CoffeeIcePapers
Well-Hung Member
I’ll believe that when I see it.
Southwest Suspending hiring through 2024....
- Thread starter thepedroid
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Literally any airline pilot, circa 2019.
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So an unprecedented pandemic is about to hit? You watching conspiracy theory YouTube videos?
phill1174
Well-Known Member
April 8 is the big day apparently
. Also it’s a leap year just like 2020. Time to start panicking.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
*sigh*
You have been in the industry long enough, right?
Since 2000:
Dot com bust
9/11
Age 65
GFC
Pandemic
There will always be “something” that is going to set back hiring at airlines. Always.
I just agreed with CC. I’ll wait for the lightning bolt to strike me down.
Skåning
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Flyinthrew
Well-Known Member
Well, that was a big left turn, but I'm in.
Those folding lav doors are the devil apparently. I was in the OCC when a customer of size get stuck in one over the Atlantic. The spitball ideas for solving that problem were not very generous to anybody involved.
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Correct, which is why I plan my life and finances accordingly, and don't panic the second the market cools. Pilots never cease to amaze me. Hiring slows and everyone says the lost decade is coming again tomorrow. The same pilots that are financial experts, political experts, foreign policy experts, medical experts and more, can't seem to go a day without some doom and gloom coming.
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Lol!
Proximately, love your sentiments.
Bigger picture...
Doom and gloom is coming... Hell, it's already here (lots of crabs in the pot don't notice).
Just not in the "aviation" "industry". (which is, of course, one of the main causal agents in our current state of gloom and doom.)
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Except it isn't doom and gloom. It is the cyclic nature of various industries. If the airline industry craps the bed, it craps the bed. If the economy craps the bed, it craps the bed. Let it actually be here instead of pankicking. I have been listening to pilots for the last 2 years saying the crash is imminent, just so they can be right when it comes. Enjoy the day and stop being so fearful lol...
I was talking more about injecting billions of tons of hot gas CO2 into the upper atmosphere - precisely where that kind of thing does the most damage -not just as a greenhouse gas, but as a crazy, stupid heat source.
Hiboglossi
The Most Depressing Person
Pilots have successfully predicted 500 of the last 3 recessions.
Well, many of them are Lysdexic. That's why the plumber's union wouldn't take 'em as apprentices.
Soul Brotha'
Off to go do Black guy stuff
$20 the guy on the inside was pulling too thinking the door folded in.
Exactly!
///AMG
Well-Known Member
This is a great point, and I wasn't trying to say there is a reason to be fearful of the next bad thing. I just have always been financially nervous, for lack of a better term, as my general nature. That being said, I do think there is a portion of the population who thinks the good times will continue forever. The good times may go, and will surely come back. But I hope people have a reasonable plan for the next time there is a bad period. This could probably be said for any industry, if you just look at the last recession as an example. I was very shielded from that one since I was on active duty in the military, and I'd say I was only vaguely aware of it at the time....I wouldn't say I really followed the news about stuff like this much back then as a guy in my mid-20's with no family and no impact to my livelihood. But in hindsight, it was a pretty big deal for a lot of people, and a lot of lines of work. I personally think we dodged it this time, coming out of COVID, but there will be another event. Like you said though, it isn't something we should be putting our energy into stressing about.
