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Fast moving working environment.
Project Manager (consultant) (Former Employee), Dallas, TX – March 12, 2013
Pros: monthly birthday celebration
Cons: n/a
A typical day at SWA was completed with high energy and fun. The co-workers are great people that embrace the SWA culture.
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Company has a meditation room
Customer Support Representative (Current Employee), Chicago, IL – March 11, 2013
Wonderful company very well rounded. Southwest love Their customers and employees.
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Delivering Customer Service with a positive attitude
Customer Service Representative (Former Employee), Chicago, IL – March 6, 2013
Pros: the customers and my fellow employees
Cons: airport shutdowns
Provided customer complaint resolution, sale and upgrade sales of service, providing air, car and hotel arrangements for travelers, scheduling new routing in the event of plane delay or natural causes, authorization of monetary compensation to passengers, relocation of misplaced items on plane or baggage, resolution of escalated customer care complaints.

I – more... learned excellent customer service skills. This environment was team player orientated. We all worked together.

It was great to be able to turn a not so happy customer into a satisfied happy customer.

The customers were the most enjoyable part of the job. The hardest was when the airports were closed and we could not get travelers out during that time.

The management was awesome. Southwest is an excellent company to work for. – less
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productive environment
Legendary Customer Service (Current Employee), Oklahoma City, OK – March 1, 2013
I enjoy my current job because I am a people person and I like solving peoples issues.
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very productive and love the challenge and team player
Ccr Customer Care Representative (Current Employee), Phoenix, AZ – February 27, 2013
Pros: hard worker, always on time, no absences, no call on sick
Cons: hard work, perfectionist, fallow direction, go over and beyond till get work done
There is no typical day at work everyday I go to work is to have fun and enjoy every single day I work and tomorrow is another challenge need to pass again and move on to the second level of my day.. I just smile and forget about it. I learned allot working in Southwest, I learned to be patient and be a there to other who need help for specific transaction – more... ( be a team player) . I love to share my experience to my co worker and have fun with it. I love my job in Southwest Airlines I can travel anywhere I want to as long as I have money in my pocket. – less
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Great company
Avionics Engineer (Former Employee), Dallas, TX – February 21, 2013
Great company to work for. Excellent working environment. Great coworkers. Good benefits.
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Airport sevices
Skycap (Former Employee), Oakland, CA – February 18, 2013
Pros: pay
Cons: swing shift
Baggage Claim services and wheel chair services. Help passangers check in to their gates.
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Fun Place
SAP FICO Functional Consultant (Former Employee), Dallas, TX – February 14, 2013
• Worked with SMEs in gathering business and functional requirements through user workshops, gap analysis, and preparing blue prints for AS-IS and TO-BE process systems.
• Configured and customized new company codes, New General ledger functionality- created master records, configured number ranges and G/L accounts for company codes. Also defined and – more... configured Charts of Accounts, Account groups, Field status Variant, Fiscal year variant, and intercompany G/L accounts and revenue accounts.
• In A/P, configured Vendor Down payment, Installment payment, Automatic payment program, Check management, and recurring entries.
• Working on customer/vendor master records, tolerance limits per business requirement for over payments and under payments, set up the reason codes and in open item management in customer accounts.
• Integrating FI with SD and MM, providing configuration support in SD, MM integration for account determination, material movement setup, and inter-company billing.
• Worked with SD consultant to implement time related revenue recognition.
• Creating primary and secondary cost elements, created cost element groups and assigning number ranges to groups. Configuring automatic and manual cost element creation.
• Creating cost center standard hierarchy, configuring the Reconciliation Ledgers, activity types and statistical key figures.
• Accountable for running test cycles under Distribution and Assessment for every month end operations and resolving uploaded error logs.
• Defined Profitability segments, user defined characteristics and value fields.
• Provided training to end users and post production support for the Go-Live system. – less
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Great place to start your career!
Purchasing Intern (Former Employee), Dallas, TX – February 12, 2013
I learned a lot from my internship at Southwest Airlines! The management team provides a lot of support and everybody wants to see you succeed.
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fun place to work and very rewarding
Administrative Coordinator/Regional Administrator (Former Employee), Chicago, IL – February 11, 2013
Pros: fun
Cons: nothing bad to say about this
This was one of the best companies to work for. They listen to your suggestions, willing to teach you to further your future with them, great benefits that I am still being rewarded with.
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Don't get hired in Denver
Customer Service Agent (Former Employee), Denver, CO – February 1, 2013
Pros: a lot of perks
Cons: mandatory overtime, 2 week training in dallas in a hotel in the red light district
If you get hired somewhere else then it will be an amazing adventure but not in Denver. THe back to back mandatory overtime will wear you down quick. The 6 months probation know you can get fired for someone else's mistakes not worth the risk. I visited other stations and they are amazing. Apply for a different department other than Customer Service – more... and you'll do just fine. – less
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if your union its good.. but dead ended
Ground Operations Agent (Former Employee), las vegas, nv – January 31, 2013
Pros: health care, 401k
Cons: managemant
typical day is the exact same as yesterday. Maybe a Little weather will rumble your day or sick employee. Culture is very poor. Management is blind to employee harassment or just looks the other way. they will do anything possible to NOT accommodate or meet requirements set by government for ADA- Americans with Disabilities Act and any other LAWS that – more... were made to help protect employees.
prenatal and postnatal care or compassion is unheard of! – less
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great company and great people to work with
Flight Attendant (Former Employee), Orlando, FL – January 31, 2013
Pros: free travel benefits
with a busy schedule your on the go alot and away from home. but the people you work with and the company you work for makes you feel at home.
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Fun place to work
CS&S - Customer Care and Bilingual Representative (Former Employee), Houston – January 29, 2013
Pros: culture and fun loving atmosphere
Cons: overtime can get out of hand sometimes.
Had fun even if I was being worked to the bone but loved it. There was a reason to have a party at work monthly if not weekly.
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Fast Paced Airport Environment
Assistant Station Manager (Current Employee), New York, NY – January 22, 2013
LGA provides constant challenges to an airline's airport operation. There are many opportunities to learn how to efficiently run a business operation in a fast paced and constantly evolving work environment.
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Great company to work for.
Mailroom Clerk (Former Employee), Dallas, TX – January 16, 2013
Pros: great benefits, loving coworkers, great work enviroment
This is a very great place to work with loving people and a caring management staff.
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Outstanding company to work and fly for.
Captain, Check Airman, FAA Evaluator (Former Employee), Phoenix,AZ and Las Vegas, NV – January 10, 2013
Pros: excellent people, benefits and opportunities
Cons: it is a airline and as a crew member, you are away from home a grab deal
I am a Captain and fly a regular schedule. I also am a Check Airman. In that capacity, I assist in the the training, evaluating and checking of pilots in their proficiency through simulator train/check events and online during a revenue flight. I held a position of base chief pilot for Las Vegas from 2007-2010. Directly managed 600 pilots in that domicile. – more... Responsible for the day to day operation of the base. – less
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Internship (Former Employee), Dallas, TX – January 8, 2013
Management were very friendly and nice to you. Co-workers there were super nice and helpful.
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Just an awesum place to work
Contract Engineer (Former Employee), Dallas, TX – January 4, 2013
Pros: everything runs smooth and the people are amongst some of the best in the business.
Cons: airline maintenance work happens at night
From the top management to the lowest employee, Southwest Airlines is anothe Gold standard for places to work!
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Fly for fun
Source of Support Representative (Former Employee), Dallas, TX – January 3, 2013
Pros: free flights, great corporate parties, charity work in the community
Cons: pay, unable to travel during holidays.
I enjoyed each day we always had new challenges helping internal customers. My co-workers were great. We helped each other daily. The hardest part of my day of my day would be the time constraints when dealing with customers but I also feel great when I help someone.
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About Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines Co. (Southwest) is a passenger airline that provides scheduled air transportation in the United States. As – Read more