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Old 01-05-2017, 06:39 PM
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It is just crazy how this whole recruiting process has morphed into being forced to attend these three organizations pay to play hiring fairs. If you are not female, black or gay it is ludacris that you'd have to attend one of these job fairs. These organizations no longer represent their black, female or gay members. They have simply become massive dollar printing machines.
You clearly have no idea the amount of good work that OBAP and WIA do (can't speak for NGPA). Massive dollar printing machines? Tell that to the thousands of kids (not all of them minorities, by the way) who have benefited fron the FREE Aviation Career Education camps. Myself included. Or, the hundreds (again, not all minorities) who have had their lives changed by scholarships for everything from college to a CFI rating to a 737 type rating.

You don't agree with the system, fine, but calling them "money printing machines" that no longer represent their members is just flat out wrong.

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I don't think anyone would disagree with the premise that ALL should get a fair shot. To do otherwise would be disingenuous.
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You clearly have no idea the amount of good work that OBAP and WIA do (can't speak for NGPA). Massive dollar printing machines? Tell that to the thousands of kids (not all of them minorities, by the way) who have benefited fron the FREE Aviation Career Education camps. Myself included. Or, the hundreds (again, not all minorities) who have had their lives changed by scholarships for everything from college to a CFI rating to a 737 type rating.

You don't agree with the system, fine, but calling them "money printing machines" that no longer represent their members is just flat out wrong.

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Having to funnel cash through a special interest group to get an interview is BS! Period!
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Having to funnel cash through a special interest group to get an interview is BS! Period!
Exactly right!!!!
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Originally Posted by Airhoss View Post
Having to funnel cash through a special interest group to get an interview is BS! Period!
Do you "back the PAC"?
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Having to funnel cash through a special interest group to get an interview is BS! Period!
Can you go if you're not gay? How else would one get an interview if they didn't go?
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Having to funnel cash through a special interest group to get an interview is BS! Period!
Except that you don't have to. You're supporting an organization that is giving you the opportunity to network. Don't like women, black people, or gay people? Fine, feel free to create your own networking opportunities. Plenty of people have managed to get on via that route as well.

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Except that you don't have to. You're supporting an organization that is giving you the opportunity to network. Don't like women, black people, or gay people? Fine, feel free to create your own networking opportunities. Plenty of people have managed to get on via that route as well.

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Once again it has nothing to do with liking or not liking anybody. However it gives simpltons like yourself the precived moral high ground and the emotional ability to pull the race/sexist/homophobic card at will.

Really? You just had to go there, because you've got nothing else maybe?
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Once again it has nothing to do with liking or not liking anybody. However it gives simpltons like yourself the precived moral high ground and the emotional ability to pull the race/sexist/homophobic card at will.

Really? You just had to go there, because you've got nothing else maybe?
Hoss you seem pretty upset that minorities and gays are allowed to hold a conference.
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Hoss you seem pretty upset that minorities and gays are allowed to hold a conference.
He just said it has nothing to do with that.
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