Originally Posted by
duvie
How exactly do you think non-white, AKA minorities, are getting a leg up? It's an algorithm that pulls you out of the stack with no weight on anything else. The current UAL model is very sensitive to that.
People often don't discose the X-factor that may have got them hired. Ironically, (as evidenced by this thread) they want you to believe they deserved it. The race/gender card is lazy. Dig deeper and I'll bet you'll find an uncle in management or an internship under a now VP. Or, heaven forbid, a really well rounded resume ;-)
Naaw, If I see a low time person with a well rounded resume I really feel good about that. I feel down right giddy if someone really did make it happen and did it all the right way. Just need the experience in my opinion. Youth is a good thing and I think it is great to get hired young on a major's seniority list. However, I see some strange stuff in some of the younger pilots and I wonder what the hell is HR thinking? If this were a pure pilot driven process no way do some of these folks make it through the door, much less the interview process.
I don't really look at Race (non white) at all. I don't look at females either. There are some other strange categories that I sort of scratch my head on that I never even knew were a consideration or a reason to lower the standards.
That's my beef. I don't think the standards should be lowered at all. I just think folks should work hard and pay their dues and all that HR crap should be left off the application. I think HR should go and play in the HR romper room and let the pilots run pilot land.