It's not even the low flight time that ****es me off about this...it's the no interview thing. It's a lot easier to simply not hire someone for things like abrasive personality, poor hygiene, social misfits, megalomania, than it is to 'weed them out' after the fact. This no interview thing is going to come back to bite them in the butt when they're paying their lawyers tons of money to back up their 'weeding out' decisions.

I see this as nothing less than a prime example of Pinnacle managements notoriously flawed logic rearing its head and changing the Mesaba culture (in this case our hiring department) for the worse. I can't say the Pinnacle pilots didn't warn us about this.

I'm not saying the hiring department needs to be overly picky, but they need the ability to interview and weed out even just 5% of these guys.