Originally Posted by
p1ayn
The reality of the situation is that Lynx possibly mislead the applicant. If you wish to retain your employee's, how bout this concept, honesty, integrity, professionalism, a good working contract and respectful salary. Providing a vision that all employee's can respect and be motivated for. A contract does not provide that rather demonstrates a lack of confidence on their abililty to maintain a working and profitable structure within their airline.
A good decision on that young man for confronting the situation and more so for having the courage to do so.
The fact he came here to write or as you mention "whine" is his perogative and right to do so. It is no different than other posts complaining of their companies or asking if they look "cool" in their RayBans, or worse yet, if its ok to date a flight attendant. He was merely venting as well as providing and experience to alert others.
There are many airlines hiring, some more selective than others but I hope all have the respect of our skill as well as our integrity. Good luck to you and everyone else.
I understand that the nature of training contracts in and of itself will make my position unpopular, but what you've failed to understand here is that this company has a culture that it is trying to preserve. They want happy people who are fun to work with.
I want to work at a company that looks out for it's employees in that manner. I want to work at a place with people who are fun to work with and professional.....not a place full of flying "gods" and arrogant jerks who think that being pretentious is considered "professional."
Grown-up, responsible and confident pilots deal with setbacks like a "quiet professional." I seem to remember that tern being coined on this very web site.
In an industry packed with know-it-all, whining, full-of-themself j@ckasses, I'd like to work for a company that cares enough about it's employees and it's company culture to weed these types out before they hit ground school.
What is described in the original post is one way that one company did just that.
I mean, seriously, if you had an applicant calling and confronting you about an oversight, what would you think? This is normally the stage of the game where you send the interviewer a "thank you" letter even if he told you that you were the worst applicant that they had seen.
Being confrontational before you've even started training is just not a smart thing to do.
Regarding it being his perogative: Of course it's his right.....where did I say that it wasn't? I simply think that it's evidence of the very sort of undesirable personality trait that Lynx HR apparently detected and didn't like.