Works out great at my current shop that there are bidlines that aren't my jam that other guys take. One mans trash etc.Maybe I’m a weirdo but I’ll take an easy, lazy 4 day why one or two legs a day vs a go go go hard working 3 day, but I’m pretty lazy. Definitely don’t see the appeal of doing 5 days worth of day trips just to be home every night but basically just have time to zombie out and eat dinner before bed and getting back up to drive to the airport.
If you keep saying it's everyone else, it's probably you.I just can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want to hang out with @BEEF SUPREME unless professionally obligated to. Just...blows my mind!
“You’re not an introvert! You just suck at social interaction” says the guy who just can’t get along with people he works with at like 8 different companies
We aren’t SUPPOSED to be hanging out and haven’t been supposed to since March.
Truth. The first year I was skeptical. Now, with 2.5 years under my belt, I have stopped updating all my legacy apps and rarely update the freight apps. +1 for former corporate pilots. Nothing beats working 10-12 days a month, sleeping half that time in a bunk (while getting paid), drinking beer and eating good food around the world.ACMI is a weird place to be happily married.
+1 on the former regional pilots though. Similar distrust of management and usually enough professionalism to keep their crazy political views to themselves.
Truth. The first year I was skeptical. Now, with 2.5 years under my belt, I have stopped updating all my legacy apps and rarely update the freight apps. +1 for former corporate pilots. Nothing beats working 10-12 days a month, sleeping half that time in a bunk (while getting paid), drinking beer and eating good food around the world.
An easy out for the chatty Kathy's on those long flights is to pull out your ipad and act like you're reading the GOM or some other company material, while having spotify running in the background. Works for me. But normally, after the first 1-2 hours, conversations tend to stop.
@BobDDuck i assume you are referring to the good old days of the 6 leg day on day 4 at PSA? I do not miss those at all.
I'm not going to go back to page one, but it appears we have two schools of thought.I'd start with re-reading this thread?
Maybe? I might do a few. But I signed up for this job because I don't want to drive to work everyday.
I'm not going to go back to page one, but it appears we have two schools of thought.
1) if we have something in common that's of interest we will talk, if not I'm comfortable sitting quietly
and
2) I need to fill the quiet time with banal conversation because silence makes me uncomfortable
I know which one of those I'm in, but where are you and why does (2) make you uncomfortable?
Yup. I’m not sure I could go back to 2-4 days off at a time. 17 day trips are hard, but having the rest of the month to forget I even have a job I’d spectacular. Especially if you get the second half of one month of and the first half of the next.
Strike eight....
However, being that this is JC, where it seems a large group of otherwise socially distant introverts gather for community an extroverts opinions could be held as quite awful.
Hahaha. Hell no.What, you don’t like a daily dose of 205 traffic??!
1) I made the assertion that if one was not happy associating with their coworkers outside of the flight deck, it was highly likely they probably were not that great at association within the flight deck. All things being equal.
2) I've never mentioned that I found comfortable silences anything but.
3) When on long road trips or when flying large aircraft for more than 3-4 hours. It is nice when socialized, normal humans make conversation and pass the time.
4) Flying with a socially awkward 60 year old who talked to himself was odd. I did my best to get along and didn't mind but it was at times embarrassing to ask if he was talking to me an had forgotten to turn the intercom on or if he was muttering under his breath.
I have no idea how my past words can be misinterpreted. Or how what I just said could be misinterpreted. However, being that this is JC, where it seems a large group of otherwise socially distant introverts gather for community an extroverts opinions could be held as quite awful.
However, being that this is JC, where it seems a large group of otherwise socially distant introverts gather for community an extroverts opinions could be held as quite awful.
If you'd read back and seen my input on this thread you would have already noted the following:
1) I made the assertion that if one was not happy associating with their coworkers outside of the flight deck, it was highly likely they probably were not that great at association within the flight deck. All things being equal.
2) I've never mentioned that I found comfortable silences anything but.
3) When on long road trips or when flying large aircraft for more than 3-4 hours. It is nice when socialized, normal humans make conversation and pass the time.
4) Flying with a socially awkward 60 year old who talked to himself was odd. I did my best to get along and didn't mind but it was at times embarrassing to ask if he was talking to me an had forgotten to turn the intercom on or if he was muttering under his breath.
I have no idea how my past words can be misinterpreted. Or how what I just said could be misinterpreted. However, being that this is JC, where it seems a large group of otherwise socially distant introverts gather for community an extroverts opinions could be held as quite awful.
Well, certainly it's allowable if he would identify with a whole other group more, but if the other group didn't like airplanes then this one would be a close second. Asking for a friend, will take answers off air.You would get a lot less crap from people on JC if you'd stop referring to JC as "You all" or "JC people" and start including yourself with words like "us" and "we." You tend to separate yourself (textually) from the community you post regularly in. It's....disingenuous, I think, whether or not it is intentional.
Well, certainly it's allowable if he would identify with a whole other group more, but if the other group didn't like airplanes then this one would be a close second. Asking for a friend, will take answers off air.
The latter happens before the former
Ok, but your postings create the image of somebody that's uncomfortable with them
Agreed, but not everybody sees the world through your lens and doesn't necessarily want to listen to how you view it.
Again, we're back to this one instance
How many of the weekly Zoom chats have you been on?