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DE727UPS said:
Personally, outside of driving, I can see no good use for those things and they look silly. Plus, you look silly talking to yourself.

Gawd I'm getting old....
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LOL . . . just leave yours in the car, Don!:p

You only look silly to people that don't what an an earpiece is . . . lol. If they can't figure out that I'm talking on the phone, by virtue of the fact that I have a BT earpiece in (not like it's a brand-new technology!!!), then they're the ones that look silly!!!

:)
 
If anyone is looking for a bluetooth headset (Cingular), let me know. I've got one (still in its packaging) - special JC discount. :)
 
Seggy said:
rip the next pilots ear off if I see them walking around the terminal with a bluetooth in their ear. I think its pretty darn unprofessional. Like it or not we are there in the terminal to answer passengers questions (yes, yes, yes it is VERY annoying, but still I see it as part of the job!) and having that bluetooth just makes you look stupid!

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Sorry if I offend anyone here!
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I used to wear it for about a week until I saw myself in the mirror and saw how silly it looked when I saw another pilot with one.

Now I only use it when I'm working on the computer on the road when I'm on the telephone or using Skype.

But I don't use Skype that often at all.
 
Seggy, we have our heads in the same bag when it comes to those damn Bluetooth headsets. I pray God those things are a trend that will pass quickly. I'll never own one. Ever. If I want to run around looking like Lobot from The Empire Strikes Back, I'll go to a Star Wars convention.

For those unfamiliar with Lobot, allow me to forever ruin the "technocool" mystique of glowing blue plastic things on your ears:


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I'm so un-hip I had no idea what a 'Blue-Tooth' was until I had to make these two trips to EWR/LGA. I've seen GOBS of people talking to themselves with funny-looking black things with blue lights affixed to their ears and they just look silly.

Pick up the phone and talk.


Speaking of phones, I was on 57th street across from the flagship Tiffany store talking to Bill, and not once but TWICE someone came up to me and asked for directions. I must have looked like a New Yorker.
 
MQAAord said:
Speaking of phones, I was on 57th street across from the flagship Tiffany store talking to Bill, and not once but TWICE someone came up to me and asked for directions. I must have looked like a New Yorker.
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Why do you say that, did you flip them off, or tell them to go take a flying leap? :) Apparently, you looked like a NICE New Yorker, since most people know not to ask directions up there...at least not to strangers on the streets. That's what I lived by every time I went there, anyways. :)
 
MQAAord said:
I'm so un-hip I had no idea what a 'Blue-Tooth' was until I had to make these two trips to EWR/LGA. I've seen GOBS of people talking to themselves with funny-looking black things with blue lights affixed to their ears and they just look silly.

Pick up the phone and talk.


Speaking of phones, I was on 57th street across from the flagship Tiffany store talking to Bill, and not once but TWICE someone came up to me and asked for directions. I must have looked like a New Yorker.
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PRECICELY. They're not cool looking, they're just goofy-looking. Not for me.

I made the mistake of accompanying my girlfriend to an interview with Macy's on 42nd, after a day trip. Still in uniform. Never again! I must have been asked for directions to a thousand different places. I finally took refuge in a coffee shop next to the Macy's building. That was my indoctrination on why it sucks to be in uniform in public, and what a doozy! Manhattan! Fugghetaboutit.
 
Yeah, I hated going anywhere in uniform. I was just a target for questions.

As for people asking for directions, I just told them politely I wasn't from here and had no idea where [insert store name] was. No flipping anyone off :) My only real issue here has been communicating with the car service when I have had to call for a car. The first guy I talked to had such a heavy NY accent I had trouble understanding him, but if I really concentrated I was okay. But the lady I talked to when I called for a pick up this afternoon I actually had to tell her twice that I had no idea what she had just said. She rattled off something so fast and so jumbled it sounded like Spanish, and I couldn't make heads nor tails of it.
 
You know, I think New Yorkers have an underserved reputation for rudeness. All the ones I've spoke with are really laid back, helpful, and above all they knew what the hell they were doing. If anything, they're just in a hurry. No time to suffer fools. The only truly rude ones I've met weren't from NY at all; they were New Jerseyans. And this makes sense, if you've ever compared Manhattan to Newark.
 
wheelsup said:
New Jersey is the armpit of the nation...I'm glad I'm outta that place.
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Within about 20 miles of Newark, you're right. It all sucks. I think that's why the people are so ####ty: they live in a giant cesspool and dress like it's 1985. I'm glad I'm out in the farmland. Hoboken is hella fun, but sooo damned expensive.
 
I livedoken in Hoboken right on Washington St. between 4th and 5th for a year and a half......What a great time!!! I love that town
 
Seggy said:
rip the next pilots ear off if I see them walking around the terminal with a bluetooth in their ear. I think its pretty darn unprofessional. Like it or not we are there in the terminal to answer passengers questions (yes, yes, yes it is VERY annoying, but still I see it as part of the job!) and having that bluetooth just makes you look stupid!

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Sorry if I offend anyone here!
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I don't think it is unprofessional to use your cell phone in the terminal. Especially if you are calling the family or work. After all, pilots have lives too. As far as the blue tooth, I generally only use mine in the car.

Pilots are not a walking information center. The airline employes CSR to help pax with questions. Most of the time I was able to answer the question within a few seconds of just looking at the signs in the airport. I don't know why the pax can't open their eyes and just read.

I just enjoy the pax that get pissed when I am pulling a release and tell them that I am just the pilot can't help them with their ticket. :sarcasm:
 
I help everyone I can, all the time. If someone looks lost, I stop and help out. If granny needs help with her bags or can't find the gate, I make sure she's sorted out. If Soccer Mom is worried about her connect, I take the two minutes to read her ticket, lok at the delay, and give her viable options. I know it's not my job, but that's not the point. I do it because it makes me feel good, and because it improves the public opinion of our industry.

Let's face it, people hate the airport because it's a big, stressful, confusing, frustrating mess. Thanks to movies and TV, they think pilots are bumbling philandering alcoholics (Yeah, I know, we are. But still, I can fake the funk on the nasty dunk can't I?). So if I can kill three birds with one stone, namely, making one or two persons trips more comfortable or less stressful, improving thier opinion of our profession, and getting a little karmic buzz on the side, then what's the harm? We all win!

I have a dark side to all this-- it's making the gate agents look bad. I hate gate agents. They are the spawn of Satan. If I can get a whole planeload of people to love me and hate them, then I am happy. Anyone who has had to commute understands this.

There is a special level of hell reserved for thieves, liars, Scientologists, and gate agents.
 
Bandit_Driver said:
I just enjoy the pax that get pissed when I am pulling a release and tell them that I am just the pilot can't help them with their ticket. :sarcasm:
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I went up to ask a gate agent the jetway door code to the ramp this morning in Knoxville only to find out she had gone downstairs to ops for something. So I was waiting for her to let me back down the jetway when a passenger came up to me and said "So are you going to board us now or what?". Then she seemed upset when I explained that I was the pilot (would have thought it was obvious by the uniform but I know better), and she would have to wait for the gate agent.
 
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