bombinha said:
What about those who does have a lot of flight time experience but doesn't have the credit to buy the type rating do u think is fair to loose a job for a kid with no experience and a rich father who would pay for his type?
I think that was English, so I'll give it a shot. I apologize in advance if I missed your point in the translation.
You don't have to like it or think that it's fair. We live in America, a free-market (sorta), capitalist country. In such an economy, capital is traded to obtain the goods and services that you want to obtain for your own consumption. We measure this capital in money, and those who play the game the best keep enough of it on hand to invest in opportunities that could increase their capital earning potential. Everyone has a finite amount of capital, and it's up to you to distribute it as you see fit. If you use all of your capital on too expensive of an apartment, boats, motorcycles and other non-essentials and you don't have enough of it left over to invest in yourself when there is an opportunity that will allow you to increase your potential to earn more capital, then that's your loss. These are all your choices, and only yours.
Stop whining about rich fathers, or not having money or credit or any other excuse that shifts the blame to someone else. You can either whine and watch opportunities pass you by, or you can hold yourself above that and just go make things happen. The men and women who founded this country and built it to what it is didn't do it by b1tching and moaning about the fact that they didn't have everything that they needed all the time- they innovated, invested some sweat equity and made it happen. I'm sick of this class warfare sh1t, it reminds me of children throwing a temper tantrum because they weren't given some toy that they wanted when they have a whole room full of toys that they don't play with anyway. If you want something, you go make it happen, whining and crying like a child isn't getting you anywhere.
There are something like 4,300 pilots at Southwest. Some of them were smart enough to invest their time into a growing airline that nobody thought could stand up to Braniff and American. It was a risk, they won. That happens sometimes, they could have just as easily lost. Some other pilots there saw the writing on the wall 10 years ago, or maybe even 5, 2, or 1 and they realized that SWA was heading in a direction that they'd like to go. Some of them had type ratings from the military or other airlines and applied. Others went and bought their type ratings with no guarantee that they'd be hired. They took a risk, and they were rewarded. Is everyone rewarded? Nope, that's not how it works. That's why it's called a risk. The reward wouldn't be worth a thing if it did pay off for everyone.
You ask is it fair? Yes, it is fair. It's fair because those are the people that SWA wanted to hire, and who are you to dictate their hiring preferences to them? If one day they decide that they only want to hire people who wear brown shoes to the interview, then so be it. It's their business and they'll thrive or fail on their own decisions. That's a risk that they take, and so far they've been rewarded with an outstanding, productive and motivated workforce. You are free to your opinion, but you're not free to tell SWA who they should and should not hire, and if you ever have your own company, SWA will surely reciprocate by not telling you how to do your own hiring.
