Oh man, you've got me. I've got no friends, and don't influence people. Being the poor miserable soul that I am, I can only troll around on anonymous bbs.Falconjet said:
I don't work for FedEx, and don't have any aspirations to do so. I'm one of only a few who doesn't have an ap in, but maybe I should just so we can meet. Until then, this is an anonymous bbs, don't get your panties in a wad.
Are you as shallow in real life as your retort would seem to make you out? Do I need to put the word sarcasm in all CAPS for you next time?
Just to be clear, again, my rhetoric is aimed at a management team that succeeded (for a long time) beyond most peoples wildest dreams, with pilots who were hired during a length of time when SWA was not at the top of (most) anyones list. Now, that their is an overabundence of truly qualified airline pilots, SWA has changed their hiring criteria into one more suited for the space program.
I liken their current hiring process to a fisherman who fed his village well using a two inch net. He then heard that there were some six inch fish in the ocean so he dumped his old net, took out the six inch net and cast it out. Now he catches enough fish, but why change.
I'm sure that SWA will claim to have gone after the best available pilot during their entire existance, and I'm sure that they have; but the best reports available today indicate that SWA is now rejecting pilots who they previously would have hired. My entire crusade is against the HQ thought process that is essentially looking down on the thousands of pilots they hired pre-9/11, many of whom are my friends. Not that someone as miserable as myself has any of course.
In short, I prefer to dance with the one who brung me. SWA should do the same. That my friend is not a comment on the employees, it's a comment on the bureacratic process that hires them. Next time why not try and reflect that not all members of these forums are itching for a fight with fellow pilots?
Now, that I've got that off my chest. My apologies to any past or future SWA newhire. I'm trying to defend you in my own flawed way.
