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    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

    in Squadron Bar

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    It’s not that you should have quotas or some of the other excesses of modern DEI warriors. But just ask yourself if, given that talent is relatively evenly distributed (maybe you don’t believe this), what led to a certain career field still being 95/5 split in 2023? Is that a desirable end state?
    There was a time when basically all prestigious career fields were approx 100% male. Doctors, lawyers, surgeons, elected leaders, CEOs, etc. That’s no longer the case, and I say that’s for the better for everyone. Maybe you don’t believe that either.
    ATP pilots are a bit of an outlier still being so highly male, why is that? Like I mentioned, even some of the most stereotypically female careers (that pay way less) are more gender-balanced. Some imbalance is due to preferences and all else, but 95/5? Likely not.
    I actually, no-shit, believe that diversity across numerous dimensions makes us stronger and it’s ok if you don’t, but that’s the foundational belief for supporting programs that help bring underrepresented people into high-status, important fields. Trying to give voice however imperfectly to the other side of a lot of what’s posted here.

    I get what you are trying to say. And to a certain extent I agree about what you are saying about diversities. However I think a white male and another white male can be an example of diversity. Not because of their skin and crotch obviously but because of an untold number of other diversity factors.

    Sex and skin color are some of the worst indicators of diversity imaginable. And yet that’s what’s focused on.
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    The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)

    in Squadron Bar

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    Yea I agree with almost all of this.
    It does make you wonder when there’s a highly desirable, lucrative and respected career that’s 95% one gender (or race or whatever), that’s not what you’d expect to naturally occur. Probably worth putting some effort to assess if that makes sense or if it is a societal effect that’s not actually helping make that career field better.
    Don’t hire people because of their race or gender or whatever or hire unqualified people, but open up your recruiting lenses and offer opportunities and push people who are underrepresented to apply. There are amazing, too 10% future pilots we’ll miss out on if you don’t do those things, and you’ll have to hire instead more center- or below-center-of-mass in-group folks just to fill the seats.
    I’ll say it again, there’s a brittleness to too much sameness. Fully agree that modern DEI stuff is usually insane so don’t put that evil on me Ricky Bobby.

    5% female. Have you ever considered that maybe they don’t want to do the same jobs as men? Why are their so many male construction workers or mechanics? Why aren’t the women equally represented?


    Are there other possible answers other than sexism or racism to your perceived problems? And are those reasons way more likely to answer your why question than the system is broken and racist, sexist or some sort of ist?

    Do you understand that equity is more likely actually racist or sexist than it isnt?

    And do the groups who you claim are under represented feel this way too in actuality or is it just you being offended on their behalf instead of what is the most equal and right thing to do? I’d wager it’s what makes us American in the first place.

    The best thing is opportunity to succeed. And someone else hit it on the cranium. Why should a poor, black, female, who worked her butt off to get where he is at and in this example might be just as experienced as a male or majority race be held back because of his skin color and genitalia . The answer is she shouldn’t. And to do otherwise is racist and or sexist.

    Switch the roles around in that example of female to male and black to white and ask yourself the same question.

    The answer is DEI the way it’s marketed and employed is racist and sexist. It seeks to hold one group down at the expense of another.
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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I believe at the end of the year you have to prove you were on full time orders in order to be shown as eligible to receive your in arrears payment. I’m not sure if you can or can’t come off AGR into MPA or like full time status. No missed days. And I don’t believe you bounce between different bonus options and amounts. Talk to your local bonus coordinator and if he/she doesn’t know, have them ask their NGB A1 bonus rep and then report back here for everyone’s benefit.

    IE you can’t keep a full time bonus if you aren’t eligible at the end of the year

    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Trying to decipher the FY22 ANG AvB policy. If you take AGR orders, sign a 3-year AvB, and have to curtail the orders for one reason or another (but stay DSG and serve all 3 years in one capacity or another)… do you pay it all back? 
     
    4.7 Recoupment of Payment
       4.7.1.3 Member does not serve the agreed-upon period… all previous AvB payments are considered a debt and full amount recouped.
    But then it states later:
    5.2.1 Tier 1 Pilot (bonus)
    5.2.1.3 Failure to serve the full agreement duration of service under this agreement will result in full recoupment of bonus monies IAW para 4.7.
    5.2.1.4 Reduced Rate. A member on Tier 1 AvB who is no longer AGR will be subject to a reduced annual payment of $15,000 … and will remain at that reduced rate for the remaining length of their agreement. 
     
    Trying to decipher, does 4.7.1.3 only apply if you completely separate from the ANG before 3 years (not stay DSG )? Or does it mean if you don’t serve out the AGR orders you owe it all back.
    The reduced rate paragraph makes it seem like your bonus will just switch to $15K per year as a DSG until the 3-year contract is over. 

    Is the new guard reserve bonus out?

    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Indoc while on terminal leave is the answer 

    And from what I’m told any time you are finishing orders it can be considered terminal for the airlines purposes. Not sure if that’s written any where. And it just needs to be in conjunction with your orders ending. I’ve been told Delta will accept that in letter from your commander.
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