Southwest Interview DONT'S

[southernpilot]

SWA Interview

Do not let one single negative word slip from your lips during the process. BTW, the process starts from the time you kiss your spouse goodbye as you leave for the interview. It doesn't end until you kiss him/her hello when you get home. Every SWA person within earshot is focusing on YOU.

I suggest avoiding the bar at the hotel where you stay the night before. If you overhear a negative conversation at ANY time, walk away. Even if you are only an innocent bystander, some SWA PD spy might see you standing there and assume you to be negative. This especially goes for the bar.

In the interview, carefully choose your stories so that you never say or imply anything demeaning to any other human being, alive or dead.

Be politically correct at all times.

Don't lie about anything, but remember that YOU get to choose the story you want to tell. Just make sure that you choose a story that shows you to be great person who cares for others.

If you think that you can spin the "did you prep for this interview" question to your advantage, call AlbieF15. He's a great guy, who offers a great service. I just wish that I could tell you how to lie about using him when they ask.

Still after all these years

You Jerk!

You sound like you are in SWA HR Dept.
Yet everything you say is exactly true. Wish I had known that three years ago.

 

[Captain Overs]

Don't tell them you've always had a boner for their F/A's ever since you started jumpseating. And definately don't tell them about the time you layed over in the same hotel and partied all night with the SW crew that had an early morning show when you had an extra 12 hours after they bailed!

Things to do (So I've heard from hired friends

Have your wife/G-friend make heart shaped cookies in SW colors and hand them out to everyone you meet along with your business card. (By the time he sat down for the interview there were close to ten phone calls saying what a great guy he was!)

Good luck!!

Baja.

Are you trying to get a job or try out for cheerleading?

 

[Going2Baja]

What's your point Capt? I don't need a job and never applied to SWA. All I said was leave the SWA party stories behind and cook cookies if you're into that. If you're trying to be funny - it didn't work. So as your profile says - Get back to being the 'bottom.' Oh yeah - good luck w/ that.

Baja.

 

[Hagar17]

Or.........Captain Ellen she must be gellin.........is that her Beaver that's smellin?

Dude, LMAO, I just about experienced a catastrophic reverse ingestion of Honey Comb and milk through my nose......................:laugh:

 

[learflyer]

What's your point Capt? I don't need a job and never applied to SWA. All I said was leave the SWA party stories behind and cook cookies if you're into that. If you're trying to be funny - it didn't work. So as your profile says - Get back to being the 'bottom.' Oh yeah - good luck w/ that.

Baja.

Well, if your supposed to "be yourself", Bringing cookies to a job interview is not being yourself. Even for Martha Stewart. If your supposed to be positive all day, and not talk a little negativity, your not being your self, he11, your not being human.

 

[Papa Woody]

Don't unirinate on the floor. Don't pick your nose. Don't burp. Don't fart. Don't ask stupid questions. Don't wear Dockers. Don't eat. Don't sleep. Don't scratch your crotch.

I guess a bow-tie is out of the question?

 

[atafan]

Picking your nose is OK, just don't eat it or flick it.

 

[Fox-Tree]

Here's something not to do:
One of the interview team is a chick.
Don't start out with: "Can I smell your pu$$y?" NO!!!!
"Oh, well then it must be your feet."

That's right out.

 

[learflyer]

and if she doesn't take care of her feet, it means she doesn't take care of u know what on the way down!!!!

 

[pilots-wife]

WOW...WHAT HAPPENED? I thought this was a professional forum with professional adults.

Thank you to those that have offered serious advice.

 

[AlbieF15]

PW...

Your first mistake was asking for info for your husband. Let him do the work. He's going to take a beating on the boards for having his "momma" look after him.

Second--this is message board. There are places where you can get a more serious, professional response--but FI is the wild wild west of message boards. You have to learn to filter through the chaff.

Third--I think you've learned that men all pigs and everything from your neckline to your sandals sends us a signal. Consider yourself warned...

 

[pilots-wife]

Just thought I would bring attention to the posting on page one....

FYI we are doing this together. She is the one that signed up for the forum...I have the questions.

Thank you all for your help!

 

[capt. megadeth]

Pilot's wife (and pilot) .....

Be yourself......that is.....the "yourself" SWA wants you to be.

Good luck!

 

[Fallingbrick]

WOW...WHAT HAPPENED? I thought this was a professional forum with professional adults.

Thank you to those that have offered serious advice.

PW, this is flightinfo and I’m not sure who told you that you would get serious answers, but I do know that they lied to you. Any useful information you could hope to gain from any thread here never makes it past page one. Try the PM feature and I think you will have better luck. I understand that AlbieF15 is quite good at helping people prepare. Bet of luck with the interview.

 

[learflyer]

I apologize, just in a good mood lately!

 

[SWAdude]

On a serious note.....

Don't try to be funny. We are not looking for comedians. Having a good sense of humor doesn't mean we are looking for people that can make others laugh. But find the humor in themselves and others.

 

[atafan]

WOW...WHAT HAPPENED? I thought this was a professional forum with professional adults.

This board is for entertainment first and solid intel a very distant second.

 

[:-)]

WOW...WHAT HAPPENED? I thought this was a professional forum with professional adults.

Thank you to those that have offered serious advice.

PW. First let me suggest that you drop a ten spot and get your own FI alias.

You need no other advice than mine, matter of fact, I broke the flippin code for ya. What you do with the info is up to you.

The Happy Man

 

[scoreboard]

Just thought I would bring attention to the posting on page one....

FYI we are doing this together. She is the one that signed up for the forum...I have the questions.

Thank you all for your help!

So grow some balls and pay 10 bucks for your own online name dude!!!

 

[pilots-wife]

Thank you, I will take that into consideration. Might I suggest some training in manners?

 

[radarlove]

I suggest answering your cell phone (twice) during the interview.

Did that really happen at SWA, or is it an urban legend?

 

[Huck]

I knew a guy (Ernie B., you out there?) who was interviewing at UAL. A secretary walked him down to the simulator, and she was cute with a tight sweater on. Ernie was trying to cop a look and walked straight into a corner. Dam' near knocked himself out.

He didn't get the job....

 

[scoreboard]

Thank you, I will take that into consideration. Might I suggest some training in manners?

How about some sense of humor training... Dude, dudette, best of luck, but come on, letting your wife speak for you, that will get you real far...

 

[SWA/FO]

Be yourself......that is.....the "yourself" SWA wants you to be.

and if you can't pull that one off, there is always UPS.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

On a serious note.....

Don't try to be funny. We are not looking for comedians. Having a good sense of humor doesn't mean we are looking for people that can make others laugh. But find the humor in themselves and others.

Jokes and gimmicks don't work. What works are the answers you give to the TMAAT questions. The one liners just before then are counter productive...

 

[ferlo]

Jesus,

It's just getting a job, not joining a cult. Play the game.

 

[SWA/FO]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNKSzmM44gE

 

[Yahtzee]

I suggest answering your cell phone (twice) during the interview.

Did that really happen at SWA, or is it an urban legend?

No urban legend....happened summer of 2004.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Pilot's wife (and pilot) .....

Be yourself......that is.....the "yourself" SWA wants you to be.

Good luck!

and if you can't pull that one off, there is always UPS.

I love watching you two go round and round. :beer:

 

[Benhuntn]

Don't adjust your privates and then stick your hand out for a hand shake greeting.

Don't look down any sweaters

Don't catch 3 different size fish when you tell your TMAAT stories

Don't stand in the closet for too long if you are directed there by mistake.