Another pilot shot in MEM
03-01-2023, 02:16 PM
#31
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Originally Posted by Merle Haggard
Actually it's both.
03-01-2023, 02:43 PM
#32
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I could never imagine my kids growing up anywhere near Memphis. The suburbs are fine but eventually they’re going to be older and to want to drive into the city. The same city where there are no “good neighborhoods”. Memphis isn’t like other cities where there’s pockets of crime. There are over 170 gangs in Memphis and they’re EVERYWHERE. You or 16 year old kids cut off the wrong car on accident and you could find out the hard way in the form of a barrage of bullets. No, that’s not hyperbole. There’s a reason 70% of FedEx pilots commute.
03-01-2023, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by JackStraw
I could never imagine my kids growing up anywhere near Memphis. The suburbs are fine but eventually they’re going to be older and to want to drive into the city. The same city where there are no “good neighborhoods”. Memphis isn’t like other cities where there’s pockets of crime. There are over 170 gangs in Memphis and they’re EVERYWHERE. You or 16 year old kids cut off the wrong car on accident and you could find out the hard way in the form of a barrage of bullets. No, that’s not hyperbole. There’s a reason 70% of FedEx pilots commute.
03-01-2023, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Globemaster2827
Great. It really works out for me. I can't imagine my kids growing up in most of the places yall live either... With crazy taxes, horrible weather, insane costs of living, crime scenes that are just as bad on the wrong side of town, taking the dock in pay for waiting to upgrade until I can hold that double dead head that works me to exhaustion twice a month and most importantly me never being home to raise them. I guess I'll just have to explain to my 16 year old not to take the car cruising through Orange Mound to hang out with all the street gangs and FedEx commuters to avoid getting shot. Then again I grew up in Dallas and was smart enough to not go driving around South Oak Cliff for fun, so I've got some experience with what to tell them and I'll at least be home to explain things they need help with...
This particular shooting wasn’t in orange mound. It was in Sherwood Forest. Only two blocks from the University of Memphis campus.
I can’t say for sure where the other Memphis FedEx pilot was driving when he got shot..
03-01-2023, 03:08 PM
#36
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Who cares. If you wanna live in memphis area go for it. If you wanna commute from Columbia. More power to ya. If you wanna live in a van down by the river….well…that’s up to you. I commute. I don’t wanna live in memphis but I am jealous of the locals commute. I think it makes some people feel better about the jumpseat lounge drool session to bag on memphis even if Memphis has a lot to bag on.
03-01-2023, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Jamo
11. Only airline to require a detailed doctors (list symptoms/treatment/whatever they ask for) note to see if management agrees it is worth using your sick time for. If they don’t, then no pay for you. Every doctor I have requested this from looks at me like I’m asking them to remove my liver.
03-01-2023, 04:08 PM
#38
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Originally Posted by Globemaster2827
I think of posts just like this when I'm getting in my car to drive home to my huge house in the suburbs to spend the next 3.5 weeks at home on reserve with my family and I see yall headed to the jumpseat room at midnight to spend 4 hours playing on your phone while hoping your 2 hour flight doesn't delay so you can get home for (almost) 2 days off before you have to commute back to work...
Hahaha I take the afternoon Jumpseat to Mobile about 50 minutes and the drive another 30 minutes to my home by the water. Hope you enjoy my hometown of Memphis but even this hometown guy left. I don’t have to gear up to simply go to town or drive to work everyday.
03-01-2023, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by JackStraw
I could never imagine my kids growing up anywhere near Memphis. The suburbs are fine but eventually they’re going to be older and to want to drive into the city. The same city where there are no “good neighborhoods”. Memphis isn’t like other cities where there’s pockets of crime. There are over 170 gangs in Memphis and they’re EVERYWHERE. You or 16 year old kids cut off the wrong car on accident and you could find out the hard way in the form of a barrage of bullets. No, that’s not hyperbole. There’s a reason 70% of FedEx pilots commute.
Wow! How scientific! I am so impressed!
(“That’s not hyperbole” “ Things that Tucker Carlson would say for $100, Alex”)
03-02-2023, 04:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Globemaster2827
I think of posts just like this when I'm getting in my car to drive home to my huge house in the suburbs to spend the next 3.5 weeks at home on reserve with my family and I see yall headed to the jumpseat room at midnight to spend 4 hours playing on your phone while hoping your 2 hour flight doesn't delay so you can get home for (almost) 2 days off before you have to commute back to work...
You do know that we've all spent a lot of time there and that every one of us has always had the option to move there right?
I've worked at several airlines where no pilots were shot. Outliers I guess. We're now to 1/3000 at FDX (1/2000 if we count the pilot shot in IND) That number will certainly go up at some point. When you figure out how to get from your "huge house" to the airport at 3 am without running the gauntlet please pass your secret on to the rest of us.
In the meantime, let's just add this particular job hazard to the reasons we need to be PAID NOW!
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