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My GOD where do I start?!
My first week a man decided to tell me he had a bomb in his bag! Reported this to the supervisor who called the Airport Duty Manager down. One hour later after his bags had been taken off the plane, everything including the passenger had been fully searched and the passenger had been questioned by counter terrorism police officers, they were actually stupid enough to let him carry on and fly to Dublin!

Training and Civil Aviation Authority guidelines are completely different! I constantly got told I was searching people incorrectly yet had no effort made to show me how it was supposed to be done (god knows how many knives I missed).

 Supervisors differed so much you didn't know what to expect. On pair would send me out and about the airport as I enjoyed doing that sort of thing, the other pair it was as though I had nails through my boots! Constantly being moved from the same two places all day, it was maddening!

The bullying and general nastiness about the place was a joke. One member of staff was so horrible and aggressive I made a formal complaint. 4 weeks later I had a statement taken all the while he was being more and more hostile towards me. Then it seemed management couldn't have cared less! Months after it turns out he's "copped a plea bargain" and done a runner to Newquay airport. An absolute joke! 

Half the passenger service girls are so far up themselves they're inside out! The other half seem to want nothing more than to run for the door! 

The shift patterns themselves were noexistant. I couldn't plan more than a few weeks ahead as one week was complelty different to the other. The 4-1-4 shifts were barbaric! Being made to work four 11.30-19.30 shifts, one day off and then into four 04.30-14.30 shifts. I doubt most owls are that bloody nocturnal!

Equipment is outdated and useless, god help us if there's an accident or worse at that airport! Zero radio discipline, half of them didn't work and the amount of times people were trying to talk to each other and one couldn't hear the other stood in the next room was unbelievable!
 The security truck look like the one Top Gear tried to wreck with a bit of red paint splashed on it, it's hilarious! 

Twice friends and family asked what I was supposed to do if someone pulled a knife or there was a terror attack, both times I had to answer that I hadn't actually been told what to do, I hadn't been trained for it! Towards the end I took to the idea of passengers hearing the words minimum wage and seeing me disappear in a cloud of dust!

This is the place people in the security industry either come to start their career in security or come to let it die as peacefully as possible. You'd be better off working for a gorrila at this stage.

Awful unsocial hours which aren't compensated. 
Contradictory security rules from training to civil aviation authority guidelines and undercover covert testing which means you can never win.
Management laughable! 
Awful work life balance because you spend your days off sleeping ready for your next unsocial hours which change weekly so you can't ever get a proper body clock sleep schedule.
Awful. Hated it and would never recommend anyone to go back there,
Things are always "being done". "Or in the pipeline" or "under review" but nothing ever changes. Holiday requests are still submitted on a paper slipfor goodness sake and rejected on managements whim with no explanation and usually dependent on how much you do Or do not suck up at the time. Impossible to pre plan Christmas break and holidays as holiday request for December not reviewed or granted until first week of December as a rule!
Equipment outdated and shoddy and constantly breaking down so constantly working with extra pressure and machinery that should have been replaced many years prior.
No career progression unless you are a suck up and even then the chances are slim.

It was only a temporary 6 month contract but i couldn't even bare to finish the contract and handed in my notice early.
The girls there (90% of the girls) was super horrible and would make no friendly contact, as though you was stepping into their territory. Why would they give you the time of day. If you had long hair you had to tie it back, which was reasonable but for some of the other staff who had longer hair than me! Was allowed to wear it down?! How was that fair?! 
No one trained me on the radios, so i didn't have a clue how to answer any calls if people was messaging.
One situation I had sent someones bag down which was heavy and i charged them extra for the excess and because of that I got BANNED from the flybe desk!! ridiculous and got sent to the the thomas cook desk on my own with none of the lights switched on, when check in wasn't even opened till 2 hours later!
I felt humiliated and so upset. I wanted to leave there and then!
It was absolutely ridiculous, they treated me like ive done something majorly wrong when it was just a simple mistake made.
SHOWS how much training they are willing to give you and the pay was absolute poor

Report to line manager for instruction. Area cleaning of airport both unsecured side plus secured airside. Including preparation of aircraft cabins. 

I gained knowledge in the differing areas of the airport. Ensuring my areas of responsibility were always at a clean and acceptable level. I learnt about the speed required to turn around an aircraft in preparation of the cabin prior to passengers boarding. Working within a dedicated team.

Management were professional fair in their approach to the workforce.

Co-workers were all pleasant to work with.

I did not experience any difficulties or hard part of the job. 

Meeting and dealing with the public at the airport, working within an excellent team.

Too much favouritism shown to some staff. Management show no interest in the day to day workings of some departments. Pay does not reflect the responsibilities of the job.
Work life balance non existent.

Flybe was a chaotic place to work for, with significant inefficiencies that ultimately cost the airline its stake. The people in lower management were great, however senior management either had no clue, or were completely inept in their role.

Applied for one role within the airport team and then got put into a different role within the airport team. Management didn't like how I challenged them about my start time and how I would have to catch the bus mainly as I couldn't drive.

lots of great haracters that help pass the time by, lots of great energy within the workplace my group were just great people dong their day to day jobs

lovely place to work great mangers very frendly staff but the hours are not great

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Chef 4 salaries reported	£32,509 per year
Kitchen assistant 5 salaries reported	£13.69 per hour
Customer service representative 6 salaries reported	£12.88 per hour
Hospitality manager 2 salaries reported	£14.91 per hour
Cook 3 salaries reported	£13.55 per hour

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