[QUOTE=High Wing Drifter;3006692]Mad Jock,
The roles you describe don't scream "vive la difference!" to me, but "vive la conformiste!" (excuse bad French, but hopefully you see my point). What I suspect you have identified is that those people who have worked successfully in institutions are probably compatible with the rigid and relatively authoritarian structure of many airlines.
HWD,
I don't agree with you one bit. What MJ is implying, is that the people he quoted are anything but conformist.
If you think serving your Country, willing to sacrifice one's own life, showing maturity, and down right unselfishness and good old traditional British stiff upper lip is conformist, think again.
These people are now - unfortunately- are exceptions due to the mind-numbing, uneducated idiots, self-opinionated, MTV-BB TV watching, rolled in cotton wool, chauffeur driven pansies that the mass media call the "YOOF".
So when the CV gets through the HR dept. The Chief Pilot smiles and thinks....
conversation, likes a beer (without getting p1$$ed), got a life outside work.
Sorry, but the YOOF of today..................
