Prepare yourselves… 2023 AEs
04-07-2023, 06:42 PM
#1911
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2013
Position: 320A
Posts: 627
What's an AE?
04-07-2023, 08:40 PM
#1912
Line Holder
Joined APC: Mar 2019
Posts: 55
I'm gonna go with no on the happy wife happy life.
The amount of people I see doing things they hate and being totally miserable to "please" their spouse is saddening.
My wife is not 100% happy 100% of the time. And if she was happy 100% of the time, with what I could theoretically control, I'd be totally friggin miserable. I call her on her bull**** and she does the same. We both went through relationship 1.0 where there was NO making that person happy, ever. Not a way to live.
I'm sure she'd be happier if I was able to debate the finer points of whatever stupid medical drama she is watching with her.
I'd possibly be happier if she knew how to port cylinders on motocross bikes.
Yet she accepts that I will likely go in the garage, revalve some dirtbike shocks/forks before ever watching Grays ER, and send the cylinders on my 2-stroke bikes out to be ported by Tom Morgan Racing or Pro Circuit.
The guys I know who go "happy wife, happy life" as they totally give up on anything in life but ATTEMPTING (and not succeding) in pleasing someone who will never be happy, is sad.
I let my wife make "fashion/color/style" choices. I have no style. If I did it would be wearing mullet and driving a jacked up 79 Bronco with the top off and two dirtbikes in the back. She leaves vehicles/engineering/contractors etc to me.
When I bought my first new truck in over 20 years, I picked the model (F-450) drivetrain (6.7 HO Diesel, 10 speed auto, 4.30 gears), options (carpet delete, cloth seats, bunch of other random stuff like trailer TPMS, aux coolers, etc). She was like "Dark Blue or Black". Dark blue truck it is.
Remodeling kitchen: Here is what fits, pick from the following layouts. Then pick the cabinets, colors, tile, counter, etc, I just make it all get done.
Clothing: She buys me metal band, and motocross shirts. And jeans. That's it. I don't mock her shoe picks (she's a Vans fan) but I do call bs on the amount of them.
The amount of people I see doing things they hate and being totally miserable to "please" their spouse is saddening.
My wife is not 100% happy 100% of the time. And if she was happy 100% of the time, with what I could theoretically control, I'd be totally friggin miserable. I call her on her bull**** and she does the same. We both went through relationship 1.0 where there was NO making that person happy, ever. Not a way to live.
I'm sure she'd be happier if I was able to debate the finer points of whatever stupid medical drama she is watching with her.
I'd possibly be happier if she knew how to port cylinders on motocross bikes.
Yet she accepts that I will likely go in the garage, revalve some dirtbike shocks/forks before ever watching Grays ER, and send the cylinders on my 2-stroke bikes out to be ported by Tom Morgan Racing or Pro Circuit.
The guys I know who go "happy wife, happy life" as they totally give up on anything in life but ATTEMPTING (and not succeding) in pleasing someone who will never be happy, is sad.
I let my wife make "fashion/color/style" choices. I have no style. If I did it would be wearing mullet and driving a jacked up 79 Bronco with the top off and two dirtbikes in the back. She leaves vehicles/engineering/contractors etc to me.
When I bought my first new truck in over 20 years, I picked the model (F-450) drivetrain (6.7 HO Diesel, 10 speed auto, 4.30 gears), options (carpet delete, cloth seats, bunch of other random stuff like trailer TPMS, aux coolers, etc). She was like "Dark Blue or Black". Dark blue truck it is.
Remodeling kitchen: Here is what fits, pick from the following layouts. Then pick the cabinets, colors, tile, counter, etc, I just make it all get done.
Clothing: She buys me metal band, and motocross shirts. And jeans. That's it. I don't mock her shoe picks (she's a Vans fan) but I do call bs on the amount of them.
04-08-2023, 05:19 AM
#1913
Rerouted On Weekends
Joined APC: Oct 2015
Position: 717A
Posts: 2,937
I'm gonna go with no on the happy wife happy life.
The amount of people I see doing things they hate and being totally miserable to "please" their spouse is saddening.
My wife is not 100% happy 100% of the time. And if she was happy 100% of the time, with what I could theoretically control, I'd be totally friggin miserable. I call her on her bull**** and she does the same. We both went through relationship 1.0 where there was NO making that person happy, ever. Not a way to live.
I'm sure she'd be happier if I was able to debate the finer points of whatever stupid medical drama she is watching with her.
I'd possibly be happier if she knew how to port cylinders on motocross bikes.
Yet she accepts that I will likely go in the garage, revalve some dirtbike shocks/forks before ever watching Grays ER, and send the cylinders on my 2-stroke bikes out to be ported by Tom Morgan Racing or Pro Circuit.
The guys I know who go "happy wife, happy life" as they totally give up on anything in life but ATTEMPTING (and not succeding) in pleasing someone who will never be happy, is sad.
I let my wife make "fashion/color/style" choices. I have no style. If I did it would be wearing mullet and driving a jacked up 79 Bronco with the top off and two dirtbikes in the back. She leaves vehicles/engineering/contractors etc to me.
When I bought my first new truck in over 20 years, I picked the model (F-450) drivetrain (6.7 HO Diesel, 10 speed auto, 4.30 gears), options (carpet delete, cloth seats, bunch of other random stuff like trailer TPMS, aux coolers, etc). She was like "Dark Blue or Black". Dark blue truck it is.
Remodeling kitchen: Here is what fits, pick from the following layouts. Then pick the cabinets, colors, tile, counter, etc, I just make it all get done.
Clothing: She buys me metal band, and motocross shirts. And jeans. That's it. I don't mock her shoe picks (she's a Vans fan) but I do call bs on the amount of them.
The amount of people I see doing things they hate and being totally miserable to "please" their spouse is saddening.
My wife is not 100% happy 100% of the time. And if she was happy 100% of the time, with what I could theoretically control, I'd be totally friggin miserable. I call her on her bull**** and she does the same. We both went through relationship 1.0 where there was NO making that person happy, ever. Not a way to live.
I'm sure she'd be happier if I was able to debate the finer points of whatever stupid medical drama she is watching with her.
I'd possibly be happier if she knew how to port cylinders on motocross bikes.
Yet she accepts that I will likely go in the garage, revalve some dirtbike shocks/forks before ever watching Grays ER, and send the cylinders on my 2-stroke bikes out to be ported by Tom Morgan Racing or Pro Circuit.
The guys I know who go "happy wife, happy life" as they totally give up on anything in life but ATTEMPTING (and not succeding) in pleasing someone who will never be happy, is sad.
I let my wife make "fashion/color/style" choices. I have no style. If I did it would be wearing mullet and driving a jacked up 79 Bronco with the top off and two dirtbikes in the back. She leaves vehicles/engineering/contractors etc to me.
When I bought my first new truck in over 20 years, I picked the model (F-450) drivetrain (6.7 HO Diesel, 10 speed auto, 4.30 gears), options (carpet delete, cloth seats, bunch of other random stuff like trailer TPMS, aux coolers, etc). She was like "Dark Blue or Black". Dark blue truck it is.
Remodeling kitchen: Here is what fits, pick from the following layouts. Then pick the cabinets, colors, tile, counter, etc, I just make it all get done.
Clothing: She buys me metal band, and motocross shirts. And jeans. That's it. I don't mock her shoe picks (she's a Vans fan) but I do call bs on the amount of them.
04-08-2023, 06:41 AM
#1914
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Position: window seat
Posts: 12,544
04-08-2023, 10:48 AM
#1915
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2017
Position: NYC 7ERA
Posts: 2,063
Preferably 7ER Captain because of the SXM and AUA overnights we used to do on it with occasional FRA, CDG LIS trips (I was very good a sniping Europe as yellow slips) , but 320 Captain was the best available when I came back from Mil Leave. If I knew that ER Captain was going to go so junior on the next AE after I came back, I'd have just gone back to ER FO and sat NQAT for months.
Nope. All RJ commute from where I live to NYC.
Nope. All RJ commute from where I live to NYC.
04-08-2023, 03:25 PM
#1916
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2009
Position: Middle Seat
Posts: 1,229
Three weekends in a row with 100+ cancellations per day, mostly due to crew. Not enough GSs in the world to cover what’s sitting in open time.
04-08-2023, 04:11 PM
#1917
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2014
Position: Drivin’ the bus
Posts: 728
I've been on OFF days 7 out of the last 8. Had blanket GS in every day. Nada. Zilch. Zip. And they are cancelling trips in my category. I think they've stopped trying.
04-08-2023, 04:21 PM
#1918
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2016
Posts: 374
what base, airplane and seat? 737 B here, no slips in and Ive been getting about 20’ IA calls every weekend.
04-09-2023, 09:46 AM
#1920
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2015
Position: stake holder ir.delta.com
Posts: 10,465
Revenue management genius. The ole bait and switch. Offer 5 flights on a route at a price with 80% load factor. Then it turns into 100% when you cancel one and force everyone on to the remaining 4 with the effective cost of 4 flights. (or 5 minus the expected GS expense) Same effect as overselling flights like years ago. Only this gamble is a sure bet, where as the oversell may or may not fill the plane but then backfire in public opinion. If you cancel for crew availability the HVC feels fortunate to get on the next flight. And the bonus of blame falling on the crew for not showing up rather than management overselling a flight.
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