![Who's been hired? [New Employer Can ID You!]](/iconimages/major/who-s-been-hired-new-employer-can-id-you_ltr.gif)
Who's been hired? [New Employer Can ID You!]
11-21-2016, 01:17 PM
#2251
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2016
Position: A350 CA
Posts: 295
A degree or lack of has absolutely nothing to do with flying skills, period. Those people who didn't make it through probation had other issues other than the lack of a degree. It would be silly to think the lack of a degree was their cause of termination. Totally irrelevant
11-21-2016, 03:48 PM
#2252
New Hire
Joined APC: Mar 2016
Posts: 3
Thoughts?
Originally Posted by Ispeakjive
It depends. Are you a govvie or contractor? LEO, DoD, etc? What type of equipment/missions do you fly? Any trips though the sandbox? I hate to give this advice, but maybe you should do a lap through one of the job fairs and see what the hiring bubbas have to say about your competitiveness. I think Jet Blue will treat you like a vet. They do with school teachers, police, paramedics etc.
Going to a regional even with the "better" pay is still a $70k pay cut. I have no debt and money in the bank but that is still VERY steep.
At least going to a Major it is a 50k cut but almost back to normal at year two. I can take the risk of going to a Regional and hoping/praying a Major calls or task the risk of staying where I am and never get a call.
Very confusing.
11-21-2016, 04:21 PM
#2253
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: Window seat
Posts: 5,214
Originally Posted by Wink
What was the pilot terminated for?
And the number has to be more than 3, i personally know 2 pilots at UAL without degrees and i highly doubt i coincidentally know the only 2.
Additionally, those 2 had outstanding qualifications and only lacked a degree.
And the number has to be more than 3, i personally know 2 pilots at UAL without degrees and i highly doubt i coincidentally know the only 2.
Additionally, those 2 had outstanding qualifications and only lacked a degree.
Were they 2014-2015 new hires? I think that was where the UA data came from.
11-21-2016, 10:15 PM
#2254
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2015
Posts: 102
Originally Posted by pattersons04
Government, LEO, DHC-8. Sandbox trip while in military years ago. I am a veteran.
Going to a regional even with the "better" pay is still a $70k pay cut. I have no debt and money in the bank but that is still VERY steep.
At least going to a Major it is a 50k cut but almost back to normal at year two. I can take the risk of going to a Regional and hoping/praying a Major calls or task the risk of staying where I am and never get a call.
Very confusing.
Going to a regional even with the "better" pay is still a $70k pay cut. I have no debt and money in the bank but that is still VERY steep.
At least going to a Major it is a 50k cut but almost back to normal at year two. I can take the risk of going to a Regional and hoping/praying a Major calls or task the risk of staying where I am and never get a call.
Very confusing.
11-22-2016, 12:02 AM
#2255
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2013
Posts: 4,672
Originally Posted by Sliceback
Still hired. But UA's recent experience is now - only 2/3's of non degreed new hires make it through probation. That bodes poorly for UA's desire to high more non degreed pilots.
The point was, there are VERY FEW pilot without a degree at UAL.
And after the spring of this year, 1 fewer....
11-22-2016, 05:08 AM
#2256
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2014
Posts: 1,681
I think the degree thing is relevant.
Shows lack of commitment and follow through.
Let's not kid ourselves. If you know a degree is required to get the job, and if you are too slack to even go and finish one online, you are just plain lazy.
(Why anyone puts decades of effort into getting to this level, but then won't even take a few hours a week to bang out a simple online degree is just beyond me.)
Shows lack of commitment and follow through.
Let's not kid ourselves. If you know a degree is required to get the job, and if you are too slack to even go and finish one online, you are just plain lazy.
(Why anyone puts decades of effort into getting to this level, but then won't even take a few hours a week to bang out a simple online degree is just beyond me.)
11-22-2016, 03:43 PM
#2258
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jul 2009
Posts: 45
Originally Posted by NYC Pilot
A degree or lack of has absolutely nothing to do with flying skills, period. Those people who didn't make it through probation had other issues other than the lack of a degree. It would be silly to think the lack of a degree was their cause of termination. Totally irrelevant
I agree that there must have been other issues if they were already found qualified and hired. But discrediting the value of posessing a degree while performing a skilled job is a self serving waste of time.
11-22-2016, 04:01 PM
#2259
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,383
Someday this whole college degree thing being the barometer for someone to show "cognition" and "the ability to see a challenge to its end" (i'm sick of that BS one BTW...although it has a tiny bit of merit) will slowly go away in the wake of what is happening on college campuses lately what with all of the protesting/"offending" going on from halloween costumes to what are we allowed or not allowed to call transgenders.
At some point...the airplane just needs to be flown..safely.
At some point...the airplane just needs to be flown..safely.
11-22-2016, 04:33 PM
#2260
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2015
Position: A320 - the one that turns the fuel pumps on
Posts: 106
Originally Posted by Learflyer
Someday this whole college degree thing being the barometer for someone to show "cognition" and "the ability to see a challenge to its end" (i'm sick of that BS one BTW...although it has a tiny bit of merit) will slowly go away in the wake of what is happening on college campuses lately what with all of the protesting/"offending" going on from halloween costumes to what are we allowed or not allowed to call transgenders.
At some point...the airplane just needs to be flown..safely.
At some point...the airplane just needs to be flown..safely.
English major? Kind of ironic that your rant about college being basically useless was almost unintelligible due to it being the world's longest run on sentence.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
