Dylan Smith wrote in message ...

Once again, it's the means. It's all very well yelling "So MOVE!", but
as you undoubtedly know, unless you can be bankrolled by someone
who will take the risk, opening your own flight school from the
position of the vast majority of flight instructors is not possible -
they simply don't have the resources. They probably don't have the
resources to even move away from home!

So the position they are in: either flight instruct for poor pay at
a flight school that doesn't respect its employees, or not flight
instruct at all.

With respect, Dylan, and with some ignorance of the job market in
UK, it does seem as though there must be other alternatives.

For example, seems to me the flight instructor could work at another
job for a bit, save money, pool his resources to share apartments
and such, and work for a better flight school somewhere else.

I do agree completely with (what I take to be) your point that
not everyone has the enterpreneurial spirit, nor should it be
required as an alternative to being treated like spit.

OTOH harkening back to the start of this thread, I'm pretty sure
you don't disagree that being treated poorly or unfairly
on a job is no wise equivalent to slavery, theft, or murder.

No, nobody's saying that. What I am trying to explain (but obviously
failing) is that a good employee-employer relationship is built on
mutual trust. Exploitation of young, often life-inexperienced CFIs who
don't yet have access to any significant resources is just not on.
Saying that they aren't entrepenurial doesn't make it any more
acceptable. Many flight schools would do much, much better if the owners
showed not only respect, but more entreprenurial spirit than they are
now! Why do so many people not realise that mutual trust and respect
between employees and employers is often a very important part of a
successful business?

Very well put!

Sydney