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[tomgoodman]

Shrink wrapped

...define "horror" plz

The only one I heard involved the infamous "rocking chair" in his office. Supposedly, it made a big difference if the applicant sat still or rocked during the interview, and nobody knew which was preferred. BUT--a Captain met the Doc at a party once and asked him straight out. He replied: "I don't know how all that got started. I only have that chair because my wife thought it would look nice in the office."
My interview was in 1979, and was just a pleasant conversation--mostly about dairy farming, of all things. I think the only purpose was to screen out blatant weirdos or buffoons. (I must have fooled him.)

 

[spanky2]

Horror = stories about good pilots making it that far in he interview until chatting with this guy and then he canned them. Maybe they were closet axe murderers or members of the RJDC. As Tom said, rocking vs non-rocking, chair vs sofa, legs crossed vs not crossed, etc. Could be mostly urban myths. Bottom line as always = be yourself, don't read into the test or the interview. Hey, if General Lee can make it. :laugh:

 

[General Lee]

Exactly. The shrink asked me about ATL traffic. Thank gawd he didn't ask me about Comair pilots or SkyWest and their low balling the regional industry. And think if he asked me how I felt about transcon turns! It would have been over after an hour long diatribe from me, ending with "what do you want to do next? Marry your sister??"

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[Pat Fabin]

I was specifically asked about the LGA crew lounge.

 

[retired guy]

Back when I went to see the shrink, he was (so I was told) a "hawk" on the war (Viet Nam, we came in 2nd, BTW), so I went in uniform. Took the MMP and another 60 question mechanical ability test. Met with the doc, don`t remember any rocking chair.He thanked me for my military service and then casually asked if I had read this morning`s paper. I said that I had not. He said that the Atlanta Constitution was reporting that the Marines dropped a bomb on Hanoi that leveled 9 square miles, and what did I think about that?I told him that I didn`t think that the Defense Department would give the Marines a bomb that would do that much damage. He just nodded his head. I got the job, BTW,he did kill himself, probably because he had to talk to pilots all day, every day.....