Originally Posted by
Davetastic
This just makes you look like an angry poster. I have no experience whatsoever with anyone who has personally felt that they were deceived or coerced, or given the bait and switch. Nor have I heard of anybody being given an Atlas interview and then been told to go to the triple. I'm not saying is isn't happening but for as many people as I fly with and as many people as I talk to (and I personally know people in the training center as I am sure you will say you do as well), but this kind of report just hasn't made it's way to me via other channels except the rumor mill. Are you getting this all from the ATAM because it sure sounds like it? (you know that the ATAM is just for "entertainment" purposes right?).
I fly just like you and talk to umpteen people as well so unless you have details to substantiate your claims, your post will fall on to deaf ears as a previous poster also suggested thereby rendering your message useless.
So, unless you are a SOUTHERN pilot, how would you know?.....oh, wait, because it happened to a buddy, right? If you are a Southern pilot, you took the job so it can't be that bad. And if it is that bad, I am sure you are trying to leave. Have I covered all the bases?
You could have easily sent the same message minus the rhetoric and probably been more effective. just sayin.
Just because you haven't heard personally doesn't mean it's not happening. I have a real life actual friend who I had reluctantly been assisting to get a job at Atlas (I'm now actively discouraging him). He applied to Atlas, and only Atlas, and was called with an offer to interview at Southern.
If a company accepts an application for one side that pays better and has better work rules and then offers an interview with the worse side you think that isn't at least a little bit shady? Especially when you throw in that the recruiter said the senority lists would be merged by the end of the year. When the CEO has openly said there will be no increase in compensation expenses for labor, you really think telling people the lists will be merged by year-end isn't deceptive?