Contract talks, Facebook, "concerted action" and anonymity

TUCKnTRUCK said:
Pay yourself first, don't dip your pen in company ink, the overnight sucks, the Crew sucks, I'll grab the kids when I get home.

Do those 5 things- and life is easy.
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And if you're often upgraded to first or business class while deadheading to Timbuktu or WhereTheHelliStan to pick up a trip, keep it off social media as "Well, that's nice, I've just been here with the kids all week while you're galavanting around the world drinking champagne and Tommy pooped himself in second grade again. But I don't mind. You live your life". :)
 
MikeD said:
When a pilot says "lemme give you some investment/marriage advice, son..." Run away fast? :)
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Yes. This.


I still remember the tons of pilots trying to get me to sign on for Zeeker Rewards.

"Hey, you can join at the $100 level, $1000, or the $10,000 level. You just gotta put an ad online everyday somewhere. And every month you pay some account maintenance fee of $100 or so. The money comes because your initial investment is used to buy free bids on Zeek for their penny auction website. And then the customer pays $1/bid and the company profits daily. The potential is exponential."

Simple sniff test.......... so, why am I paying a monthly fee? And what if the customer just uses the initial free bids and then says "fark it" and never buys any bids from Zeek?

Once I got no answers to that and was told, "hush, just sign up, TRUST ME IT WORKS......................"


I ran.

Never looked back.

Except once it hit the news the federal government shut down Zeek Rewards, which was officially labeled a ponzi scheme. Ya don't say? :)
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Add relationship advice to that list.

That said, the best advice I got before I got married came from a UPS FO while I was jumpseating. But overall...

Edit: I'm not sure if I missed the "marriage" part of your post due to whiskey or if you edited it.
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"Are you sure you wanna get married? You know 50% of all marriages..................."

I'm like, I know, I know.


"Last forever"



LOL
 
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Derg said:
And if you're often upgraded to first or business class while deadheading to Timbuktu or WhereTheHelliStan to pick up a trip, keep it off social media as "Well, that's nice, I've just been here with the kids all week while you're galavanting around the world drinking champagne and Tommy pooped himself in second grade again. But I don't mind. You live your life". :)
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Never understood why people like to broadcast "I'm not Home" to the social media world.

Honestly, the less I remind her that I'm not home to help with the kids, the happier she is. Well, that, and we just put an offer on a 4900sq ft house, she's happy about that too.
 
My usual advice is "don't," but I'm the stereotypical 30-something (okay, 29) single regional pilot, so...
 
TUCKnTRUCK said:
Never understood why people like to broadcast "I'm not Home" to the social media world.

Honestly, the less I remind her that I'm not home to help with the kids, the happier she is. Well, that, and we just put an offer on a 4900sq ft house, she's happy about that too.
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Sounds like I need your job
 
MikeD said:
Emails. Social media posts.

Ask John Podesta about the security of those, if you don't believe what's being said here. :)
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Did they find HRCs emails? I know there was some issue with her deleting them. Are they found? I don't really know the details but if nothing can ever be deleted where are they? Or are the popping up in Wikileaks?
 
Screaming_Emu said:
Actually it was to always keep her as my girlfriend. All the stuff I did when we first started dating, keep doing those things.

So far so good! Celebrating 7 years this weekend!
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Kid(s)? I'd like to say we're still the same before the kid, but IMO some things just inevitably change after you have one. Time, management, sleep cycles, quiet time, date nights, etc.
 
Louie1975 said:
Did they find HRCs emails? I know there was some issue with her deleting them. Are they found? I don't really know the details but if nothing can ever be deleted where are they? Or are the popping up in Wikileaks?
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Supposedly they will be released in November, according to the interweb rumor mill. Not sure if it will be from wikileaks, I'd assume so
 
Derg said:
And if you're often upgraded to first or business class while deadheading to Timbuktu or WhereTheHelliStan to pick up a trip, keep it off social media as "Well, that's nice, I've just been here with the kids all week while you're galavanting around the world drinking champagne and Tommy pooped himself in second grade again. But I don't mind. You live your life". :)
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Why are you putting me on blast like that? :D
 
I was having lunch with a bud who was flying with a guy, who came along.

Spent the entire lunch trying to sell me on a gadget that was suppose to drop my electric bill 90% or some such nonsense. It wasn't solar, or anything even remotely explainable, but more in line with a perpetual motion machine.

Granted I'm not the hottest poker in the fire, but after six years studying engineering and chemistry, some knowledge may have rubbed off, even if inadvertently.

So I'm explaining to this guy that we obey the laws of thermodynamics on this planet, and go into detail some the issues his "device" might have.

He finally got so frustrated that not only was I not taking the bait, but calling him out on all the BS as well, he finally just said "you science people make everything so hard! You're the reason no one can get anything done!"

After lunch, I asked my bro "dude, I love ya, but why did you bring this dude to lunch?". He goes "I've had to fly with him for the last 3 days, and I wanted to see you obliterate him. Well done, BTW".

Sigh...I miss when lunch was just lunch.

Richman
 
Cptnchia said:
You know you wanted some of that Jack Utstick action!
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So I'm out drinking with the crew in Austin back in 1998 and the captain kept insisting I jumpseat down to Jacksonville to go to a concert that his buddy Jack was throwing and how I could get in on the ground floor.

When I was a freshman, I got handed a copy of "The Predatory Female" and given the advice of "Max out your 401k, never take investment advice from an airline pilot including him".
 
Still have my copy of the Predatory Female. I'm happy I got to participate in that right of passage, however jaded it is.


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Somehow I never received a copy of this book. Things might have been vastly different for me. Amway is a cult.
 
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