the "not worthy of it's own thread" thread

asicer said:
You have to badge out? That sucks. I only have to badge in.
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Same. I sometimes head in - badge in, use the bathroom, leave.

Break break—-

Today I picked up some rime
I was still able to stop on a dime
We’ll have to put it in the hangar
So that tomorrow we’re not in danger
But they wanted all my money
It wasn’t at all funny
That’s what winter brings
And man, it stings

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That was my rime ice rhyme.
 
eman1200 said:
Office seat. Next to people I don’t know or work with. But this is SOOOOO Beneficial says mgmt. ****ers.
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Unassigned work stations, hoteling office what not?
 
Man. I was dealing with that crap even pre COVID. Management wanted me in the office (in Charlotte) for a week once a month. So, I’d lose most of a day each way to travel for no particular benefit. At first it was OK; face time with my team was of some value. As time went on, though, I noticed fewer and fewer of them were there when I showed up. I generally didn’t even really see my manager for more than a few minutes. I backed off my trips to every 5 weeks, then 6, then once a quarter.

Toward the end the building, a huge complex built to house 10,000 workers, was a ghost town. In the beginning I had trouble finding an empty seat or hotel cube; by 2017 or so I could sit anywhere, I just had to dodge the tumbleweeds blowing between the rows of cubes. I finally just stopped going unless there was a specific reason I HAD to be there.

They were plenty peeved that their huge building was almost empty; they started all kinds of things to try to force people to spend more time on the office. By this time they had been hiring people all over the country without regard for location; a pretty good portion of the population were full time telecommuters. Then they decided that everyone had to either (I swear I’m not making this up) MOVE to one of five cities where there were large corporate offices, or get fired. Of course plenty of people just quit to avoid the rush; they were starting to fire people when COVID happened.

Idiots.
 
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eman1200 said:
badge out time minus badge in time. even my company's management can handle that math.
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Man sorry to hear about getting forced back in.

Personally I find it puzzling that should-be smart managers and CEOs think parking your ass in a chair in a specific location makes you more productive.

When I ran my last 2 teams (both a mix of local and throughout the country), couldn't GAF where you worked, when your Dr's appt was, when you had to WFH cause kids are sick, why you logged in 30 mins late/logged out 1hr early. Truly don't care. What I care about is 1 thing: ARE YOU DOING YOUR JOB WELL? If you got that covered, you're good. Don't need to look out over my workstation wall and see my personal fiefdom. F that noise.

Thank GOD my bosses (and their bosses) was the same way.

This is gonna be a really grand HBR case study in like 10 years lol.
 
There is something very satisfying about coming back to your plane after a heavy blow and finding your tie down just as tight as when you left it.
 
bflynn said:
There is something very satisfying about coming back to your plane after a heavy blow and finding your tie down just as tight as when you left it.
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If I had not been on a trip this door would have been on the nose of an airplane we had. We landed about an hour after the storm. 20190609_152235.jpg
 
I did an aviation today. North Dakota to Dallas, 930 nm, 5.1 hours, fuel stops are for the birds. I even caught my commercial flight at DFW, back to ND. People at work tomorrow will be all “What did you do this weekend?” And I’ll be all “I went to supper in Texas.”

Don’t judge me that supper was TGI Friday’s at the airport. I don’t like cutting it close with airport security.
 
iamtheari said:
I did an aviation today. North Dakota to Dallas, 930 nm, 5.1 hours, fuel stops are for the birds. I even caught my commercial flight at DFW, back to ND. People at work tomorrow will be all “What did you do this weekend?” And I’ll be all “I went to supper in Texas.”

Don’t judge me that supper was TGI Friday’s at the airport. I don’t like cutting it close with airport security.
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How cold is it in ND right now? We were below 0F all day here today. Supposed to be 51 Thursday.
 
Jim K said:
How cold is it in ND right now? We were below 0F all day here today. Supposed to be 51 Thursday.
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Yesterday the high was -5F. It was about 15F when I took off and I think it hit 30F. December has ranged from -15 to 50 so far, and we are just getting started. (I’m in the warmer end of the state. Grand Forks uses the Kelvin scale during the winter to keep from needing large negative numbers.)
 
What did you get to fly from ND to TX?
 
And in today's news...


A 18 wheeler was hijacked today off I-40, carrying a large shipment of Viagra.

The police are looking for a gang of hardened criminals.
 
Zeldman said:
And in today's news...


A 18 wheeler was hijacked today off I-40, carrying a large shipment of Viagra.

The police are looking for a gang of hardened criminals.
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They say after 48 hours with something like this leads go cold and odds of success shrink.
 
is the internet broken??

so I have this buddy who has a birthday today (he's pretty fkng old) and I wanted to search for dirty disgusting birthday memes that would put a smile on his face but I was having trouble getting results from google. it used to be you could search for just about anything and half of the results would be garbage trash (you know, exactly the stuff I'm looking for), now I'm looking for specific stuff and can't find ANY of it! WTF is wrong with the internet??!??? for example, now when I search for duckface I'm actually getting ducks faces as the results. wasn't long ago the result set would be VASTLY different. what gives????!!!??
 
They make up for it with the waffle maker and belt machine pancake maker. How cool it would be to have those in your own house. And the look on your wife’s face when she opens it as her B Day present!
 
WDD said:
They make up for it with the waffle maker and belt machine pancake maker. How cool it would be to have those in your own house. And the look on your wife’s face when she opens it as her B Day present!
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Gonna disagree on the pancake maker. I have yet to see one that will make a pancake that couldn't double as shoe leather.
 
eman1200 said:
is the internet broken??

so I have this buddy who has a birthday today (he's pretty fkng old) and I wanted to search for dirty disgusting birthday memes that would put a smile on his face but I was having trouble getting results from google. it used to be you could search for just about anything and half of the results would be garbage trash (you know, exactly the stuff I'm looking for), now I'm looking for specific stuff and can't find ANY of it! WTF is wrong with the internet??!??? for example, now when I search for duckface I'm actually getting ducks faces as the results. wasn't long ago the result set would be VASTLY different. what gives????!!!??
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I don’t know about google but some search engines automatically select safe for work mode so kids get ducks and not whatever you are thinking about
 
His wife probably just needs to unlock the parental controls she put on. Or maybe for humanity's sake, not.
 
Bill said:
Why are hotel toasters universally lousy?
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I don't know about universally. One hotel had one in good condition akin to what you'd get a Williams Sonoma. Granted, the hotel was not much more than a B&B. Another had a conveyor belt and it worked pretty well. Perhaps the ones that you've used were old and worn out?
 
Zeldman said:
Usually the ones that let pilots stay there...
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The trick is to leave the girls and the bottles in the car until you get the room key. Then, make sure you have a bag for the bottles and jackets for the girls, and be very very quiet while walking past the front desk.
 
At work (a non-aviation place of business), it's not uncommon for people to forget their printouts in the copy room. Somebody left a few clippings of a VFR sectional along with an XC log. I suspect that this is actually a humble-brag.
 
asicer said:
At work (a non-aviation place of business), it's not uncommon for people to forget their printouts in the copy room. Somebody left a few clippings of a VFR sectional along with an XC log. I suspect that this is actually a humble-brag.
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oh man you should totally re-route their flight plan thru the bravo and put it back in the copier!
 
Arnold said:
Options:

Hit it in the butt,
Hit it while it was in cruise,
Hit it on its departure,
Hit it while it was circling.
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I know you wanted to cover a lot of options so I need to help you out with an important one that you missed.
Other
 
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