Avgwhitemale

That is terrible!!!! If I would buy you a beer to fix that kick to the Nut$$$

Roadkill

Does anyone else think the Delta bidding process is addictive? It seems a lot like one of those online games, Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG, and you know anything that sounds like "more pig!" must be good!). Online you get hooked on grinding away at some meaningless repetitive task, that gives you small meaningless rewards every so often. Guys spend days leveling up on lumberjacking or fishing, because it gives them some small bonus to dex or strength for their character, or gives them some pixel-crack item. So too with Delta bidding...

First comes the monthly bid package... you wait for it and wait, when's it gonna be out? What kind of trips will there be next month?? They change it up just enough that you wonder and have some anticipation--maybe we'll get Anchorage back, maybe there will be Jamaica, maybe not TOO much JFK redeye action? FINALLY like the old Sears catalog arriving, or the Sports Illustrated swim suit issue for the genY'ers, the bid package shows up via the backdoor--and again, there's JUST enough variability in when it does arrive that you start looking early just to see.

It's always a letdown, and so much info... you think, you plot, you make your Christmas list, you write your letter to Santa and the PBS gods, "Please Santa PBS, I've been so customer-oriented all year, and Always Engaging--I even pushed the Brand one trip and handed out American Express flyers! Please don't give me a lump-of-STI-PAP-MEX-coal! I just want a layo in SAN, I've been soooo good..."

You rewrite your bids twenty times, plot complex if-then-else-crap! algorithims and then delete them in the last 30 minutes before bids close as too risky---just gimme these days off doh! You send it into the aether and start waiting again! wait wait... wait... The results have to be out by the 17th, but it's always SOME early, again with that random element injected that is so effective at creating addiction. Those psychologists running the show and VP Pavlov have got it wired--like crack, you neeeeed them results so you can just get ON with your life and next month's plans! Where is dem results man?? Ohhhhhh hurry... They even leave the backdoor hole open, because they know how quickly that gets abused in an addicted crack-head and so why wouldn't they use that trick on us too?

Again the results are disappointing, but it's not over yet! Now comes the WORST and most addictive grinding tweak they give us--the PCS runs! They know we'd lose interest and play some other game, maybe World of Warcraft or Call to Duty, if they don't keep us hooked with some meaningless goal, so they give us the "20th PCS run". So again, your life is just suuuuuuck from a scheduling perspective cuz you've only been working here 14 years and haven't broken out of the bottom 10% yet; you have to grab at any straw of schedule tweak you can to improve--they gave you a taste of 15% for a bit and it was sweet but now they're taking that juicy bidding goodness away from you! So you dive into the PCS bid, and start looking at the open time.

Then they have you, they own you heart and soul... they start running mini-bids every 5 hours on you man with a 0700, 1200, 1700, and 2200 PCS bid run. When you start to lose interest, they float internet rumors about green slips flowing like heroin and honey from a candy mountain; and stories of guys doing rolling thunder--but ONLY if you're paying attention to the PCS bids every few hours, don't take your eye off the ball Johny!

So you're camped at your computer, bidding and waiting, studying bids and waiting, and to pass the time you read Latest and Greatest and hope for good rumor that's not just more secret addictive pumping from the PBS gods. Once in a while you get up in your bathrobe and slippers to make your kids cereal when you notice the sun is up.

Anyone else get that feeling?

iceman49

Ferd,
Just follow the signs!

forgot to bid

actually they just said no. I borrowed the line from the Simpsons but I remember thinking, I wonder if that's what they were thinking.

oh, to have been a Ferd growing up!


[photo courtesy of US The Navy of 18 year old Ferd... or 45 year old Ferd... Navy says its hard to tell]

See, women dress to be seen. But they want to be seen by Ferds. If FTB looks it's just "that guy is staring at me..." But if Ferd looks "the love of my life just saw into my soul!" No, he didn't. You're wearing black workout tights in the airport, he may have flown F-15s but that doesn't mean he walks on water all of the time.

finis72

He went to ASU, Dust Devils do better with pictures

Avgwhitemale

I saw this guy recently.....He was going through FA training. He had just jumped out of the pool!

forgot to bid

Oh the pool....


btw, singing flight attendants? That caught me off guard taxing in.

forgot to bid

What happened was instead of walking off the A330/340 simulator and hanging a right to go to the nearby elevator (didn't even need to debrief) he instead walked across the hall and ended up at the MD-88 sim area. He freaked out, went back to the A330/340 side and tried again. But without his French escort screaming "retard, retard" he just ended up back at the MD-88 simulator, accidentally walked into the briefing room and saw the cockpit poster and fell to the ground and prayed for the Delta Harijans...



someone remind Ferd that the rest of us dress business casual in the sims.

Avgwhitemale

The first "retard" is a noun....the second "retard" is a verb

80ktsClamp

I always said that the first one is asking, the second is telling, and the rest are personal.