ATA expanding at MDW--Again

[SWA/FO]

Saves me from having to see for myself just how "cool you are" in the crew room spewing the latest drivel from your FOM!

You would not want to read our FOM. I'm way cool.

 

[atafan]

You would not want to read our FOM. I'm way cool.

http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_loser.php

Find out for sure.:laugh:

 

[mdf]

Passed the interview TWICE dipsh*t. The fact I was ATA was the kiss of death at the DB. Don't yank my chain sonny, I've been around. I was losing my job because of SWA and looking to stay employed. I have a lot of friends on the inside including the PD, I know the whole drill.

Yeah, what were they thinking!

 

[FlyinGuy]

757, If you interviewed like the last few posts, it is pretty easy to see why they did not hire you.

 

[Whataburger]

What pisses me off is the way SWA handled the furloughs of over 500 ATA pilots. Over the course of the rape of ATA, SWA hired what, say 1200 or more? How many ATA pilots were picked up 20, maybe 25. SWA doesn't want experience.

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SWA has said many, many times - Experience is what got you the interview, a personality that will gel with the Employee group will get you hired.

 

[mhermann596]

I can fly circles around you. Are we talking about Chicago Express? You were never at ATA...how would you know?



Source? You have to pass the interview, repeat: one has to PASS the interview. We just don't hand out jobs to anyone.

imp: the SWA/FO

Nor were we looking for a handout from SWA, just some respect (of which we never got.) Also I've flown with Mega and she is a great stick.

 

[757jetflier]

757, If you interviewed like the last few posts, it is pretty easy to see why they did not hire you.

Yeah, I went in there like I owned the freaking place and I was owed a left seat job from the start. Raising hell and throwing chairs around. When I started running around naked swinging a bullwhip was when they said thanks but no thanks, you ATA guys party way too hard for us.

 

[SWA/FO]

Nor were we looking for a handout from SWA, just some respect (of which we never got.) Also I've flown with Mega and she is a great stick.

Have you ever flown with me? Where did you fly with Mega? Chicago Express? That is not ATA. Thats like saying Comair is Delta.

Give me an example of how Southwest disrespected you? Did they call you names? Or just not hire you? Did they make fun of your background, race , religion? What? I'm dying to know.

If thats the case then US Airways, TWA & Fed Ex disrespected me.....funny cus, I thought they just didn't hire me.

 

[fr8doggie]

If thats the case then..... & Fed Ex disrespected me.....

Thank God for small miracles.

 

[mhermann596]

Have you ever flown with me? Where did you fly with Mega? Chicago Express? That is not ATA. Thats like saying Comair is Delta.

Give me an example of how Southwest disrespected you? Did they call you names? Or just not hire you? Did they make fun of your background, race , religion? What? I'm dying to know.

You really want to know huh? Well, SWA broke a promise that that they made to me. I was an ATA furloughee, who at the time of furlough did not have the 1000 PIC. When I got furloughed, I called SWA to let them know my situation. I was told, by SWA, that they would hold my pref interview slot for me until I got the 1000 PIC. At that point I got hired on as a street captain for Pinnacle so that I can work on my PIC time. It was the worst 8 months of my life, but I sucked it up so that I could get the interview. Well when I crossed that magical 1000 PIC mark I made an immediate call to SWA to inform them that I was ready. I was then informed that my pref interview was revoked and please give us a call back when you have 1300 hours PIC and a type. I could just feel the LUV.

 

[atafan]

mhermann596,

Don't bother wasting your breath with SWA/"forever"FO, he's got his pull up the ladder.

 

[canyonblue]

Raising hell and throwing chairs around.

Maybe you could coach basketball at Texas Tech.

 

[757jetflier]

Maybe you could coach basketball at Texas Tech.

Oooooh. Yeah, or maybe be a lion tamer in the circus!

Just venting a legit beef and SWA/FO chimes in.
He's so fun to f*** with. Low self esteem or maybe he was abused as a child. Me, I'm just naturally pissed-off. I've never had a point to prove, or a need to back it up.

 

[SWA/FO]

You know, I just heard the other day from a guy in the "know" that SWA was thinking of lowering the mins again. I guess, the concern is they are running out of qualified applicants. It might go down to 1000 PIC again....soon.

 

[757jetflier]

You know, I just heard the other day from a guy in the "know" that SWA was thinking of lowering the mins again. I guess, the concern is they are running out of qualified applicants. It might go down to 1000 PIC again....soon.

So what? Does this mean the rest of your nursery school class can now apply?





Lighten up buddy! Just bustin' your *alls. Not like you don't hand it out in spades!

 

[mnboyev]

ouch... that wasnt nice..

 

[capt. megadeth]

Also I've flown with Mega and she is a great stick.

Thanks!

 

[capt. megadeth]

Have you ever flown with me? Where did you fly with Mega? Chicago Express? That is not ATA. Thats like saying Comair is Delta.

Well, since you have NOT A CLUE.....I guess I have to S-P-E-L-L it out for you.

I know A LOT of people from ATA and I have also flown with a lot of them. It doesn't matter where I flew with them, but I am sure they could fly circles around you! At least that's what I heard from the captains you fly with. I know people at SWA too and they are all not brainwashed like you and some of the clan.

 

[SWA/FO]

Well, since you have NOT A CLUE.....I guess I have to S-P-E-L-L it out for you.

I know A LOT of people from ATA and I have also flown with a lot of them. It doesn't matter where I flew with them, but I am sure they could fly circles around you! At least that's what I heard from the captains you fly with. I know people at SWA too and they are all not brainwashed like you and some of the clan.

this makes me laugh, :laugh:. Its getting dark, time to fly Mega.

 

[Scope out RJ's]

this makes me laugh, :laugh:. Its getting dark

Which means its way past your bed time. Now, get off daddy's computer and go to sleep little man!

 

[GuppyWN]

757flier,

Back up a second. You said you got hired twice? We raised the mins a year ago. You interviewed twice in a year? And SWA told you you had to have a type to apply? Sounds like you got not only one but two interviews from someone that said they'd give you one.

What's the scoop? I'm trying to piece your story together.

Gup

 

[capt. megadeth]

this makes me laugh, :laugh:. Its getting dark, time to fly Mega.

Yeah, an 1800 departure with one leg to the Ville sure is rough. :laugh:

 

[canyonblue]

What pisses me off is the way SWA handled the furloughs of over 500 ATA pilots.

SWA didn't furlough them, that was a result of the pathetic management at ATA. It never ceases to amaze me when people fail to blame their own management for the decisions that have put them in the predicament they are in now. And we're supposed to be the Kool-Aid drinkers?

I imagine the Colts feel bad that the Bears didn't reap the same glory in Miami, how terrible those Colt's are.

 

[SWA/FO]

If you gots it so good Mega how come you hang out on ATA/SWA threads? You miss the past?

You wont find the SWA/FO hangin out on the freight dog page, do you? Also, you don't find the SWA/FO hangin on the US Airways, TWA or Fed Ex pages do you? Those airlines disrespected the SWA/FO....(for the average person that means they didn't hire him) but you don't find him hangin out on any of their threads do you. Its simple, he is over the disrespect (rejection for most people) they gave him. You are not.

You didn't make the grade at Southwest (that means they chose not to hire you). Which means you must interview really bad :laugh: . Because you're a woman, your name was pulled from one of the shortest, smallest, not tall stacks of application on file in the People Department. Competing with others from the short stack...... advantage for some, but didn't work out for you .

The SWA/FO's name did not come from the short stack. He was in one of the largest stacks they have. Plus, he had to overcome the fact that - he is not Mil trained. :0 this would be a death sentence for some Civ trained pilots, but luck was on the SWA/FO's side that day and Southwest chose not to disrespect him (they hired the SWA/FO). End of job search for him.

So the next best thing you can do is to appear on SWA threads and hang with the cool SWA pilots (more cool pilots here, other then the SWA/FO). Lets remember - the SWA/FO has flown freight in the past, but you have never flown more then 20 passengers in your life. Plus you have never flown a beautiful Boeing 737-700.

Oh, let me guess, you have no interest in doing that? Oh, you just like talking about it then on flightinfo.com? You also enjoy telling the SWA/FO and others how bad his Company is or how his job sux, although you have never been here/done that.

the SWA/FO has spoken imp:

 

[757jetflier]

757flier,

Back up a second. You said you got hired twice? We raised the mins a year ago. You interviewed twice in a year? And SWA told you you had to have a type to apply? Sounds like you got not only one but two interviews from someone that said they'd give you one.

What's the scoop? I'm trying to piece your story together.

Gup

2000, and 2005. Refs and BG checked both times. Not typed in 2000, only guys picked up from interview had types, my loss. Second time, all bases covered, typed, interviewed, refs checked, insiders called. You tell me? Twelve interviews that day, three ATA besides myself. All of us got shined on. I like the conspiracy theory best. BTW all of us typed, Mil background, lots of heavy experience. But, we were all ATA. SWA did pick up a couple of regional guys that day, one with no jet, but he had a green card though! Go figure!

 

[Whataburger]

2000, and 2005. Refs and BG checked both times. Not typed in 2000, only guys picked up from interview had types, my loss. Second time, all bases covered, typed, interviewed, refs checked, insiders called. You tell me? Twelve interviews that day, three ATA besides myself. All of us got shined on. I like the conspiracy theory best. BTW all of us typed, Mil background, lots of heavy experience. But, we were all ATA. SWA did pick up a couple of regional guys that day, one with no jet, but he had a green card though! Go figure!

Got your app up to date? Maby third time's a charm. Hiring a bunch in the next few years.

 

[SWA/FO]

BTW all of us typed, Mil background, lots of heavy experience. But, we were all ATA.

A good friend of mine..ATA guy for 13 + years. Is a new hire with us.

 

[vixin]

A buddy of mine furloughed ATA has been on the property for 7 months now. Maybe your attitude shined through both times. I know plenty of good guys that havent received the call. When I talk to them we can usually pick out an area that may have cost them the job. But with your greater then everyone attitude, it isnt hard to figure out. Go to the interview thinking I am an ATA god, military, typed, can fly circles around any SWA pilot (stupid term but some have used it on this thread) so am hired attitude and you reap your resaults. The regional guys, freight , corp and military pilots that go to the interview thinking I am not better then anyone else, have a better chance. You said it in a previous post you are a pi55ed person. That my friend is very difficult to hide.

 

[bestpilot]

You wont find the SWA/FO hangin out on the freight dog page, do you? Also, you don't find the SWA/FO hangin on the US Airways, TWA or Fed Ex pages do you? Those airlines disrespected the SWA/FO....(for the average person that means they didn't hire him) but you don't find him hangin out on any of their threads do you. Its simple, he is over the disrespect (rejection for most people) they gave him. You are not.

The SWA/FO's name did not come from the short stack. He was in one of the largest stacks they have. Plus, he had to overcome the fact that - he is not Mil trained. :0 this would be a death sentence for some Civ trained pilots, but luck was on the SWA/FO's side that day and Southwest chose not to disrespect him (they hired the SWA/FO). End of job search for him.

Lets remember - the SWA/FO has flown freight in the past, but you have never flown more then 20 passengers in your life.

the SWA/FO has spoken imp:

Duuuude, wahy yoo bee speeking in da turd person all da time? Its freeekig eerietayting!

 

[SWA/FO]

I like you bestpilot. I like the way you talk.