Originally Posted by sqwkvfr

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.