Originally Posted by
Grumble
They're flushing the app pool and starting again. I got the letter, all my crash pad roommates did too. It's a generic form letter. What did you think, by sending that they would change their mind? What you did was erase any chance of ever having a shot there, ever, since they turned around and reopened the window. If you got all butthurt and took the time to draft a response to a form letter, you've got some seriously thin skin, and it comes off as completely pathetic and immature. Right now the HR people are saying "wow, glad we didn't give that guy a shot." Quite possible other HR departments are looking up your listed quals and matching them up to apps in their stacks for a black flag too.
Maybe it comes off as immature and pathetic to you but to me the guy's my hero. If you get hired here and have the "privelage" of flying the line with the majority of Cptns who have zero prior 121 experience, you'll see how asinine it is that this guy with three airlines under his belt, 11,000+ hours (7,200+) in heavy transport category jets gets passed over for others who have zero experience flying an airliner under Part 121 and have a quarter of the hours that he does.
Assuming that you're a civilian guy (as you mentioned a crashpad), spend a little time on the line here and you'll soon understand why this place has the reputation it does for not keeping it on pavement as well as all the other incidents you see (and don't see that don't make it to the media. I.e. The new -800 that's probably totaled due to a really bad tail-strike in LAS).
Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to have to sit in the tiller-less seat now and witness the pax and FAs get thrown around on the ground because Cptn. Doesn't Understand How to Smoothly Operate and Aircraft with People on it is at the helm? THAT'S frustrating and yet this guy with oodles of experience gets turned down.
As a disclaimer if he had a $chitty attitude or wasn't typed I can certainly understand the rejection as they're probably interviewing to fill the three classes during June & July, but if that's the case why interview him?!