Originally Posted by
MD11Fr8Dog
I was also ex-Navy and an internal hire as well - 18 months (8/94-2/96) throwing boxes and driving a tug. Leaving active duty in late '93 was NOT great for getting hired at a major.
In my new hire class of 30, we had 6-7 internal hires, plus a couple guys that did internships at FedEx way back in the day (
may not have necessarily got them the interview, but it sure gave them really low emp #s 
). A guy hired a couple classes ahead of me had 17yrs at FedEx when he came to the line, working mostly in GOC.
No preferential treatment, but get to keep that employee number! Although I dunno how low it will look with how they jumped with the millionth employee number.
I always had to do a double take when some F/Os had lower numbers than Captains when closing out flightplans though