Originally Posted by Two-percent View Post
How does Delta look at an applicant who did not give two-weeks notice to a previous employer?




I'll tell you how they knew when I did it. My former Chief Pilot called Delta and told them I quit on a layover!

That got me a one on one interview with Capt. Snake Smith on my first day of class. He wanted an explanation.

I told him I would have liked to have given them two weeks notice, but since Delta only gave me 48 hours notice to be in that class, that morning, I had to quit on the layover (in my home town) so that I could be in class on time.

Delta called me at 8am on a Weds., to be in class on Friday morning. Of course I said, "No Problem, I'll be there!" Then I picked up the phone and called my employer and told them I was sorry but I had to quit, right now.

I knew they had a reserve pilot sitting in a crash pad in IND, I had just seen him at 2am, and I knew they had all day to DH him to BOS to fly the DC9 out that night, which they did. The airplane left BOS on time at 9pm that night. I know this because I spoke with the Capt. Weds. morning and again a few days later when I ran into him in bar at the Holiday Inn N. on VA. Ave. If I had wanted to screw them, I could have waited until 5pm to call them, or not at all.

Once I explained all of that to Snake and that all my airline pilot buddies and mentors in the Guard had told me to NEVER give up a class date, he smilied, stood up and shook my hand, then said, "I think you are going to have a real good career here at Delta Air Lines, now get on back to class..."

It was hard to walk because my knees were still shaking! And then I walked on eggshells for the first 5 years. I figured if he saw my name on his desk once more, I'd be gone.