DAYUM SWA!

[tlove482]

You're not wrong, it's just disappointing. Even what appears to be one of the pilots showed up to try and figure out how to fix it. But we're obviously talking past each other on this one, so I bid you adieu since it's late here on the east coast. But I'll tell you that the guilt of questioning what you could have done is most often worse than second guessing what you did do.

Arff should be the one to deal with it.

 

[DPApilot]

Agreed. We still have people that kill the APU the second ground power comes up and it instantly starts roasting the cabin. Then they zip off with first class and the plane just sits there and bakes like Tommy Chong. But they'd be the first ones, as non revs, bitching on facebook about the cabin temperature.

Cough, cough. Rose!

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

Most, if not all, bulletins fill me with LOLZ these days.

I had to tell one youngin’, who was making a lot of work for himself trying to do everyone else’s job “look man, you’re gunna burn yourself out, and become a bitter old dude at 35. Don’t be ‘that guy’”

Most of us are driven people who are problem solvers at heart. It’s hard to just sit back and watch the chaos ensue. You’re right, though. We don’t create these situations, and can’t fix them.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Lolz at our triggered pilots when @BEEF SUPREME called out this behavior

I stopped posting to our internal forum. What a cesspool. My last recommendation was (gasp) riding a bike occasionally to get some aerobic fitness, rather than finding a doc willing to let high blood pressure slide for a first class…

You’d would have thought that I peed in their Cheerios.


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[DE727UPS]

Internal forums are a hoot. Brown is like that. I used to be a mod but we never did anything. I'm still a heavy user cause I just can't stop but mostly lurk now. But I'd estimate 10 to 15% of the pilot group participates cause it can be such a wasteland. Every now and then you pick up something operationally that's useful or helpful. When talking to pilots about the forum over the years, I'd say for every guy who participated there was one who was strongly negative about the place.

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

Internal forums are a hoot. Brown is like that. I used to be a mod but we never did anything. I'm still a heavy user cause I just can't stop but mostly lurk now. But I'd estimate 10 to 15% of the pilot group participates cause it can be such a wasteland. Every now and then you pick up something operationally that's useful or helpful. When talking to pilots about the forum over the years, I'd say for every guy who participated there was one who was strongly negative about the place.

We just had a black lesbian female pilot become a base chief. Heads are exploding. I love watching the meltdown happen. People with their real names and seniority numbers posting stuff that will get them fired in an instant is a hoot. Why would you think this is a safe space?

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Internal forums are a hoot. Brown is like that. I used to be a mod but we never did anything. I'm still a heavy user cause I just can't stop but mostly lurk now. But I'd estimate 10 to 15% of the pilot group participates cause it can be such a wasteland. Every now and then you pick up something operationally that's useful or helpful. When talking to pilots about the forum over the years, I'd say for every guy who participated there was one who was strongly negative about the place.

The only reason I check in is I occasionally find some gem about using positive space passes or a good place to eat on the road.


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[Richman]

Internal forums are a hoot. Brown is like that. I used to be a mod but we never did anything. I'm still a heavy user cause I just can't stop but mostly lurk now. But I'd estimate 10 to 15% of the pilot group participates cause it can be such a wasteland. Every now and then you pick up something operationally that's useful or helpful. When talking to pilots about the forum over the years, I'd say for every guy who participated there was one who was strongly negative about the place.

You're on to something here...and it's not just airlines/aviation, but all kinds of social media.

There is some percentage of posters that are just good people. Posting good info, asking good questions, sharing meaningful and/or informative experiences. There can be some jerks in this bunch, but typically they provide worthwhile information or commentary.

Then you have the people who rarely interact. I know it's hard to understand in this age of texts and emails, but a very substantial part of the population does not like to write. At. All. They come in, they lurk, but they simply won't interact because writing is a huge chore. I feel like, but cannot prove, that this population is diminishing over time simply because of the pervasiveness of written communications these days.

A different group is NOT related to the last group that comes in and lurks because they don't like to interact. Completely separate mechanism. They don't like conflict, they don't like the stronger personalities, or whatever. They come, they surf, they might post looking for information on a very specific subject, then they vanish.

Then there are the narcissists, whose name is legion. Everything is about them, even if they deny it. Everything they do is holy and right, everything anyone else does is crap, even if it actually aligns with their goals. Their way or the highway. Every business transaction with them is an immediate grudge match, and that goes for any kind of personal interaction. They're always trying to establish alpha, and that means peeing on every thread and posting. They drive a significant percentage of participants away simply because they are so toxic and life is too short to deal with their BS. The only one's that can put up with their BS are other narcissists, and thus you begin the downward death spiral of any forum.

The real damage is caused by these people, because they make out whatever it is that they are doing as the one and only way, and even if that's the case, they'll never, ever admit it was because their experience is an outlier. Luck, rich relative, fortunate patron, whatever...no, it was all about them and their leet skilz.

I've watch this play out several times over several types of forums, and decent individuals who are only looking for some unbiased information get sucked into these people's orbit. They listen to these people and make significant life and financial decisions based on it. Yes, we all know you should take everything online with several salt licks worth of salt, but that's not what really happens. People get the wrong idea on how hard and or unlikely someone else's good deal was, and never ever stop to consider that it was a significant outlier, assuming it happened at all.

Everyone is an ace investor on line. Everyone can beat the market. Nothing to it.

And everyone above is just being themselves. I'm not even talking about the people who use the forums to plant false flags, have some kind agenda, looking to protect their good deal, and/or spread similar chaff, either singularly or through some coordinated effort.

 

[derg]

Cough, cough. Rose!

Who cheated on who?!

 

[Toobdrvr]

I think at the sight of the smoke (prolly accompanied by noise, flashes, and, um irregularities), I would’ve just turned around and said “Errbody OUT!” And then followed them up the jetway, and watched the rest of the show from the terminal…