joe1234

And in a brilliant act of defiance against what he perceives to be a massive overreach of government by mandating vaccines, the governor of Texas engages in a massive overreach of government himself by banning private businesses from issuing mandates. You just have to appreciate the irony.

To all you airline bubbas out there, I enthusiastically support your fight against the mandate. Don't let them bully you. Resign your seniority number and show those corporate bastards the true power of voting with your feet.

And the hits just keep on coming: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/10/02/1042697933/vaccinations-american-alaska-airlines-jetblue

More than you thought? What, you're just now realizing what the temperature of the room is (and always has been)? But I suppose it's harder to notice when it's not coming in your direction.

I voted for Biden. And yeah, I'm happy. My W-2 is still higher than ever, my investments are progressing along nicely, and my property values have skyrocketed. In my particular champagne liberal paradise, vaccination rates are high, infection/hospitalization levels are low, and all of our family and friends are vaccinated (except the youngest, but we'll all probably jump on it when it gets approved). We're masked up, out and about, and enjoying life without too many issues. To tell you the truth though, all that would have probably happened regardless of who won the election. I generally support the masking/vaccine mandates. I'm hoping that will help open up reciprocal international travel agreements so my airline can turn an even higher profit. Plus, I'd imagine we'll shave off some seniority numbers because of it. And now that I think about it, mil promotion rates for those of us staying in will probably skyrocket because of so many guys like yourself choosing to die on this hill and get kicked out. Sucks they want to give you in particular an adverse discharge. Good luck with the future.

I can't tell if you're being facetious, but what you personally think being an officer is about, and the actual reasoning of why the DoD does certain things in order to affect a desired outcome among its middle management workforce, are two very different things.

Wow, this thread suddenly become silent after a key piece of information was revealed. Quick, does anyone here know any Olympians???? Surely, we could all benefit from a highly informed point of view following these new revelations!

United mandating vaccines for employees: https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-airlines-e8eef8e8f11d4924b81768484e5401a1 Rumors are that Delta's not far behind. Multiple Fortune 500 companies are issuing mandates. And of course, DoD is about to cave, too. It'll be interesting to see how forthright these freedom-loving patriots are when their income is threatened.

LMAO you sure got me, sick burn bro! Ironically, the older I get, the more I want to try D&D, it actually looks pretty entertaining.

Apologies, apparently this whole time you were a lifelong women's gymnastics superfan (that suspiciously chose this precise moment to weigh in on their passion). But I'm glad we have people like you to feel outraged on behalf of all those athletes that have overwhelmingly shown nothing but enthusiastic support for Biles' decision.

Actually, they are being talked about. You likely don't care because it's not politicized. I've literally never seen a single person here make even the slightest mention about women's gymnastics in the 16 or so years I've been on this board. But all of a sudden an explosion of interest happens out of the blue. Gee, I wonder why.

Isn't there usually a blanket interfly that every deployer is automatically subject to when they arrive in theater? It would be insane to have to execute a new document every time just to mix crews. I have definitely flown on jets with crewmembers from a different base on jets from a different base without a personally named interfly agreement.

Yeah, that's called normalization of deviance. I used to wonder why TACC is always so shocked when I tell them to fuck off after they pitch me some ridiculous schedule. Eventually, I realized that it's because most PIC's normalize bad operational scheduling practices.

The funny thing is, there actually are tons of job opportunities in CA if you have skills and expertise that the upper echelon of the market desires. It's the type of place you go when you want to maximize your career potential (along with NYC, LA, SF, DC, etc.) The typical upper class trust fund kid or Ivy kid graduating with elite prospects is going to move to place on the coast, not Nashville or Dallas...unless they have a personally compelling reason to be elsewhere. But yes I also agree that if you can't handle it out here, then you probably need to pack up and move on, because it'll break you if you don't.

Yes, I am telling him that. Congrats on getting the point. Moral of the story -- there is nobody else, he just has to deal. Maybe give Omega or those other dudes a call, idk. Is that a bad business model? Probably. My attitude? You have no clue what my personal attitude is, I'm simply relaying the truth that there is a huge disconnect in what the priorities are for line tanker crews vs. what the priorities are for customers. And I explained why things are the way they are. You don't have to like the truth, but you do have to live with it. My logic is simply this; if you, the customer, were that important, the people who decide where our time and effort is spent, would allocate it to supporting you. Ergo, if you are not getting the support you want, you weren't considered by those people to be that important to begin with. It's not like the MAF runs the Air Force, go take it up with the pointy nosed generals -- it's their show, not ours. See, this is the part that is bullshit. How can you sit there with a straight face, take an impossible situation with structural issues that's caused at the absolute highest levels of government, and then pass the buck to the young guys to make it better? There's not enough fucking airplanes and crews to go around, dude. I mean, seriously, WTF do you want these young guys to do? Work 16 hour days trying to manifest jets into reality and achieve higher mission capable rates through the power of positive thinking? Tanker crews for the most part do their honest to god best to work with customers and give them the best support they can, but at the end of the day, you get what you get.

I mean fighter guys can blame us for not caring more, but at the end of the day, MAF controls where our time and effort is spent. I'm not going to sit here and laser focus on your pet interest while blowing off the other 10 mission sets demanding my bandwidth. Want my advice? Go around the MAF to get your AR support.

Tankers support like 20 different mission sets and 10 different bosses. Everybody wants a piece of us, and they also happens to think their particular mission is the most important thing everrrrr. Newsflash: it's not. It's just another random TDY in a blur of other random TDYs, and all the tanker dude is worried about is the closest alligator to the boat, which is usually a deployment or a NORI, not pretend SAM rings in a pretend war.

Vettel is washed He's in a new car and maybe that's the difficulty, but his ending at Ferrari was pretty bad. He could probably ride his championships a lot farther than Alonso or Kimi have theirs, if only he could manage to consistently compete well in the midfield, but even that seems like it might be out of reach. I'll save my judgment for Ricciardo until mid-season, but I'm not too optimistic.

GI Bill service requirement can continue to be served out in the ARC, assuming there's no break in service. The only thing that's required is membership, aka being scrolled. You don't even have to be actively participating.

To paraphrase an old quote, it's going to be difficult to get someone to understand something when their relative station in life depends upon them not understanding it.

The sky is falling! I've always heard people say the country is "going to hell" for like 30 years now. Some people even think the decline started 50 years ago. At what point do we actually get there? While we're on the subject, who are the weak men supposed to be? If these weak men are creating hard times, then where do the strong men come from? After all, you said history repeats itself. Tread lightly on this answer, because you might end up complimenting the wrong people by accident.

Originally I was in favor of AB5 because the race to the bottom was progressing a little too fast. But after Prop 22 was voted in, I've realized that if people want to become wage slaves and live in a permanent underclass, then let them. Team Joe will get along just fine and then promptly pull chocks once the dystopia gets too real.

https://deadline.com/2021/01/parler-ceo-says-service-dropped-by-every-vendor-and-could-end-the-company-1234670607/ The invisible hand of the free market, folks. Maybe the citizens of MAGAstan should use some of that QAnon patriot energy to learn how to code and develop their own apps instead of....whatever it is that they do.... I don't know, maybe buy some more guns and shoot at Twitter, that'll probably solve the problem.

I think it's hilarious how I'm now seeing people talking about how Twitter/Facebook shouldn't be allowed to ban or censor public officials ("freedom of speech!"), or that Apple/Google shouldn't be allowed to take certain apps off of their store. And here I am thinking, so wait, you're saying certain certain services and goods are too crucial to be managed by the free market and must be nationalized for the common welfare of the public? Now we've come full circle.

I always come to view this thread when political stuff happens to see what the other side thinks for entertainment. I mean, one would think that a group of armed protestors storming the Capital of the United States while it was literally in session to declare a winner of an election and complete a peaceful transfer of power, literally THE most defining characteristic of a functioning democratic republic, would have people around here a little more outraged. But honestly it's like this grudging feeble admittance that it's a bad thing and a bunch of "ok yeah fine but hey what about that time all those BLM protests broke windows at department stores..." And these are supposed educated military officers with a vested interest in defending the Constitution talking like this, not your normal rank and file idiot. Think about that. The fucking capital building of the United States. I feel like America's jumped the shark at this point.