I disagree. As the poster above said it is the fairest way. Some could say age based is discrimination, social sec # is social security discrimination. Random assignment is as fair as it gets. It's a computer generated process at the airline I was speaking of. The way it works is the next-in-line employee numbers are lined up to equal the amount of pilots in a class. Then the computer randomly assigns a pilot name to an employee number. That's how it works. There's no manipulation involved.