Southwest "Poolie" calls are going out

[Quiet Flight]

Bigoober,

Guy in my interview group did this. Seriously. I won't tell you his background. (USAF) He also didn't answer when the interview gal started calling names to head to the interview room until she referred to him as "Callsign".

Interview girl: Is Joe Schmoe here? Joe? Schmoe, Joseph?

Callsign guy: Oh do you mean Joe "Vapor" Schmoe? 'Cause if so, that's me! <------- Not his real callsign.

Interview girl: Uh, ok. Come with me...

High comedy I tell ya. He is not a pilot for SWA now...

Congrats to you! Welcome aboard! See you at the party!! :beer:

 

[Bigoober]

Callsign guy: Oh do you mean Joe "Vapor" Schmoe? 'Cause if so, that's me! <------- Not his real callsign.

There are always some who make it easy to weed out the gene pool. Thanks for the laugh!

 

[Tanker Clown]

Congrats guys!

BTW, my buddy got his whole November schedule cleared to go to HQ in Dallas to work with management on a project he would rather not have me let anyone in on. A little hint, it's a pilot productivity enhancement project. I'll let you know any info I get from him. He thinks he might even get a permanent job in Dallas!

 

[texman]

I know who it is. Or is it you.lol

 

[MILPILOT17]

Tanker TOOL has spoken!

 

[GuppyWN]

Congrats guys!

BTW, my buddy got his whole November schedule cleared to go to HQ in Dallas to work with management on a project he would rather not have me let anyone in on. A little hint, it's a pilot productivity enhancement project. I'll let you know any info I get from him. He thinks he might even get a permanent job in Dallas!

Tell Hugo he can kiss my ass!

Gup

 

[Tanker Clown]

Will do Guppy. Please PM me your name so I can tell him.

 

[Captzaahlie]

Speaking of......

From what I remember, there are 188 training slots for the classes coming up in the next quarter yet I believe only 170-something poolies coming in. Does Southwest plan on opening up the app to fill that small void?

I know I it should open up soon anyways just to have the data from the new format.

There are really 170 poolies?
Thought it was less, impatiently
waiting for the application window
to open again.
Congrats to all you guys drying off for class!

 

[4 Fan Trashcan]

Congrats guys!

BTW, my buddy got his whole November schedule cleared to go to HQ in Dallas to work with management on a project he would rather not have me let anyone in on. A little hint, it's a pilot productivity enhancement project. I'll let you know any info I get from him. He thinks he might even get a permanent job in Dallas!

TC. It was great to meet you in Dallas during the re-interview.

 

[Richard Gozinya]

Tell Hugo he can kiss my ass!

Gup

Gup speaks for me!

Dick

 

[shagadelic]

My guess is that if TC has Hugo on his side, he's a shoe-in for employment at SWA.

 

[Captzaahlie]

My guess is that if TC has Hugo on his side, he's a shoe-in for employment at SWA.

Thats what he's been telling us all along.

 

[Tanker Clown]

Sorry guys. I'll buy drinks at new hire class the first night! Can't wait to start!

 

[Bigoober]

There are really 170 poolies?
Thought it was less, impatiently
waiting for the application window
to open again.
Congrats to all you guys drying off for class!

Yup, plus or minus a few.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear the app window opening again soon though as this round of hiring will drain the pool.

 

[737tanker]

There are really 170 poolies?
Thought it was less, impatiently
waiting for the application window
to open again.

There were 207 poolies, of which 33 didn't do the re-interview. Of the 174 that did the re-interview 6 were removed from the pool. Those 6 were removed for things such as being terminated and other issues that caused them not to be hireable, changes that were brought about due to the Colgan crash. That leaves SWA 20 short of the 188 they need for the scheduled classes. The word is that they will offer those slots to internals, such as flight instructors.