When seniority starts at SWA?

[whiff]

Anyone know when seniority starts at SWA. Is it the first day of class or after IOE? Just curious when you hit 2nd year pay. Thanks to anyone with info.

 

[JayhawkDude]

You are assigned an employee/seniority number on day one of ground school. Within a class it is based on age. Second year pay depends on the day of the month of new hire class. The 1st through the 15th means you get paid that month. The 16th through 30th or whatever has to wait until the month following. My new hire class began March 15th and I started second year pay March 1st the following year. One day later for ground school would have meant one more month of first year pay.

 

[N1atEcon]

First day of class. They gave it to us right after we got our wings.

 

[JayhawkDude]

N1-


Beat you by seconds!

 

[whiff]

thanks for the info

 

[crudzilla]

SWA Rocks

Senority starts day one!
Here's a great story; a buddy of mine is in class for two or three days--phone rings and it's Uncle Sam wanting him to sweat in the sand for two years (no, unfortunately he's not the lotion boy for the olympic women's volleyball team). He does his time and comes back approximately 5,000 employee numbers ahead of me (good on him). The point is--there's no language about trained vs. in-training. SW supports him throughout his activation with care packages and cards and his line number is intact. He was with the company two days! A lot of other airlines would've made him repeat the entire process!

 

[Mr Hat]

First day of class. They gave it to us right after we got our wings.

Man, I can only imagine what it felt like to get those wings....

 

[SWA/FO]

awesome baby!!!