Why I Left an Airline Pilot Career

[BEEF SUPREME]

How much time did you spend on reserve there? Even reserve CA and reserve FO life were wildly different at that place.

I was only there a year. Mostly on reserve. Bid for time away from base to credit ratio when I did get a flying line. Things were moving fast.

Reserve at SkyWest vs Eskimo... SkyWest is the clear winner. For lots of reasons. Other than pay.


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[Autothrust Blue]

I was only there a year.

Oh.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

Oddly, the most regular computer work that I do nowadays has to do with making text files into things that can be parsed into programs that then do useful analysis upon them.

Super valuable work for people like me, though. I pay people in Pakistan to do it, though. You’re too expensive.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Super valuable work for people like me, though. I pay people in Pakistan to do it, though. You’re too expensive.

Yeah, well, as usual, screw you and your offshoring practices too, but you knew I was going to say that.

 

[web265]

But first we had to get past how I got to be a first year FO at SkyWest at 39...

Literally every trip with a Capt I've never flown with (although my "number" is a bit higher)

Not to be confused with old career changers, who were basically retired and wanted to play airline pilot for a few years. That’s a nightmare.

Sorry? Although I guess I didn't fully career change, I started after 5 years of part 91, does that help?

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

Yeah, well, as usual, screw you and your offshoring practices too, but you knew I was going to say that.

People in Pakistan need good jobs, too, you damned "America firster."

 

[Autothrust Blue]

People in Pakistan need good jobs, too, you damned "America firster."

On this one, you bet I am an America First type, proving that the President, like all broken clocks, is right twice a day.

I have more of a problem importing STEM talent than letting someone pick strawberries, but that’s another talk for another day, altogether.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

On this one, you bet I am an America First type, proving that the President, like all broken clocks, is right twice a day.

I have more of a problem importing STEM talent than letting someone pick strawberries, but that’s another talk for another day, altogether.

Yeah, we definitely disagree on this one. I feel a lot better about giving someone in a third world country a great job than I do about giving someone in the land of plenty of a good job. I have only so many jobs to go around. They do their most good in third world countries.

 

[JDean3204]

Oh.

I was only there a year.

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Longer than my stay there...

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Longer than my stay there...

“From PBS NewsHour, this is ‘Brief, But Spectacular!’”

 

[Old Pete]

Is English your second language?

And despite that, he make a damn good point.

 

[TWP]

Yeah, we definitely disagree on this one. I feel a lot better about giving someone in a third world country a great job than I do about giving someone in the land of plenty of a good job. I have only so many jobs to go around. They do their most good in third world countries.

That’s a nice convenient rationalization for selling out your own country.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

That’s a nice convenient rationalization for selling out your own country.

You're hilarious.

 

[tcco94]

Todd isn't showing his true republican colors right now

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

Todd isn't showing his true republican colors right now

Still waiting for a rational argument about why it’s morally superior to employ one American than three Mexicans... And if your answer is “‘cause ‘Murica,” then nothing could be more hillbilly Republican than that.

 

[roundout]

Still waiting for a rational argument about why it’s morally superior to employ one American than three Mexicans... And if your answer is “‘cause ‘Murica,” then nothing could be more hillbilly Republican than that.

Manifest destiny, economics edition

Edited to add: I think RUSH covered this in "territories"

 

[JordanD]

Still waiting for a rational argument about why it’s morally superior to employ one American than three Mexicans... And if your answer is “‘cause ‘Murica,” then nothing could be more hillbilly Republican than that.

I mean, I would think such a staunch union guy would have a little bit stronger of an opinion about outsourcing (probably) decent paying jobs with benefits in the US to third world labor with crappy to no labor laws/protections or benefits.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

I mean, I would think such a staunch union guy would have a little bit stronger of an opinion about outsourcing (probably) decent paying jobs with benefits in the US to third world labor with crappy to no labor laws/protections or benefits.

My employees in Mexico live upper middle class lifestyles (two are homeowners now, in fact) with full benefits packages that most Americans would drool over. Your ideas of “third world labor” sound suspiciously like “s—-hole countries” comments made by a certain orange racist.

 

[JordanD]

My employees in Mexico live upper middle class lifestyles (two are homeowners now, in fact) with full benefits packages that most Americans would drool over. Your ideas of “third world labor” sound suspiciously like “s—-hole countries” comments made by a certain orange racist.

Hah, first off, you know me at least well enough to know that comparison is not accurate... at all. Secondly, that's great, but I wonder how often that is the case, or if it's the exception to the rule. You're still ultimately benefiting from relatively cheap labor that's ultimately undercutting jobs here. It kind of reminds me of the backlash against NAI, SkyWest, GoJet, but then IMO doing something sort of similar. Is it ultimately that different than if United contracted out a bunch of Canada stuff to Jazz somehow? Or since we're going with the Trump comparisons, what are your views on companies like Carrier or auto manufacturers up and sending a bunch of their union jobs to Mexico and shuttering plants here?

 

[SteveC]

The sooner we help people in second and third world countries make living wages, the better for everyone.