DL Hiring: New Process
#4761
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That's not arbitrary either. Hire date is seniority, so obviously dates a week apart are set in stone. People that start on the same day must be sorted in some other fashion, that's a law of nature. Drawing straws, flipping coins, portions of SSNs, those have no basis other than random selection, age does not.
#4762
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That's not arbitrary either. Hire date is seniority, so obviously dates a week apart are set in stone. People that start on the same day must be sorted in some other fashion, that's a law of nature. Drawing straws, flipping coins, portions of SSNs, those have no basis other than random selection, age does not.
#4763
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It doesn’t NEED changing as obviously we’ve done quite fine this way for years. It is just more interesting to note that we are different than nearly every other carrier in the US, because of reasons…
#4764
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But I would support a future change to age within a new hire class because that is more fair to older pilots within a class. The myth of "age related lawsuits" is a nothingburger.
There is nothing inherently unfair about a 23 year old ninja with a 9999 last 4 being the plug within a class while the 61 year old flow with a 0001 number gets that one little advantage one time. Its actually more fair because the ninja will have decades more long after the older ones are gone. They don't need a few more numbers right out the gate.
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