Originally Posted by
hindsight2020
And then there's the jackalope who drops a 3-year AGR on the company the day he gets off consolidation. Standard Blue Falcon Ricardo.... And we wonder why we can't have nice things.
Agree with Gunfighter on the prior posts. This isn't a crisis, nor something of a scale the company is incapable of handling privately. It's a PR opportunity for the company to shake the tree with idle threats and rationalize their decision to throttle back the non-retiree hiring while getting a pass on the effects said manning decision has on the QOL of those already on property.
My only dog in this fight is that it does, even anecdotally, hurt us non-retiree/non-full-separating mil types on the hiring front. It's illegal as hell to hold that against an applicant; then again I don't believe in the Easter bunny either. I've already been through the USERRA toilet paper dynamic with a prospective pedestrian employer 8 years ago, to know you'll never gain traction on proving an employer didn't hire you based on their perceived aversion to having Selected Reserve people in their manning roster.
Nancy was right: Just say NO to reservist-on-reservist crime.
Exactly.
Since we started hiring in 2014, we have hired just over 2350 pilots, 143 (approx 6%) of which are now out on long term mil leave... 6% doesn't sound like a lot, but the bean counters will tell you that's 143 folks that were interviewed, hired, went through initial training and IOE, a bit of line flying then disappeared, only to have to be replaced by someone else. Rinse and repeat, no wonder the new hire fleets are "short."
Most, if not all, will be back sooner rather than later, but almost all will require some refresher or full initial training again, further straining available training resources. If folks believe that this won't eventually affect hiring practices, I would submit that they are sadly mistaken. I'm sure the company senses a decreased return on investment WRT hiring current reservists. The data bears that out, and we all know how Delta feels about data.