Just Got Back From Temping In Phl.

[WNjetdoc]

Just want to say I went on a road trip to PHL this week. I was up there because they are short in Maint. right now as one guy bid out, and one guy is in school, so that leaves one guy working, and he can't work all the time.

I want to say that all the folks we have up there are GREAT! Super, super friendly and very helpful, the managers, contract cleaners, sups, rampers, everyone.

The station brought back memories of how BWI was when it first started. Very small, everyone knew everyone back then. Hugs were being thrown around like you wouldn't believe. A lot of the folks up there are new hires but there are quite a few internal transfers, so the "old timers" are keeping the SWA culture alive, which is very important.

Its not that BWI has lost anything but when there are hundreds of employees, well its difficult to know all of them.

The only negative experience I had up there was from folks from another "certain" airline up there, I won't mention the name but they have more flights than anyone else there. I was driving around in the maint. tug, (with proper escort of course). It was dark by then, but on three different occasions, and three different vehicles, workers from this "certain" airline would blast by us and jam on the horn, for a long time. It wasn't like a friendly horn blast either, it was like a , "f-you" blast.

It was all good though, as I used to work for that "certain" airline up in there PHL, so I know the culture and attitude they have. I just smiled as I knew I was heading to a SWA airplane to work on.

Peace.

 

[wnbubbleboy]

The only negative experience I had up there was from folks from another "certain" airline up there, I won't mention the name but they have more flights than anyone else there. I was driving around in the maint. tug, (with proper escort of course). It was dark by then, but on three different occasions, and three different vehicles, workers from this "certain" airline would blast by us and jam on the horn, for a long time. It wasn't like a friendly horn blast either, it was like a , "f-you" blast.


We are "Union" people working for a company trying to make a living just like anybody else. Why be angry with some in the uniform working on the gate next to you. It's a useless jesture, all it does is ensure I'll never stop to help you with your flat tire, or dead battery on the way out of the employee parking lot.

 

[Bluestreak]

I work for that unmentioned airline and I love seeing the canyon blue 737s in PHL. You guys are a breath of fresh air at an otherwise rotten airport. Please don't put us out out business until I get hired at SWA 😀 .

 

[ramper_in_las]

I work for that unmentioned airline and I love seeing the canyon blue 737s in PHL. You guys are a breath of fresh air at an otherwise rotten airport. Please don't put us out out business until I get hired at SWA 😀 .

[post="229844"][/post]​

we need some rampers in LAS.... c'mon over

 

[av8trxx]

I work for that unmentioned airline...don't put us out out business until I get hired at SWA 😀

[post="229844"][/post]​

That sick out that just happened will have do more to accelerate your demise than anything SWA does. If you want out, get out now before the ship sinks! WN is hiring ramp agents in PHL, MHT, BDL, PVD & BWI. Get on it NOW. Seniority is everything-
http://www.southwest.com/careers/

 

[N924PS]

I work for that unmentioned airline and I love seeing the canyon blue 737s in PHL. You guys are a breath of fresh air at an otherwise rotten airport. Please don't put us out out business until I get hired at SWA 😀 .

[post="229844"][/post]​

You won't make it. Although WN interviews plenty of U applicants, few get hired because of "the USAir stink" as one of WN's managers puts it. Might as well change your name to BROWNSTREAK.

Next time you get paid, remember WN isn't signing your check yet.

 

[wnbubbleboy]

You won't make it. Although WN interviews plenty of U applicants, few get hired because of "the USAir stink" as one of WN's managers puts it. Might as well change your name to BROWNSTREAK.

Next time you get paid, remember WN isn't signing your check yet.

[post="232018"][/post]​

Several people from U over here. The only stink is from WNjetdoc.

 

[WNjetdoc]

Several people from U over here. The only stink is from WNjetdoc.

[post="232151"][/post]​

Hey Bubbleboy, if it stinks so bad how come you always ask me to come over into your small, airtight bubble, prior to my alleged offensive odoriferous expulsion?

BTW, you can't compare me to "Kramer", (spelling changed), that boy can run people out of a room. Sheeze, folks would be tearing and ripping your bubble apart to get away from that guys odor, :blink: .

 

[markkus757]

What's the latest on the gate situation in PHL for WN. I know they started with 4, but I've heard they (obviously) are looking for more. Any more WN PHL gates in the near future?

 

[wnbubbleboy]

You won't make it. Although WN interviews plenty of U applicants, few get hired because of "the USAir stink" as one of WN's managers puts it. Might as well change your name to BROWNSTREAK.

Next time you get paid, remember WN isn't signing your check yet.

[post="232018"][/post]​

Here's a chance at a new start. Stink or no Stink.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - To speed the hiring of 30 new ramp and provisioning agents, Southwest Airlines offered bonuses of $2,500 to new hires who make it past six-month probationary periods in the $8.75-an-hour jobs.

The ramp agents direct airplanes in and out of gates and load and unload bags and freight, and the provisioning agents stock beverages and snacks on the planes.

Southwest will pay the new employees a $1,250 bonus after 30 days in the jobs, and $1,250 more after the six-month probation.

"It's hard to get that many people quickly," Southwest spokeswoman Melanie Jones said.

Southwest started service at Philadelphia International Airport a year ago with 14 daily flights, and will have 50 daily flights by this summer, the airport's second-largest carrier after US Airways.