Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
I did the latter. I failed the oral at noon Friday, and went in and failed the sim at 6am Saturday. They elected not to give me a second try at either, which in itself is a failure, and the third one for me.
By the way, I want to make it clear that the company did in fact follow the rule to the letter. That's exactly what is allowed.
So, I got a call the very next day after my training was stopped from the Training manager, and he simply said, "you failed three things in training, and I have to terminate your employment". I asked if I could reapply. No, I was banned for life. He didn't offer to let me quit either. Interestingly, the guy who fired me was never exposed to this rule. He hired on in 1981-ish, and the up-r-out rule came to SkW in 1989.
That is exceedingly weak of the guy or the company policy. I don't know any details about what happened here in your instance but the only time our company has not allowed folks to resign was a couple of times when safety was deliberately compromised or there was malicious intent on the part of a pilot.
Just screwing up or being lazy or even a bit stupid allowed a chance at resignation.
Good luck in the future. There will be further chances. The job market sucks at the moment but when the feeding frenzy begins again you'll get another chance.