Originally Posted by watch

What’s wrong with being home on short call reserve, as long as you check in on time or are promptly available?

Originally Posted by jaxsurf

Ah, gotcha.

Sounds like it might be a good idea if there were some sort of process where we could get to know people before they got brought on board, to hopefully prevent people with those attitudes or traits from getting here in the first place.

Maybe we could have some of our pilots speak to the candidates beforehand. Oh yeah, maybe even have HR there as well, because they look for/ask about different sorts of things than pilots do. Maybe just get everyone together in a room and talk to the candidate, to see if they’re a good fit for the company culture.

That way we might be able to sort of “filter” or “screen” the type of people who might engage in egregious behavior like showing up looking like garbage, or being insubordinate. Because as we all know, it’s very expensive for a company to bring someone on board only to have to fire them later. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, etc.

I dunno, just a thought.

Originally Posted by watch

What’s wrong with being home on short call reserve, as long as you check in on time or are promptly available?

Originally Posted by JacksonThunder

Does Delta offer pilot mentors to new hires? At 9E, we have a mentor program that seems to work fairly well.

Originally Posted by TED74

Yes. I believe it’s actually a 121 requirement?

Originally Posted by TED74

Yes. I believe it’s actually a 121 requirement?

Originally Posted by Crown

wasn't there one who answered a phone call on the takeoff roll with a fed on the jump as well?

And the Compass guy who flipped the bird to his instructor in the MD sim

Originally Posted by JohnnyBekkestad

I think he is referring to someone sitting home 1000nm away…

Originally Posted by cornbeef007

Yes some bad apples will move with the flow but honestly are they the only winners Delta has ever hired?

- CVG guy runs his wife through a wood chipper.

- ATL guy locks his wife up in a closet for 2 days.

-ATL guy runs from the cops in a DC3.


These weren’t flows or NWA guys, these were good ol Delta boys. Not really sure these are on par with flipping someone the bird or answering the phone but they all made the news.

Originally Posted by cornbeef007

Yes some bad apples will move with the flow but honestly are they the only winners Delta has ever hired?

- CVG guy runs his wife through a wood chipper.

- ATL guy locks his wife up in a closet for 2 days.

-ATL guy runs from the cops in a DC3.


These weren’t flows or NWA guys, these were good ol Delta boys. Not really sure these are on par with flipping someone the bird or answering the phone but they all made the news.