Swayne coming to a 121 near you

Skåning said:
Just my opinion but I don't like how they trivialize the profession to the general public. On here we can be deprecating and BS about things, but that shouldn't be how our efforts and experience are projected to the public. "Social media influencer" is analogous to attention *hooker*.
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I understand that, and honestly agree with that as well. But the times really are changing, seems that the ones making moves are the ones doing such. Just my observation, I’ve also diluted my online presence drastically recently so I could also be out of touch as well

A few months back I reached out to the guy that runs the podcast Garret was on, because his platform does really give pilots from all over the spectrum a chance to explain how they got where they are. Never heard back though, guess I had a few too many roadblocks for his comfort level in interviewing :)

So James, tell us how you were arrested and recovered from that, tell us how you managed to wreck a perfectly good airplane and recovered, tell us how you managed to get fired from your first 121 airline and recovered. Then again, I probably wouldn’t want to interview myself either :0
 
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JDean3204 said:
I understand that, and honestly agree with that as well. But the times really are changing, seems that the ones making moves are the ones doing such. Just my observation, I’ve also diluted my online presence drastically recently so I could also be out of touch as well
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I dunno, I consider myself pretty tuned in to what is popular and try to give the new generation the benefit of the doubt because it's "their time". However, I still don't think "influencers" really are the cash cows they lead people to believe they are. Captain ED guy only has 500k followers on instagram, there are 130 million people on instagram that have over a million followers. He ain't special. Oh and its super easy to buy followers.

Take a look at this new doc on Netflix

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Watch The Social Dilemma | Netflix Official Site

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
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Skåning said:
I dunno, I consider myself pretty tuned in to what is popular and try to give the new generation the benefit of the doubt because it's "their time". However, I still don't think "influencers" really are the cash cows they lead people to believe they are. Captain ED guy only has 500k followers on instagram, there are 130 million people on instagram that have over a million followers. He ain't special. Oh and its super easy to buy followers.

Take a look at this new doc on Netflix

www.netflix.com

Watch The Social Dilemma | Netflix Official Site

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
www.netflix.com www.netflix.com
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I watched that, and to be honest that plus the political turmoil was my main reason to dump social media, aside from JC of course because I love this group. Social media is truly a fine line, one that is in the process of getting pushed to points that us as humans haven’t been able to digest in terms of consumption or influence yet. But... and that’s a capitol B on the But.... Swayne is doing nothing wrong, his bold method is a great source, tho scorned by the general inter web public. That happens everywhere tho, when you’re talking smack online you’re not worried about getting beat down, case in point every FB post I seen last year. If half of those people talked to me the way they talk online, we would have issues and maybe even come to fist a cuffs. But online gives the general coward that artificial back bone to bone up and talk in ways they wouldn’t to another persons face, and that is now universal in all platforms regarding all subjects. I’ve been a UFC fan ever since my dad let me watch the VHS of Gracie winning the first tourney. Those dudes are bonafied fighters, yet Joe blow from Sugarville Arkansas can call him a puss or a bum, because there is no consequence of that.

I do agree the other guy, Garret probably could have done without the shirtless pics and boner pill advertisements.

I’m looking into a flip phone again, if it wasn’t for all the resources I use for work on this smart phone it would already be done. But maybe I’m overreacting
 
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Skåning said:
We're talking about two different guys.
PSA guy (Moon) made dancing videos and got canned, after being warned a many time apparently.

Piedmont guy (eggplant emoji) has not, but made an ass of himself by making a youtube video of him critiquing the UA 777 crew
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I was talking about Garrett.
 
What's with the TravelPro ad in the middle of the video? I wonder if they gave him a free suitcase or something. I don't know if they are doing it anymore but new hires at UPS had to spend a day during indoc working as a package car drivers helper. I'm so old I missed out on that.
 
DE727UPS said:
What's with the TravelPro ad in the middle of the video? I wonder if they gave him a free suitcase or something. I don't know if they are doing it anymore but new hires at UPS had to spend a day during indoc working as a package car drivers helper. I'm so old I missed out on that.
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They still did it as of 2.5 years ago, my buddy got to do it. As for the travelpro ad... makin content ain't free, yknow!
 
DE727UPS said:
What's with the TravelPro ad in the middle of the video? I wonder if they gave him a free suitcase or something. I don't know if they are doing it anymore but new hires at UPS had to spend a day during indoc working as a package car drivers helper. I'm so old I missed out on that.
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Reminds me of Up In The Air with George Clooney,which was basically a 90 minute ad for American


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