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Old 01-30-2026 | 12:28 PM
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Default First Round of MD Displacements Is Out

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Old 01-30-2026 | 11:56 PM
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Old 01-31-2026 | 12:30 AM
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So this creates 8 new CA’s, which opens up 8 FO positions. So this bid creates 0 open vacancies for new hires. There are people interviewing next week. I assume you only interview if you expect to hire. Where will they put new hires if there are no excess FO spots?
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Old 01-31-2026 | 03:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Madella0124
So this creates 8 new CA’s, which opens up 8 FO positions. So this bid creates 0 open vacancies for new hires. There are people interviewing next week. I assume you only interview if you expect to hire. Where will they put new hires if there are no excess FO spots?
Probably still have extra slots left over from previous bids.
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Old 01-31-2026 | 04:58 AM
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I know they had more than the 2 slots they used in the last class. That said, taking this job at the moment does not seem like a wise decision at all.
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Old 01-31-2026 | 05:15 AM
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Originally Posted by flyguy23
I know they had more than the 2 slots they used in the last class. That said, taking this job at the moment does not seem like a wise decision at all.
Big picture, get hired when hiring is slow, slog out the low seniority and you are now on the front end of the wave (big or ripple). Retirements will come eventually.
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Old 01-31-2026 | 07:02 AM
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Thy interviewed a bunch of people in late 2022 and gave them a “congratulations you passed the interview process”. Then they just let them float in the pool until postal hiring happened over a year later. I think the hr hiring department has no clue what is happening
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As we head into what appears to be a year of complete stagnation, I wouldn’t be surprised if we lose more guys off the bottom than off the top.
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Old 01-31-2026 | 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by MD11Simnerd
Big picture, get hired when hiring is slow, slog out the low seniority and you are now on the front end of the wave (big or ripple). Retirements will come eventually.
I agree. It’s kinda like Warren Buffet’s advice on stock buying. If you want to be hired ahead of everyone you don’t go to the airline that just hired 10,000 of your best friends.

Life sucks here right now. However, once we have a contract attitudes are likely to swing wildly the other direction. Caveat Emptor
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Old 01-31-2026 | 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by airplanes
Thy interviewed a bunch of people in late 2022 and gave them a “congratulations you passed the interview process”. Then they just let them float in the pool until postal hiring happened over a year later. I think the hr hiring department has no clue what is happening
As someone who has interviewed in early October and hasn’t heard anything other than the mentioned "congratulations you passed the interview process", it starts to feel like what you described…
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