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01-26-2022 | 12:25 PM
#331
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Since anything beats studying my NEO start limitations, I'll waste some bandwidth too.
Medically grounded, "teaching" Recurrent and Basic Indoc when Jacob buys the airline from Ned. Literally, my first day of teaching Basic Indoc, Jacob (I figure out who he is somehow) comes in late and sits in the back row. PowerPoint had just been invented, and I was the Master of PowerPoint - if we could steal the only computer projector from Marketing, which I did. Any reference to Crew Scheduling was "Screw Sked" and other ha ha funnies like McDonald's Douglas. So I get invited to Jacobs office at 5pm that day. I'm thinking "maybe I can get fired from Kalitta teaching bad ground school" when Jacob just says I'll be in his office teaching Basic Indoc personally every day at 5pm so he can get his 121 Type in the DC-9 to go with his Citation Type.
He really wanted to be on the Seniority List and be one of the "Line Slime" who happened to own the airline, but ALPA wasn't having it, and I think it hurt his feelings.
Anyway, every single recurrent he would come in and take questions from the class for 30 minutes. My entire point is, 25 of those minutes were guys suggesting new routes. 90% of which were either the guys hometown, or a station that would make their life more commutable. No talk about quarters of profitability until we can go public, how this new automated OOOI thing was going to work, why is SOCC set-up like the war room from Dr. Strangelove (with all the same characters), just new station suggestions.
So my suggestion to Sandi for applicants is stop asking "Why Spirit?" and start asking the real life meat and potatoes: "What's our next station and why?"
Please don't let the thread drift by bringing up the topless pool parties on Las Olas either. I'm not taking my top off for just a buck
for anyone anymore. I have my dignity.
Medically grounded, "teaching" Recurrent and Basic Indoc when Jacob buys the airline from Ned. Literally, my first day of teaching Basic Indoc, Jacob (I figure out who he is somehow) comes in late and sits in the back row. PowerPoint had just been invented, and I was the Master of PowerPoint - if we could steal the only computer projector from Marketing, which I did. Any reference to Crew Scheduling was "Screw Sked" and other ha ha funnies like McDonald's Douglas. So I get invited to Jacobs office at 5pm that day. I'm thinking "maybe I can get fired from Kalitta teaching bad ground school" when Jacob just says I'll be in his office teaching Basic Indoc personally every day at 5pm so he can get his 121 Type in the DC-9 to go with his Citation Type.
He really wanted to be on the Seniority List and be one of the "Line Slime" who happened to own the airline, but ALPA wasn't having it, and I think it hurt his feelings.
Anyway, every single recurrent he would come in and take questions from the class for 30 minutes. My entire point is, 25 of those minutes were guys suggesting new routes. 90% of which were either the guys hometown, or a station that would make their life more commutable. No talk about quarters of profitability until we can go public, how this new automated OOOI thing was going to work, why is SOCC set-up like the war room from Dr. Strangelove (with all the same characters), just new station suggestions.
So my suggestion to Sandi for applicants is stop asking "Why Spirit?" and start asking the real life meat and potatoes: "What's our next station and why?"
Please don't let the thread drift by bringing up the topless pool parties on Las Olas either. I'm not taking my top off for just a buck
for anyone anymore. I have my dignity.
01-27-2022 | 05:29 AM
#332
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01-27-2022 | 11:53 AM
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I hate studying, so I work on the cars, house, and yard to pretend I'm productive then hit myself on the head with my Estwing for posting here.
Anyway, the Director of Training cons me into taking MBA night classes in Airline Stuff. I'm sitting in the mock-up room at lunch reading Airline Labor Relations, and in walks Jacob giving a tour of our facility to Fang. Yes, Bob Crandall. He hadn't even had time to repack his Golden Parachute and I'm meeting the guy. I show him my textbook and and self aggrandize myself as much as is plausible. I'm too stupid to have him sign it.
He told me the secret of airline route selection and few, if any of you guys are even close to the right answer.So, I'm giving away the equation:
Chicken Bones + Voodoo = New City
Maybe the Ball Peen will be more effective at shutting me up.
Oh yeah, Shout out to Airsense for the Quizlet stuff. Gives me something to calm the nerves sitting in the sim parking lot waiting for someone to open the door because I can't remember the darn code.
Anyway, the Director of Training cons me into taking MBA night classes in Airline Stuff. I'm sitting in the mock-up room at lunch reading Airline Labor Relations, and in walks Jacob giving a tour of our facility to Fang. Yes, Bob Crandall. He hadn't even had time to repack his Golden Parachute and I'm meeting the guy. I show him my textbook and and self aggrandize myself as much as is plausible. I'm too stupid to have him sign it.
He told me the secret of airline route selection and few, if any of you guys are even close to the right answer.So, I'm giving away the equation:
Chicken Bones + Voodoo = New City
Maybe the Ball Peen will be more effective at shutting me up.
Oh yeah, Shout out to Airsense for the Quizlet stuff. Gives me something to calm the nerves sitting in the sim parking lot waiting for someone to open the door because I can't remember the darn code.
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