Originally Posted by
TonyC
I don't know if it was ripping on him as much as teasing him about not being able to figure out an oven with a timer and a temperature selector. For a guy hand-picked to be in an MD-11 class, that seems like a silly complaint, and silly complaints tend to obscure legitimate ones.
But, you're right. If more people quit, maybe The Company will get a message. .
I think his oven comment was him tying to insert a little humor into a glum post and it just didnt come out right in print-form
RF was recently in CGN for a pilot meeting and made the comment ‘we recognize there is a problem with the hiring process. Most of the new guys leaving didn’t have the endorsement. It helps to know something about the company before coming here’
While I’ll not disagree with him, I believe he’s missing an important aspect. Your sponsor can send you all the bid packs you want but no amount of looking at them is going to give you an indication of how you’ll feel after 6 months of flying them. Then maybe you decide “lemme update that UAL DAL etc app with FDX as my current employer and see what happens, just to see.” Maybe the phone rings.
I am genuinely curious. If we go back to the pre 9/11 rate at which guys bailed for the Big 3 (which are still the same Big 3!), will the company actually recognize that this time, it’s not just about money?
Put a new guy in the bottom of the Airbus bid pack, and 6-9 months after flying that stuff, it doesn’t matter if he’d lose money wise by punching.
If he’s got options, which he probably does since we hired him in the first place, and he’s got “spare age”....Bailing suddening isn’t a monumental decision anymore.