Originally Posted by
757Driver
As a participant I believe the time frame you spoke of was the early 90's. While I was hired 3 years prior to that at miserable ol' CAL, I do recall attempting to get a UAL job several years after being hired. During the process I found out that I didn't have the proper plumbing, (see cooter), and I didn't process a unique ethnicity.
You failed to mention that small tidbit in your lambasting of the average CAL Pilot hired during that time period. To branch out and say that the average pilot hired at CAL during that time frame was inferior to the average UAL hire would be a bit of a stretch don't you think?
Your statement in regards to why you couldn't get hired is simply known as rationalization. The forced period of EEOC hiring was over by then. And it also brings up the obvious, if CAL was so great why were you trying to get on at UAL. No cooter or ethic advantage here nor was there for the vast majority of guys hired throughout the 90's.
Finally I was not "lambasting" CAL guys. I am simply sick and tired of having some of your pilot children making statements like "you should have chosen better" in regards to initial hiring. Fact, plain and simple and irrefutably that CAL was a nightmare airline from the 80's through most of the 90's. A last choice place to be until it started to turn around under Bethune. Some of these kiddies don't realize how much luck there is in regards to picking the winning the airline career lottery ticket. And I've got news for all of you, it ain't over yet! Your little dream career can go from sunshine and blue skies to swimming in a cesspool faster than you can say "career expectations." Time will tell.