Thread: HAL vs UA
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Old 05-20-2022 | 08:26 AM
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Andy
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Originally Posted by VamosALaPlaya
You mean the full blown, unleashed wokeness by Kirby, taking hard core stances, aiming to hire half of new pilots purely based on race, sex and national origin, and not the most qualified? Yup, you made the right decision. Excellent company culture.

You must be one of those millennial types that are a bundle of joy to fly with.
You nailed it. When the flight deck door closes (NOT cockpit - that's sexist), I go full blown ooff on my FOs and lecture them about how important CRT and LGBTQXYZ+++ stuff is. And if it's a white dude halfwinger, I tell him he's paying for everything on this trip because he owes me.

Now, let's get real. Just about every company is doing the woke thing right now because they face a lot of pressure from left wingnuts (paging ooff). United has played along with all of that because someone in marketing said it's good business. I don't know and I don't care. I'm in the cockpit with the FO during almost all of my time in uniform. Mostly halfwingers because I fly fifi in a very junior coastal base. They're all very good; it's the rare exception that I have someone who's only average. And ironically, almost all of them are white males. The few females and minorities that I fly with are excellent pilots and are every bit as (or more) qualified as the usual white guy FO.

I understand your complaint about the company's wokeness but it's not something that dominates the culture.
I understand your persecution complex because you're a white guy but all one needs to do is look at newhire class photos and realize that they look like loaves of wonder bread.

All the best to you in your career; try to downsize that chip on your shoulder.

SD3FR8DOG, sorry for jumping on your thread. No matter what you decide to do, you can't go wrong. All the best.
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