The text is interesting, but its lacking some property, it sounds like it has been written by someone who is not a crew.
Ive read some of the posts about it and there are people pleased and not pleased about it.
I worked there for a 18 MONTHS and I can say some things when it comes about rules. I had quite a normal life after having decided to ignore them, what led to my ¨Termination¨ later on. Hold on, we gonna get to this point later.
One of the most annoying rules is:
... "Staying overnight, outside of Company provided accommodation, regardless, whether or not you are on duty or on a day off (vacation included) is strictly prohibited.
Failure to follow these rule will lead to immediate termination. "; this is TRUE and not only that. If you happen to have a friend over, of the oppiste sex, for dinner, and by some unexpected trouble the dinner came out later, grab your dishes and walk out to finish eating at the street as I did a couple of times, otherwise, both you and your friend may be fired for having dinner after 22:00 Hs.
So far, I havent heard an argument that made me to understand the fact that you must sleep and be back in your place every single night before 03:30 Hs, on those days off. Be aware Im talking about the Days OFF, I understand the rules in your duty days, even though they are extreme under my point of view. However, your Day OFF is to be OFF, you should be supposed to have the chance to do any fucking crazy thing you feel like as long as your not going against the goverment laws.
About the 22:00 Hs time limit rule for friends of the oppsite sex to live your place, I wont even talk about. Everybody is enough grown up to know that people will do what they want to do regardless this rule, it is only there to fuck you up a bit more.
Its quite a bad move to compare these rules to a Concentration Camp, for the simple matter of respect to the Jewish people. However, you may compare Qatar Airways to the German Police, Gestapo, and I can give you a clear picture of my reasons to say so.
As I said before I ended up fired for not following the rules, particularly the one about being back home before 03:30hs. I got a call from the office asking for my presence after being back from a flight. I showed up for the meeting at the time and I was led to a smaller room by a performance officer. Right after someone else joined us and this guy started talking about my minimun rest. Such is the way they track you down in that company that I was shown a picture of myself with the exactly time I had swaped my ID card at the entrance of the building printed at the right upper side of the paper. He asked if I could recognise myself and if I would agree with the time shown on the paper. The way the whole thing were conducted made me feel like I was being caught at a crime scene. Seriously, It may sound silly for you, but when you are there, attending to a meeting that can change your life and this crazy people come up to you with reports and pictures of yourself coming home later, 14 min. in my case, everything appers to be surreal. You feel like a small powerless piece of shit with your life totally in somebody´s hands. So, take care, if you are in Doha, you gotta to know you are being watched and they will get you for the things you do in your free time, for the way you live your private life, in other words we could put things like this: you´ll probably be fired for something you gonna do and it won´t have any relation to you job at all.
Thats why I was actually happy when I was fired and this whole bullshit life had ended up. On the top of that the people who works with you in the aircraft are the most lunatic, rude, stupid and non-sense I have ever had the chance to meet. If you are flying, you know what Im talking about.
Another point I should make a point about is the gossiping and the crazy things you hear about how people get fired. Ok, some of then may be exaggerated but where there are so many people saying similar things, some must be true. I heard myself about a girl, wellfare officer, who after working for 10 years at QR, got fired because she received a crew member, at the Wellfare Villa, and this crew member was wearing converse shoes, since this crew member was sitting, the wellfare officer couldnt see the converse shoes, but still, she got reported by a co worker and was fired. I was told that by a wellfare officer who once refused to receive me since I wasn´t wearing a belt.
The reporting culture is also something that you must learn to live with if you either living or planning to live in Doha as a QR employee.
About your accommodation bare in mind you and only you will use it.
About your uniform, well, to make a long story short, the only thing you can do in uniform is to work. Eletronic gadgets are not allowed in any place, not only in the crew bus as mentioned on the article. People go get fired for this reason, trust me.
There are good things about this job, you do get to travel a lot, its quite an amazing experience to see places and to have this kind of live for a while, however, what really made me to be able of keeping happy memories from Doha time, are the friends that I made during my time in Qatar. Truly amazing people that I miss and I´ll always be happy if I have a chance to catch up with them, sometime, somewhere.
The text is interesting, but its lacking some property, it sounds like it has been written by someone who is not a crew.
Ive read some of the posts about it and there are people pleased and not pleased about it.
I worked there for a 18 MONTHS and I can say some things when it comes about rules. I had quite a normal life after having decided to ignore them, what led to my ¨Termination¨ later on. Hold on, we gonna get to this point later.
One of the most annoying rules is:
... "Staying overnight, outside of Company provided accommodation, regardless, whether or not you are on duty or on a day off (vacation included) is strictly prohibited.
Failure to follow these rule will lead to immediate termination. "; this is TRUE and not only that. If you happen to have a friend over, of the oppiste sex, for dinner, and by some unexpected trouble the dinner came out later, grab your dishes and walk out to finish eating at the street as I did a couple of times, otherwise, both you and your friend may be fired for having dinner after 22:00 Hs.
So far, I havent heard an argument that made me to understand the fact that you must sleep and be back in your place every single night before 03:30 Hs, on those days off. Be aware Im talking about the Days OFF, I understand the rules in your duty days, even though they are extreme under my point of view. However, your Day OFF is to be OFF, you should be supposed to have the chance to do any fucking crazy thing you feel like as long as your not going against the goverment laws.
About the 22:00 Hs time limit rule for friends of the oppsite sex to live your place, I wont even talk about. Everybody is enough grown up to know that people will do what they want to do regardless this rule, it is only there to fuck you up a bit more.
Its quite a bad move to compare these rules to a Concentration Camp, for the simple matter of respect to the Jewish people. However, you may compare Qatar Airways to the German Police, Gestapo, and I can give you a clear picture of my reasons to say so.
As I said before I ended up fired for not following the rules, particularly the one about being back home before 03:30hs. I got a call from the office asking for my presence after being back from a flight. I showed up for the meeting at the time and I was led to a smaller room by a performance officer. Right after someone else joined us and this guy started talking about my minimun rest. Such is the way they track you down in that company that I was shown a picture of myself with the exactly time I had swaped my ID card at the entrance of the building printed at the right upper side of the paper. He asked if I could recognise myself and if I would agree with the time shown on the paper. The way the whole thing were conducted made me feel like I was being caught at a crime scene. Seriously, It may sound silly for you, but when you are there, attending to a meeting that can change your life and this crazy people come up to you with reports and pictures of yourself coming home later, 14 min. in my case, everything appers to be surreal. You feel like a small powerless piece of shit with your life totally in somebody´s hands. So, take care, if you are in Doha, you gotta to know you are being watched and they will get you for the things you do in your free time, for the way you live your private life, in other words we could put things like this: you´ll probably be fired for something you gonna do and it won´t have any relation to you job at all.
Thats why I was actually happy when I was fired and this whole bullshit life had ended up. On the top of that the people who works with you in the aircraft are the most lunatic, rude, stupid and non-sense I have ever had the chance to meet. If you are flying, you know what Im talking about.
Another point I should make a point about is the gossiping and the crazy things you hear about how people get fired. Ok, some of then may be exaggerated but where there are so many people saying similar things, some must be true. I heard myself about a girl, wellfare officer, who after working for 10 years at QR, got fired because she received a crew member, at the Wellfare Villa, and this crew member was wearing converse shoes, since this crew member was sitting, the wellfare officer couldnt see the converse shoes, but still, she got reported by a co worker and was fired. I was told that by a wellfare officer who once refused to receive me since I wasn´t wearing a belt.
The reporting culture is also something that you must learn to live with if you either living or planning to live in Doha as a QR employee.
About your accommodation bare in mind you and only you will use it.
About your uniform, well, to make a long story short, the only thing you can do in uniform is to work. Eletronic gadgets are not allowed in any place, not only in the crew bus as mentioned on the article. People go get fired for this reason, trust me.
There are good things about this job, you do get to travel a lot, its quite an amazing experience to see places and to have this kind of live for a while, however, what really made me to be able of keeping happy memories from Doha time, are the friends that I made during my time in Qatar. Truly amazing people that I miss and I´ll always be happy if I have a chance to catch up with them, sometime, somewhere.
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