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08-20-2006, 05:07 AM

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capt_zman

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Pretty much zero chance.

08-20-2006, 06:00 AM

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If I wanted to fly for FedEx in the future, what would be my chances of getting the job if I had no internal contacts/someone to walk in my resume?

I'll sure through all your training, working at a regional, etc., you'd know at least somebody there eventually. Maybe another student, your instructor, a captain you've flown with, etc...

08-20-2006, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by capt_zman

Pretty much zero chance.

Pretty harsh

. . . but likely the closest to the truth of what anyone else might have to say.

There is SUCH a large pool of potential applicants out there . .the cargo job has 'brightened' in recent years . . and there are so many line pilots with 'friends' who are trying to get noticed . .NOT having an internal reference is a real negative. I would bet they can fill all their interviews with 'referenced' folks.

The ones with a real 'leg up' are the guys who can drop into MEM for a 'refuel/refile', parking next door on the ANG ramp and come over in flight suit, to meet their 'buddy' at the AOC and 'just happen' to run into an ACP

08-20-2006, 09:02 AM

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The company 'logged' the time; I quit keeping a log book the day I entered newhire Falcon school in 1/76 . .and you obviously don't understand scarcasm. .I guess the 'truama' you have suffered in your life has hardened you to humor.

I got your humour, but he's a newbie, asking a serious question, and deserves a serious answer. Also, one company I worked for went into Chapter 11, locked the doors, and we had no access to training or flight records for months. Doesn't help on a job interview to say "there are records, but I can't get to them." Now I regularly get a copy of my records off the Fedex website, so I have some record in my possession. Even though I hope I'm on my last flying job, I'v been burned too many times to not cover my butt.

08-20-2006, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by captain_drew

I am sorry you had a bad experience on it. I 'plumbed' on the Jurasic Jet for 5 years ('78-'83) . .4 more than seniority requrired, as I could have gone to a window seat after 1 . . BUT . . I was #1 for those 4 years. It wasn't the most fun job I ever had, but it served the purpose. For a pilot, 'plumbing' is actually 'work', as your heart is not in it, but you know you are a very important part of the equation.

It was the airplane that 'made' FedEx, so there is a certain fondness for it in that regard. BUT it was simply a royal HOOT to fly. I have never added up my hours in it but after 7 months in the right seat, I flew left seat from 1985 to 2002; you can do the rough math.

Now if you are turning your nose up against pulleys and cables that are actually 'attached' to the control surfaces you manipulate with the yoke in favor of the 'video game' airplanes they have been foisting on pilots in recent years. . you HAVE to be KIDDING me!! That is NOT really flying . . you are just along for the ride.

dude...go away...you must have no life being retired and playing on your computer all day....and the 72 sucks!!! was only on it 1 year and i threw up every day while plumbing on it...fudge any out and in times on that san trip lately?...

08-20-2006, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by CaptainMark

dude...go away...you must have no life being retired and playing on your computer all day....

Geez, man, take it easy.

08-20-2006, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by capt_zman

Pretty much zero chance.

Not true! I had zero recommendations and no one walked my resume through, of course I had to throw boxes for over a year!

08-20-2006, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MD11Fr8Dog

Not true! I had zero recommendations and no one walked my resume through, of course I had to throw boxes for over a year!

The times have changed since you were hired. I agree that without references there is little or no chance. You can't even get an interview without one, unless you throw boxes first.

Anything is possible though. He11, when Drew was hired, they had not invented airplanes yet had they?

08-20-2006, 02:46 PM

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The times have changed since you were hired. I agree that without references there is little or no chance. You can't even get an interview without one, unless you throw boxes first.

You have NO chance of getting an interview without references?

08-20-2006, 03:02 PM

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You have NO chance of getting an interview without references?

Not totally true. You can take job elsewhere in the company, and when you have he requisite time, 1 yr in my case, you can get an interview. When I got off active duty in '93, most of the airlines had people on the street, and I didn't know (that I knew) anyone at FedEx. I took a job in the summer of '94 as a handler/equipment operator and spent the next 18 months loading planes, driving a tug, etc. (my clock actually started ticking in Nov '94 as a "permanent" empl. and when I was eligible a yr later they were not interviewing until Jan '96). There were alt least 4 "internal" hires in my new hire class. No FedEx pilot recommendations, no one to walk my resume through.