Memphis
07-06-2009, 03:13 PM
#82
Living the dream!
Joined APC: May 2006
Position: MD-11 Capt
Posts: 915
07-06-2009, 09:31 PM
#86
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: 777 Capt
Posts: 403
No way you only waste one extra day a month. When I commuted I was very senior and was coming from DFW. Very close with lots of deadheading choices. Getting home at 5 or 6am and sleeping most of the day is a day wasted when you could have slept in your bed and gotten a good nights sleep and been there for your family. Even your number 12 days a year x 20 years = 240 days you will never get back. And we both know you lose more than 12 days a year. Why still an FO after 20 years?.. Oh I guess it makes the commuting easier.
My kids have friends of all races and I have never had any theft of any kind. Sounds like you are saying non commuters choose to subject our families to violence and race discrimination.
Next time you are in town PM me and come down for dinner/drink and meet my family and show me the danger that I don't see. I really do mean that you are welcome anytime. 13 miles from the parking lot. That goes for any of the commuters who are scared of the Memphis area and feel sorry for the folks that live here. I can prove you wrong.
My garage doors are open right now and have been all day and they are like that every day. Kids stuff everywhere and I'm not 1% worried about any of it. Sorry your kids had to experience a crime at such a young age.
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My kids have friends of all races and I have never had any theft of any kind. Sounds like you are saying non commuters choose to subject our families to violence and race discrimination.
Next time you are in town PM me and come down for dinner/drink and meet my family and show me the danger that I don't see. I really do mean that you are welcome anytime. 13 miles from the parking lot. That goes for any of the commuters who are scared of the Memphis area and feel sorry for the folks that live here. I can prove you wrong.
My garage doors are open right now and have been all day and they are like that every day. Kids stuff everywhere and I'm not 1% worried about any of it. Sorry your kids had to experience a crime at such a young age.
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RT and GaF, evidently, I inadvertently touched a nerve. Sorry, didn't mean to. But please, re-read my post. I was talking about Memphis, and the FBI statistics were for Memphis. Several posters have been saying there are areas of the city proper that were OK places to live. They may be, but the FBI statistics, as you say, speak for themselves when talking about living in Memphis proper.
I have several friends in Germantown, Collierville, and Olive Branch and I agree with you that they are all nice places to raise a family. You still need to be concerned about your family going to a Memphis mall or downtown without you, though. I even seriously considered moving the family to Collierville when I first got hired 13 years ago. The wife was comfortable in the small town we lived in in California, and wanted to stay even though we both grew up in the South.
As for losing days at home, I actually gained days at home when I was commuting from California to Memphis, by bidding west coast double deadhead trips. I bid LA to gain even more days at home.
But, I, like many others at Fedex, have chosen seat seniority over more money. After experiencing what it was like to be very junior at Fedex, I swore to myself that I would only upgrade at 80% seat seniority. I could have, and would have had enough seniority to upgrade to a wide body captain two years ago, with enough seniority to not get abused too badly, but for the age 60 legislation, DW's decision to allow the ND's to come back to the front, and the recent seat regression. With two kids in college to pay for, I broke that promise to myself a couple of bids ago and am getting ready to start upgrade training, even though I won't be above the 80% threshold.
Like I said, I'm glad those of you who live in or near Memphis find it a comfortable place to live. Thank goodness the Fedex system allows the 70% of us who choose to live elsewhere, to do so. Let's hope the sodimizer and 4.a.2.b. don't make that choice too difficult to live with.
And R1200RT, I'd love to tip a cold one with you when I get to the planet for training. I'm sure it would be a very welcome change from the gucci building training regime.
07-22-2009, 08:03 PM
#87
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Joined APC: Mar 2008
Posts: 609
07-22-2009, 08:33 PM
#88
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Joined APC: Mar 2008
Position: A330B
Posts: 210
I've been MEM based for most of the last 20 years. This city has tanked worse than any area I could imagine. I won't bore you with a trip down memory lane, but it is also my home. We moved to Lakeland 16 years ago with the idea we'd buy the Captain house in a few years. We bought acreage in Fisherville, and got intel on the future planned expansion of Memphis and dumped it. Best decision ever! Lakeland is not Gtown or C'ville and that suits us fine. Kids have grown up on the lake, with a rural feel, gone to parochial schools, and avoided some of the peer pressure over posessions. Just had friends over for ribs, and sat out by the water, put on a brief pyrotechnic show for the kids, fireworks and day/night flares, and will take the boys shooting at MSSA in the morning. No, this is not Memphis, or Germantown, or anyplace remotely like it. I'd have been arraigned by now. Until we move to Tucson for the winters, and Cedar Crest, NM for the rest, it'll do.
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