use them. They won’t reinstate benefits sometimes until after you’ve been back for a few weeks. Your raise will be mere pennies for the first several years of your employment. It does not offset the rate of inflation, so the purchasing power of your salary constantly goes down. The pay is only $19 an hour to begin with. If you’re dependent on public transport, they’ll schedule you when it’s not operating and tell you to arrive to work several hours early so that you can board the last subway there before the MBTA system closes for the night. This means you spend around 15 hours a day working, commuting, and waiting onsite, but you’re only paid for 8 of those hours. The training is brutal. You have to learn life saving information in the span of less than a month. They’re putting a ton of lives at risk by overworking their employees and forcing them to learn this crucial information without providing sufficient time to learn it. You have to learn how to do pretty much every job in the airport. You WILL have to throw 50 pound suitcases for three hours at a time with no breaks. It’s brutal, backbreaking work and is not disability friendly. I came home every day in so much pain. The managers have no idea who you are and are often in the back playing games on their phone while you break your back. The gesture that JetBlue requires you to do instead of point (because pointing is too “aggressive,” they claim) is a racist salute from Germany, if you know what I mean. This is genuinely the worst place I’ve ever worked. It was extremely dystopian. I witnessed so many illegal practices that they’re somehow getting away with. They control everything about you, including the color of your underwear. I’m 99% sure that there’s a camera in the break room mirror. This company has lost money pretty much every year since the pandemic, and they’re treating workers horribly in an attempt to cut costs.
