Slam Click Excuse?
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surreal1221
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Derg said:
Generational shift, it has begun.
You'll be that old codger before you know it.
#OldCodgerHipster
How do you figure I'm a hipster?
Old codger yes, but the coolest old codger you know and probably cooler than you!
Polar742
All the responsibility none of the authority
You're effin' old dude. On the upside, you probably don't worry near as much if you'll have a job in 5 or 10 years either....
Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm at work, the Southeast Regional Shuffleboard Finals, a cruise terminal or an AARP lobbying event...
Cav
Former Maddog Whisperer
Especially now! You don't go out anymore anyway. You just hang out at the hotel bar in AMS.
Minuteman
I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING!
Old codger yes, but the coolest old codger you know and probably cooler than you!
Dargl Toyg trucks with the puka shell bracelets.
Cav
Former Maddog Whisperer
That place is terrible. Complete with airline themed license plates.
Minuteman
I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING!
Is it true that's called "Pier 39" there as well?
drunkenbeagle
Gang Member
That be my corner! I cut you! What you be doin' in my turf?
And there aren't many underpasses near AMS...
There's the tunnel and the one by our ghetto hotel. Down the road from Buick-something-or-rather across the moat from Centraal.
///AMG
Well-Known Member
Some of you guys haven't been part of a ready room before. Common courtesy is a "quick turn"......hit the hotel, 5 minute turn into clothes/shower/aftershave/manscaping, and then you are out on the town. You make a quick 2 minute call home and send them love and promise to call/text later because you have to run to dinner. Risk your life as a team, you also go out on the town as a team. Whether that be a family of 16 or a crew of half that. You invite the A holes too, because when you start excluding the unpopular, a fault line develops professionally. Learn to love them too.
Ok so I'm not an airline guy, and I have no idea how that works. But that is the standard I am used to. I'd guess your salty old ex Navy captain expects the same. I'm talking completely out of my butt here, and mostly kidding (although the above description isn't fictional in my life), but seriously......you are visiting a city, away from home.......I'd go out and have a good time, provided that crew rest isn't violated. Part of being a team is learning to spend lots of time with the people who you wouldn't normally associate with IMHO.
Ok so I'm not an airline guy, and I have no idea how that works. But that is the standard I am used to. I'd guess your salty old ex Navy captain expects the same. I'm talking completely out of my butt here, and mostly kidding (although the above description isn't fictional in my life), but seriously......you are visiting a city, away from home.......I'd go out and have a good time, provided that crew rest isn't violated. Part of being a team is learning to spend lots of time with the people who you wouldn't normally associate with IMHO.
dasleben
That's just, like, your opinion, man
Do we have to call them by their old callsigns, too?
Just kidding...wait, I'm not kidding. I've run into guys who still go by them in the civilian world.I don't invite the a-holes. They get to drink alone.
Screaming_Emu
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Besides...shirtless volleyball is pretty boring by yourself. Nobody to oil you down.
drunkenbeagle
Gang Member
I spend a lot of time on the road, non-airline. Unless it is a real • that I can't stand, I go out of my way to have dinner or drinks with whoever I am working with on the road. Common courtesy, they can always say no.
People can be much easier to deal with when you talk to them outside of "work mode." The worst a-holes generally don't drink btw - at least what I have seen in the last 15 years at crappy crew hotels in the middle of no where (my company somehow finds the same dives). I generally suspect they are the closet drunks with serious problems...
///AMG
Well-Known Member
Do we have to call them by their old callsigns, too?
That's pathetic.......trust me, after I'm done and gone, I don't want anyone calling me my weird and un-intentionally racially offensive acronym of a callsign. That said, I do think there are some "team building" (I know I know that's lame) habits associated with eating/sleeping/breathing/flying with a family of 16 that are still salient in the civilian world. Maybe I'm wrong. But I'd like to like the people I work with, wherever that be, rather than being a loner in a hotel room.