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   @RupertvonRipp @WashedOutGundamPilot Only good Boomer is a dead one?
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     Yes.
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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @RupertvonRipp It pays more to keep a job posting up, than to fill it and train a new hire.
     
     It pays more to sign up for a job, and then not do it.
     
     What the hell did Boomers do to turn everything so fucking upside down?!
     
     We were raised to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps to achieve success, and now not even comfortable poverty in independence is possible.
     
     These fucks get to retire to Margaritaville with a gold watch on a carnival cruise, and we'll end up working until the day we keel over on the assembly line.
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     @LionelValentineAborted @RupertvonRipp Well the shit ones do. I see a lot of blue collar boomer guys who just have to keep working because so much depends on them. Sometimes it’s cancer, alzheimers, kids’ worthless (but he doesn’t know that) college degrees, a home for the clan… they’re putting in the work.

     I think a lot of the GenX boomers are in for that. I see many profligate spenders hurtling towards retirement, thinking their 1990 $125,000 home in some metro area will pay for it all so they can spend 35 years straight going on cruises

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @LionelValentineAborted So much Boomer discourse and outcomes depend on your region and class background.
     
     Cali professionals who bought a house in 1970 and got a pension? Lottery winners.
     
     Some Ohio tire plant guy who got fucked in 1985? Probably already dead.
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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @RupertvonRipp Not just in piloting, but pretty much everywhere else as well.
     
     Every corporation and financial institution is begging for people with +20 years of experience, all while expecting to pay $15.00/hr in a city where it's $40.00hr cost of living within a 3 hour radius. Your resume immediately gets tossed out unless you know people directly.
     
     And that isn't even beginning to mention all the trade Boomers who keep complaining how nobody wants to work, all while rejecting everyone who has a degree of any kind for an apprenticeship.
     
     I love how the geriatrics are complaining all the time about how nobody wants to work, then shoot anyone who wants to work in the foot with miles of bureaucratic red tape of this exact brand.
     
     Want to get into the corporate world? Well, you're gonna need to be as experienced as our CEO, to earn that internship.
     
     Want to get into blue collar? Fuck you, you're just gonna leave as soon as the work gets hard, pussy!
     
     You can't win no matter where you go. And even if you get in, they still ain't gonna give you enough to pay your bills, even if you're going above and beyond.
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     @LionelValentineAborted @RupertvonRipp We do have this thing where they’ll pass up the eager, desperate low-time kids in favor of the retiree who won’t be reliable because the guy’s “experienced”….only to complain when he just decides not to work. Hey, you got to hire a former airline captain, but he’s just not gonna show up to work today, he’s gonna hang out in that nice hotel you’re paying for because “I don’t feel like it”

     Better yet, the second he gets a better deal he’s gone altogether! Ain’t that a joy. We really get hit with this because the airlines force you out at 65, so there’s a TON of guys with crumbling marriages who just want to be out of the house

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     Our industry is a wonderful example of the invisible bureaucracy because everyone past the hump already never had to notice the effects, but now that we’re seeing huge retirement waves everyone’s really freaking out. (their solution of course is to jam fat sheboons into cessnas in arizona to make more black women pilots, totally gonna go great)

     I point it out with old guys every time I can when they complain about how “man we just can’t find enough pilots!” - we had a crash in 2009 that led congress to impose a hard experience min on airline operators for their pilots, which, depending on operator, could have bumped up their demands by 5x.

     A whole lot of them laugh and say they started working with like, 300, maybe 500 hours back in the day. To get that exact same job today, they’d need 1500 (or 1250 if they went to college for $120k in student loans and a worthless degree about ‘aviation factors’) I should be a lot farther along, I sometimes work with old timers who are surprised I’m ‘slumming’ it as a ferry nigger and when I describe the lay of the industry they refuse to believe me. They tell me “go do banner tow!” or “crop dusting!” without knowing that in the 50 years since they did it as a bright eyed beginner, decades of accidents led to those jobs demanding just as much experience as the airlines do. Those jobs are just as expensive as ever, too, so while you could work as a banner guy, you’ll be disappointed when you only log 10 hours a month - when was the last time you even saw a sky banner?

     Everyone’s basically asking for 1,500 hours, with a bunch of odd caveats, and it’s both insanely expensive and extremely competitive when there’s only about 1/10th of the amount of experience-building work available to kids starting out. We’re literally forcing young guys to get FIVE TIMES the work experience to step in the door that their dad had to. Our chief started here with 370 about 25 years back, he was brought on to ferry the chickens from one place to another and before you know it he wound up overseeing the department altogether. He was made entirely in-house. Now I think the lowest guy we hired in the last 10 years was a ‘kid’ (26) who’d been working as a CFI for 5 years at the local “flying uni” and only had about 700 hrs in all. There just aren’t enough hours for you under that ponzi scheme, you can’t have every student graduate to ‘work” as an instructor with a 1:1 ratio.

     That’s crazy to me. It’s all instructing now if you want to get the minimum experience. (which is why it sucks, quality-wise. Nobody cares to teach well, they just fill the square and churn out more low-quality aviators)
     
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