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In Dallas With PilotCAT Taining - 9/29/2005 2:49:07 PM
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Willinsky
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After sending out my resume to a few companies, PilotCat called me and wanted me to attend classes in Dallas. I have been here since Sept 23rd and continue to be trained On MS/B Integriclaim. Allstate Insurance is the company I will be adjusting for as soon as I recieve a group of claims. Right Now I am just studing and waiting here for DE Ployment...
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/29/2005 2:51:26 PM
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Willinsky
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Anyone interested should go to there website for employment information
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/29/2005 5:24:21 PM
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csandrew
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Willinsky,
How long did it take after you applied for them to contact you? Also, did you have any experience?
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/29/2005 7:07:53 PM
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ldnicklas
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Take as much training as you can get. My group on the 9th got 3days only and only about 2hrs of training on the program. Consider yourself lucky. The group before me got 7days. All`s good though. In answer to how long after applying do you get a call....my case 3days.
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/29/2005 7:45:43 PM
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okclarryd
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Spell check.
Use spell check.
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Taining - 9/29/2005 7:53:26 PM
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warrior
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Beware of Pilot, they are hiring anyone and everyone.... You pass the drug test your in and no felonys your in... Here is how it works.. They give you six months of training in 4 days.... They pay you a day rate and per deim in training... Now if you are assigned claims while in training thats tuff you are off the day rate and on you own.. The support you get from pilot ****S...
Now if you have claims in New Orleans that you can't inspect they promise to put you back on day rate and all they want you to do is work your files diary etc... ok thats fine ... but when it comes time to pay thats a different story, their excuse is you have claims so your not on day rate.. You go to your admin manager he says you should be paid you t/a states the same thing
but you DON'T get paid.... So pilot has a reputation of this and as an Experience Adjuster for 23 years I found out the hard way... I love to work but you can't look at homes with a scuba gear in New Orleans... So beware of pilot...
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Taining - 9/29/2005 8:44:57 PM
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csandrew
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Thanks for the informative information. I applied with them today. I will definitely need training. Do they give you a choice of where you can go? The reason I ask is that I live in Texas and would prefer to stay here.
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/29/2005 8:50:35 PM
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warrior
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Another deal with pilot Tony Makin makes all the remarks about texans some one should clock him its awful in class when you are trying to learn all of the procedures. He is just a little _ _ _ _I guess a texan must have kicked his ass .
Pilot ****s, I know in the last two weeks over 50 qualified adjusters have quit due to the lies of pay scales. They promise you 65% of the billing then in class they say 60% and now flood losses are 50%!!!!! Whats up with that.... Next week 40%????
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/29/2005 9:09:00 PM
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csandrew
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Are there any better companies than Pilot that offers training? I just can't imagine jumping in with no one telling you what to do. That just does not sound right. Especially when people are in such desperate need in most cases.
I spent 2 days running out of Houston from Rita. What a nightmare that was. I guess it would have been more of a nightmare to come home to destruction.
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/29/2005 9:24:29 PM
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sbeau4014
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Donnie, it is quite apparant you don't like Pilot, and maybe it's a good call for you not to work for them. You will be miserable if you don't like or trust your employer. To each his own, and there are a lot of other companies out there you can go to and work for. It's not like there are too many adjusters out there to handle the claims so I'm sure you have had plenty of calls from the competition to work. I've worked with them quite a bit and they have never failed to pay me every two weeks like clockwork, whether they have been paid on the files or not. Most of what I've seen on this site has been pretty positive when it comes to this company and their pay. I don't know the school that you attended in Dallas, but it is my understanding that it is geared for brand new adjusters to give them the fundamentals of claims handling and they do try to drill as much information in as quickly as possible. It isn't designed for the "experienced adjuster for 23 years", and I would guess it would be pretty boring for you to attend as it should all be very redundant. You will find that they probably have the best tech support staff in the field that the adjusters can go to with questions on claims, etc. Just my take on the company. I wish you luck in your endeavors out there.
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/29/2005 9:46:23 PM
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Wes
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Pilot I would venture to say is the most well known and trusted vendor in the country and you don't get to be well known by doing a bad job. Get in with Pilot and your set for life. That being said there are a lot of good vendors out there.
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/29/2005 10:44:47 PM
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rtlcat
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I worked for Pilot on my first CAT, Floyd '99. Tony Makin was my storm manager, and new I was a greenhorn. He put me with a top flight adjuster mentor, that saved my butt. Had it not been for Tony, and that mentor, I would not have made it, or learned DDS, now Integra, and possibly would have gone home and never adjusted again. Tony is all bark, and I worked the Chicago ice storm '2000-2001. He razzed me when I first got there...like "God help us now", I laughed it off, and told him to suit up and watch me go. I closed 35 claims that week on the phone, when the average was 10. So, he realized this Texan was for real. Don't be to quick to judge him, or Pilot, they are all good people. Let's face it. All IA firms are desperate right now, and if Pilot had not taken a chance on me in '99 when they were desperate, I would probably be a rumor, instead of an adjuster.
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Taining - 9/30/2005 7:17:05 AM
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RobertV
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I can only sing praises for Tony and the Pilot family. They've always treated me 'better than I deserve.'
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Taining - 9/30/2005 8:15:56 AM
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newtonclaimstim
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Warrior, You are correct about Pilot and the bait and switch. Thought we where deploying to work flood for Isabell due to age
problems. We got to NC and got handed 85 wind claims on the Outter Banks tried to get a daily rate until we get located and flatly told NO. There T/A complained it was 4 hrs. from Raleigh and no address just PO boxes to find. We agreed to end our relationship.
Best thing that could have happened to me, Good Luck to All
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/30/2005 10:35:55 AM
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Willinsky
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Thanks for the advise on that spell check, as for how many days was it before they called me. I passed the Texas State License Property/ Casualty Insurance Test and was issued my License Aug 29th, I then sent out some resumes online one to pilot.
They called me up within 7 days. Im still here in Dallas since the 23rd now waiting for claims. Im still being paid daily rate while waiting here. Good Time to study all the information that was presented to me. Some have already recieved claims for Louisiana, Texas, and one for Mississippi. Im living in Spring Texas a few miles north of Houston and would be really happy if I get Texas Claims.
The Training that I recieved here was really Great and The Instructors will take there time and help you out if you need it. The MS/B software seems to be user friendly but like anything new it takes time. If There are any other questions feel free to ask. Im just glad that I was picked up and given the chance to learn.
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/30/2005 11:29:18 AM
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AllCatMan
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I have to add my praise for Pilot, I have worked for them for several years. They have always treated me more fairly than I deserved. Even when I have the occasional "bad" storm when nothing goes right and my head is not in the game, they have always understood and I was back out on the next storm. My first storm was scary as hell, they handed me a stack of files and said 'go get 'em boy. That was before they had enough field support to go around, now they have alot of field support, including help rooms scattered over the area where a new adjuster can take his scope notes, computer and an attitude of wanting to learn, and the staff there will assist them in writting the claims. Remember that is the way that the company you work for gets paid, when you close a claim.
I realize that no company is perfect, nor does everyone fit the same mold, but as for me and the several thousand that call Pilot home, they are the ones for me. My pay is always there (been late a few times due to hardships at the home office (fire, storm, and the like) but it has always been there. I can pick up the phone and call anyone no matter if they are my 'assigned' T/A (technical adviser) or if they are on a different storm, and they have always answered any question or addressed any problem that I had.
I do take offence when someone has something bad to say about them. I have seen ,first hand, how they feel about thier adjusters. On one occassion an adjuster lost his wife while on the road, Curtis Pilot called him and told him that he would have her body flown home and help with the arrangements out of his pocket, he didn't have to do that. Another adjuster last year in Florida was hospitalized for an anurism, he almost died, the Pilots again stepped up, they rented a 4 bedroom house so that his family could be with him for almost 2 months untill he could return home.
No I guess the Pilot Company is as good as there is. I would not consider working for anyone else.
That of course is just one man's opinion.
Tony...well he is a different matter. HaHa...he is OK too.
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/30/2005 1:15:42 PM
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quase
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I agree with you... as a comment, i called Pilot on Tuesday and the woman in HR told me that Pilot does not hire new adjusters, that the classes they have serve only as an orientation. also, she commented that they stopped hiring last week or so, that they had more than enough adjusters, etc. strange how each of us get seemingly different responses....
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/30/2005 1:18:37 PM
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quase
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What are their minimum requirements for hiring? I called on tuesday and they said they did not train people, but just had orientation and that as of last week they were full up. just curious. thanks,
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/30/2005 1:59:01 PM
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csandrew
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I went to the website and it said not to call, but to email their online application. That is what I did. I have a friend that started working for them several months ago and his trade was plumbing. They trained him for 4 days and off he went.
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RE: In Dallas With PilotCAT Training - 9/30/2005 7:13:09 PM
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Willinsky
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Well I just down loaded 23 claims from Metaire La, Tomorrow I will be back in class for NFIP Certification. Then Its Off To The Races.
Any advice would be deeply appreciated.
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