Yeah I don't know man. To each their own, I guess. I truly don't let it bother me and I tend to judge others on their own merits rather than what a news channel or coworker leads me to believe based on their preconceived notions.

If someone is wearing a pronoun pin, then cool, good for them. I may mess it up and call them the wrong thing, but not on purpose. I'm in my late 40s and it's hard to change at this point, but I am trying to adapt so that I am not the old man screaming at clouds.

Anyone in this business who is "at work" and saying the wrong thing at the bar is an idiot. There is a reason that I rarely "come down" and rather try to peel my coworker off and do something else if I deem them worthy of my time. If you are at the bar in a crew hotel, you are at work. Period. Flight attendants and their write up culture have no place in my life. The days of resolving things person to person via an apology and a handshake are over. Honestly, I would rather spend time with my dog, but I can't bring her to work with me (yet).

I guess I just don't let it bother me, but that's cool if you want to let it. Anti wokeness is a favorite topic of the outrage media and politicians who don't have a real platform to run on. I could care less.

Agree 100%. I flew corporate for a big discount retailer that is well known for being extremely conservative. They were trying to build stores in big cities, so they sponsored a pride parade. That made some Christian organization mad, and they threatened a national boycot. So, we jumped in the airplane and flew down to their headquarters in Tupelo, Mississippi so the execs could smooth things over (most likely with a sizable donation). When they were done, they hopped back in the jet and we went directly to the big city where the same executive glad handed with politicians and organizers of the parade. What I learned is that businesses that want to grow in a variety of regions with diverse demographics have to support both the potential customers and potential employees in those regions. It’s a delicate balancing act to try and be supportive of one without alienating the other. They can’t be apolitical because if they want to grow in (insert market here) they’ll be pressed by politicians in that market to demonstrate that they fit in as a business in that community.

I’m pretty politically moderate and even I don’t read those emails. Just let it roll off your back and talk more about gliders and bbq and whatnot. At work avoid talking about politics, religion, and hot button topics and it can still be a fun job. But geez, don’t let yourself get fired or lose a medical over it!

I don’t hang around that work group either. I hope we succeed in splitting off to separate hotels. It’s not that I don’t like them and don’t want to hang out with them. it’s that it isn’t worth gambling my career on the chance that I say the wrong thing over a basket of wings a Diet Coke.

Maybe Newhire was at the bar with his old military layover name tag: "Dick Gozinya" or "Phil McCracken" .....like when we used to have a SENSE OF HUMOR!

Exactly!!! 👏 👏

And yet here y’all are (again) giving four diddly squats about the fact someone else is giving two diddly squats about something you profess to give no diddly squats about…
So much easier to ignore the stuff that’s not your cup of tea. I actually had no idea we have a VP of Diversity other than you guys rabbling about it all the time. They haven’t caused me any reroutes or JAs that I know of, so I guess I really just…don’t care.

Bravo!


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And yet ... Here you are. Blathering on about it also.

What everyone is saying here, is that they have picked a side. Every one of you.

Amen. The majority of mainstream media today is nothing more than divisive, bias confirming "info"tainment. At best.

Great post!

That's more or less what we used to do around here.

Back in the day, company correspondence (Luv Lines etc.) would often highlight various departments, explaining what they do and how they contribute to making the operation, run, which was like a swiss watch the vast majority of the time.

Like now, there was plenty of "diversity" amongst the employees, but that was never mentioned, because we were all just PEOPLE working towards a common goal, which was to make SWA as profitable as possible.