Has to be intelligent? HAHA look at your posts! I never said the MEC had anything to do with hiring. I said XJ pilots werent called because they have a Flow through (oder of who goes and when). Guess what? Just like XJ, no CPZ was able to get hired outside of the flow either. I stated the facts and you argued them because you didnt like what i said. Tough shiat cause thats the truth. Trying to respond or reason with you is like talking to a 4 year old who just crapped his pants in front of all his friends. :erm:
Its pretty easy to see why a guy with your attitude hasnt made the move anywhere else.
You are correct, this is just my opinion, but, I don't see how it is not true. With all of the factional & corporate hiring during their run, most of the pilots at a "regional" are pilots who just did not want to go somewhere else. (Is your point that these guys could not get hired anywhere? If so, they probably could not have remained hired at their regional. They might have been given one line check too many if you know what I mean)
Still, they don't like it if they see Compass get on the Delta train and pull out of the station without them.
Heyas Super and Fins,
I agree with both of you. I came up from the scooters, and I saw just about every personality type there was.
A mass frenzy of hiring happened between late 95 and mid 2001. Just about anyone who wanted to could have made the cut somewhere. Let's look at some excuses:
1) "I can't afford the pay cut": Typically this was divided up between those guys who didn't WANT to take the pay cut (hey, they just NEEDED that new iROC Z-28), and those who had a bad financial situation. However, MOST of the later's financial problems were almost always self induced.
2) "No college": Tough nuts. You knew the rules when the game started. Places like ERAU have home study that is almost too easy to complete, and work just fine to check that box. In reality, many of these guys didn't want to be bothered, and just wanted to cruise for mall chicks in that iROC Z-28, probably in uniform.
3) "I didn't have the time they were looking for". Classic, but irrelevant. Once people make it to the regionals, time is accumulated, more or less, equally. What this person is say is "I wanted to leapfrog over the people who've been doing this longer".
4) "I had my stuff in, I just didn't get called". Then why, pray tell, did 1000's of other guys get called? Because THEY did the homework, kept their ear to the ground, and had the persistence to make sure they got their stuff in ASAP and KEPT it current. They showed interest BEFORE the mad rush started.
5) The DUI/DWI/arrest. NOTHING is going to help these people. They made their bed, and now they have to lie in it.
Every one of these excuses is caused by P^3 (piss poor planning), and now they're mad at the group who bothered to make the effort. They are shallow, mean little people, the same stripe who are pissed at the smart kids for blowing the bell curve.
So, does that mean that everyone falls into this group? No, but I'd say that majority does. The few go-getters that had legitimately bad luck typically make something happen for themselves anyway, and wouldn't be caught whining on the brain trust.
Nu