World Airways
02-10-2011 | 12:37 PM
#21
New Hire
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[QUOTE=Zapata;942870]: Besides, getting to know someone to for an internal recommendation is not "prostituting" oneself. In case you haven't noticed the real world, many new-hires get hired this way.
Washing someone's car, mowing his lawn and serving him margaritas is getting to know someone? Stupid me I've been paying my gardener, seems he just wanted to be friends.
My comment was tongue-in-cheek, however, getting to know someone for the sole purpose of a job recommendation is called '@ss kissing.' There once was a day when qualifications mattered, but call me old fashioned.
Washing someone's car, mowing his lawn and serving him margaritas is getting to know someone? Stupid me I've been paying my gardener, seems he just wanted to be friends.
My comment was tongue-in-cheek, however, getting to know someone for the sole purpose of a job recommendation is called '@ss kissing.' There once was a day when qualifications mattered, but call me old fashioned.
02-10-2011 | 03:26 PM
#22
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From: 747 FO
Washing someone's car, mowing his lawn and serving him margaritas is getting to know someone? Stupid me I've been paying my gardener, seems he just wanted to be friends.
My comment was tongue-in-cheek, however, getting to know someone for the sole purpose of a job recommendation is called '@ss kissing.' There once was a day when qualifications mattered, but call me old fashioned.
Are you new to the profession?
02-10-2011 | 06:46 PM
#23
Line Holder
Joined: Jul 2009
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From: B-737
That's funny. Because, it was blaringly OBVIOUS that the car washing, lawn mowing and margarita making comments were tongue-in-cheek too. Yet you chose hypocrisy. I was at World in a past life and I will attest that qualifications definitely mattered. Otherwise, if one somehow made it through the interview, the unqualified would get washed out in training.
Are you new to the profession?
Are you new to the profession?
02-10-2011 | 10:02 PM
#24
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Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Left Seat
02-11-2011 | 05:19 AM
#25
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Joined: Feb 2006
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From: B-737NG preferably in first class with a glass of champagne and caviar
! I have to keep the coffee mug off the computer table
02-14-2011 | 11:36 PM
#26
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Man I got torched on that!!!! Actually, I would probably get to know the guy, meet his family, invite them over to the ranch for a BBQ. Of course, that would depend on how much credit I have on my Food Stamps account. 3 Holer, please do not lecture me on the in's & out's of this industry. Truth be known, I have more time over the OM that you have in your logbook. (OM means Outer Marker; a funny little noise starts beeping and a little light starts flashing) Now a little Boeing humor: the B727-100 is a three holer, and the -200 is a four holer. Know why??? Incindentally, you seem very angry about something. (TOS Deleted)
Last edited by acl65pilot; 02-15-2011 at 09:24 AM. Reason: Sentence Fragment Error-TOS Insulting other members
02-15-2011 | 10:41 AM
#27
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From: Left Seat
Man I got torched on that!!!! Actually, I would probably get to know the guy, meet his family, invite them over to the ranch for a BBQ. Of course, that would depend on how much credit I have on my Food Stamps account. 3 Holer, please do not lecture me on the in's & out's of this industry. Truth be known, I have more time over the OM that you have in your logbook. (OM means Outer Marker; a funny little noise starts beeping and a little light starts flashing) Now a little Boeing humor: the B727-100 is a three holer, and the -200 is a four holer. Know why??? Incindentally, you seem very angry about something. (TOS Deleted)
thinker, you tell us the origins of "4 holer".
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