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HR exists solely to protect the company so nothing you say about them is exactly groundbreaking. Yes assholes exist in companies. Incompetent people exist as well. The funny thing is that an incompetent person isn't personally targeting someone. You have to figure out if it is an asshole or someone that is just incompetent causing the problems. Or the person complaining could have an chip on their shoulder and can't seem to leave defense mode. As a result they are combative and cause problems as well. Yes, corporate bullshit happens all the time. Never said it didn't. I'm just pulling from personal experience and could be completely wrong. Comments like the one below this throw up a huge red flag to me because she is adding context that simply doesn't exist within the post. It literally is an emotional embellishment of what Linus actually said. How do we know this isn't something she happened to do on the job as well? "And if you read it, it pretty much says 'hehe no one has come out against us, therefore we have done no wrong'" If Linus actually hadn't heard her complaints and they hadn't been reported in the news then he is completely correct in what he said in the post she quoted. There literally are people that get into a rut when they get slighted or in trouble and read into EVERYTHING in a negative light. I have been there and I have worked directly with those people. The smallest things seem like direct attacks when in reality they are just ignorant or have a personal beef themselves. These people tend to be type-a individuals that seem to never get there way. I am not swayed by emotional appeals. While her claims need to be taken seriously we also need to take a step back for a second and actually analyze what we can before burning anyone at the stake. Who knows, perhaps the third party will come back with the goods and heads will roll. Maybe their HR people will do what they are trained to do and go into full protection mode. Hard to tell or even know. That is what makes these situations so incredibly stupid on the outside. Easy to take sides but not very easy to justify the side you are on with actual evidence since it usually isn't available publicly.

The Madison thing could be huge but her write up feels a lot like the crazy crap I would get as a union leader. I would get the craziest accusations about the company (they are doing this to me on purpose!) and random interpretations about contracts and such. These types of people do exist and that must be kept in mind. With that said, I doubt everything she said is on that level. The harassment stuff could definitely exist. I just find that a chunk of the write-up could easily fall under the misinterpretation/victim umbrella. It could be very easy to be distracted when reading contracts, employee handbooks, etc right after your brother died. Not to mention the stress of moving away from friends and family immediately after such an event as well. Without information we have no way to really know. Hell, she very well could have been an absolute mess to work with or actually was targeted for various reasons. Immediately coming to a conclusion based on her write-up would be the wrong move. LTT did say they would publish the results of a third party investigation on the Madison thing. Who knows if they actually will or if it will be accurate.

Guess my move to NC will be sort of important. Hopefully I can help vote some of the batshit crazy out but I don't have any expectations on the local front.

I could see copyright lawyers having a field day unless studios only allow it to "learn" from their own supply of scripts.

Where the hell do you live/shop? Definitely not close to that price here.

One owner low mileage?

Sadly NOTAMS aren't necessarily standard. Lots of the shorthand is but every once in a while you get some weird stuff that a regex script would fail at. Probably the same issue you have when they truncate

The were probably on tape drives from 1969. This issue was annoying I must say. Took me all day to commute home. That said, NOTAMs need completely changed. Maybe this will kick them in the butt to change them. BTW these are some examples of NOTAMs. In the digital age there is literally no excuse for this mess. Software has helped with filtering out what we need but it isn't perfect. Especially when a NOTAM goes off script.

1.07 still isn't terrible. I have been in Europe when it was 1.44.

Not necessarily from explosions. You see that stuff in the US all the time from power plants and factories. Especially if it is a persistent plume of white.

Honestly it could be the quickest way to end the war. Give Ukraine long range missiles with a stipulation that they can only hit military targets. If trust is an issue then provide them slowly rather than in bulk. Russia seems to be a place that needs a reality check in order to get them to back off. As long as their people believe the war is contained they have no reason to doubt the propaganda. Blow up a ton of airplanes in their back yard and people will notice.

I'm just saying that having more favorable people in office can provide for better contracts. Do you think a McCain or Romney controlled DoL would have resulted in the same quality of contract? I know in the case of Trump the rail workers would have been screwed. He has a history of union busting and putting anti-labor individuals into power.

To be fair, had Trump been in office the National Mediation Board would be full of his anti-labor cronies since they are appointed by the president. The railroads would still be in negotiations with less leverage than they had leading up to this point. I honestly do believe they got a better deal because Biden was the president rather than Trump. Delta Air Line pilots just got a new deal that really blows the other airlines out of the water. 34% pay raise over 4 years among other benefits. A strike vote with a labor favoring NMB can be some good leverage. Negotiations were very slow till the strike vote at Delta. 2 months later there is a deal.

Being a person that works at a union job that falls under the Railroad Labor Act I am not pleased with this at all. This directly undermines the biggest tool a union has. If they want to modify the RLA to be less of an impact on the economy but still have the same impact on the players then I wouldn't mind that as much. Taxing relevant revenue/pay at 100% could be a start. Loading up trains and being unable to pay for expenses would have a similar outcome as a full on strike.

Oh I know. Still should have done this months ago. Doing it this late in the game has zero impact.

Trump waited about as long as he could to finally file a lawsuit. The committee will be dissolved before it gets through the courts.

If I recall the Russians actually have better ejection seats than the US. Or at least they once did.

The accurate comparison would be with 2019. Deficits did go up every year of the Trump presidency so 🤷‍♂️

True but my fear is that none of the stuff they are trying to get will ever be public as a result. We shall see how this works out.

I do wonder how many documents Trump stole from the Whitehouse may involve Jan 6 and his election lies.

That flip phone though... Probably going to lose the Senate because of that. Seriously though. This subpoena is way too late. Trump will tie this up in the courts till January and a GOP House will disband the committee as their first move.

Mar-a-Lago documents inadvertently published online — and undercut Trump’s privilege claims | Salon.com WWW.SALON.COM A judge ordered the documents sealed but they were accidentally released publicly instead. Salon because Bloomberg is paywalled. They do link to the original Bloomberg article. Looks like the court Trump shopped for messed up. Woops.

How much of this is a cargo correction considering cargo has been operating at 110% and still wasn't enough for the demand over the last two years? Fedex for example had a huge growth spurt as a result of Covid. They reported $69.2 billion in revenue for the year ending on 5/2020. They reported $93.5 billion in revenue for the year ending 5/2022. Massive increases in revenue. UPS also had an explosion in revenue in 2020 and 2021. My guess is that as life returns closer to normal; cargo carriers will initially have drops in their revenue like we are seeing here. Something interesting is that passenger airlines have not been seeing a drop in travel. They also have a few extra tools that help with future estimates. People can book their flights up to 6 months out instead of like with cargo when a ton of it is on demand. Passenger airlines are still showing future revenue increases and at least have not yet revised those numbers.

Going to the UK here very soon. Sounds like it is time to contemplate what to buy...

I don't think so. That said their titles and thumbnails can be very clickbait. Sadly that is the standard YouTube strategy these days to help exploit the algorithm. The content isn't all that bad.