Delta Psychological Eval Lawsuit?

ppragman said:
Aren't you the fake news guy? Just saying.


Here's a case, employers aren't allowed to use tests that don't correlate to job aptitude or ability to learn.
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Oh. I legit don’t know. That case sounds shady, like straight up racism to keep a certain group down at a level they want them to work at. That’s illegal (and racist).


My now-disappeared former employer required an online assessment, a personality test and a 20 question math test that timed 3 minutes per question and your ability to solve and get the correct answer. None of those were related to flying or the pilot job. Yet it’s still legal.
 
MikeD said:
Agreed they do seem kind of messed up. Just seems more messed up that there would be one as presumably some measure of maintaing some kind of quality standard in the pilot group to fly Delta pax around. Yet with the regional partners, theres no apparent quality standard of this same kind for those pilots to be flying these same pax around, even though everything else looks the same to the average passenger of being on a Delta flight. Be interesting to, in some way, find out how many code share regional pilots who applied for Delta, didn't pass the exam, and by extension, don't have the mental fitness presumably (whatever that is) to fly Delta pax around. :)
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I’m one of the mentally disabled ones. Not emotionally, I’m just stupid. ;)
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Recent events have me believing a psych evaluation or some sort of personality inventory and assessment is probably a good idea, to be honest.
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Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Lubitz passed all his initial Lufthansa psych evaluation exams and was perfectly calm and collected when he flew an Airbus into a side of a mountain.
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Some, not all sociopaths/psychopaths can beat a polygraph, psych eval testing etc. They're not fool proof.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Oh. I legit don’t know. That case sounds shady, like straight up racism to keep a certain group down at a level they want them to work at. That’s illegal (and racist).


My now-disappeared former employer required an online assessment, a personality test and a 20 question math test that timed 3 minutes per question and your ability to solve and get the correct answer. None of those were related to flying or the pilot job. Yet it’s still legal.
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It could be that a) no one called them out so they got away with it for a long time, b) they were able to show that the testing they did directly correlated with job performance, or c) they didn't care and did it anyway regardless of the law

I'd suspect that they're all equally likely.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Recent events have me believing a psych evaluation or some sort of personality inventory and assessment is probably a good idea, to be honest.
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That's fair enough, I'm kind of inclined to think that a good interview process that's lonner than 1 day can weed out the weirdos and nutjobs pretty well, but "ain't nobody got time for that!"
 
ppragman said:
That's fair enough, I'm kind of inclined to think that a good interview process that's lonner than 1 day can weed out the weirdos and nutjobs pretty well, but "ain't nobody got time for that!"
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Even @Derg will admit that most people can be enough of a sociopath to pass an interview.

Personally? I would take all my applicants out to dinner and make them drink.
 
Hell, if I ran an airline, know what I know about pilots, if the available labor market allowed me selectivity, I would have the MOTHER OF ALL PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES as part of my evaluation process.

You can be profoundly idiotic and manage to fly an airplane excellently but literally be a social and CRM misfit.
 
trafficinsight said:
It's true, I secretly love to take people's things apart and reassemble them, and inform people about the presence of things they own. Also, let's go to the playground and swing on the swings, but don't touch the sand because it's lava.

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“The sand is LAVA!”

*eek* *eek* *runs around in circles*
 
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