8-Ball Ceremony in DEN tonight!
10-05-2013, 03:16 PM
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10-05-2013, 03:47 PM
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You probably go out to dinner with scabs too....
10-05-2013, 05:27 PM
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10-05-2013, 07:49 PM
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I never said I would write anything off, just the boring stuff.
You guys stick with these traditions, in the meantime I will work on my classic cars, smoke some good cigars, go boating and get cabeza.
If these kind of traditions are 50% of your life, the 100% must be kinda lame....
You guys stick with these traditions, in the meantime I will work on my classic cars, smoke some good cigars, go boating and get cabeza.
If these kind of traditions are 50% of your life, the 100% must be kinda lame....
- the 8ball from July '13
10-05-2013, 08:28 PM
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Traditions are just that, traditions. They tie individuals to a situation, unit, company or whatever the cause to create humor and bonds. These bonds develop a right of passage, so to speak, the brings endearment to all who participated over a set time frame. As long as it doesn't create hate or single out one group the tradition is actually fun.
As for me, I will take cheesy team building efforts over decisive events any day of the week.
When I was in Afghanistan, we got mortared a lot. We started signing "you dropped a bomb on me." It was cheesy but a great laugh after and is now special to me. Btw...I hated that song before.
Traditions are important.
As for me, I will take cheesy team building efforts over decisive events any day of the week.
When I was in Afghanistan, we got mortared a lot. We started signing "you dropped a bomb on me." It was cheesy but a great laugh after and is now special to me. Btw...I hated that song before.
Traditions are important.
10-05-2013, 08:55 PM
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I'd be curious about the shirts as well since I started that part of the tradition as the Ball of my class to give it a little more flavor to it back in 98. We were the 99'ers, since everyone's SSN last 4 started with 99. That of course also was the in place process for seniority placement at the time.
Anyway, nice to see the tradition carry on. Good to see that Kru was there. Great guy that evened out the other extreme of Stuke. God save the Ball!
Lee
Anyway, nice to see the tradition carry on. Good to see that Kru was there. Great guy that evened out the other extreme of Stuke. God save the Ball!
Lee
After our sim one evening where Harry (me) "entertained" everyone with some colorful V1 cuts, we found ourselves across the street at the bar only to find there was nothing left of our tradition except the original eight ball under glass. The bartender said the decor was renovated in recent years and the proud shirts taken down, only to be replaced by sports jerseys! So we pulled the old ball out from under the glass and educated our 55+ CAL sim instructor on the tradition. He then proceeded to fill us in on 1980s CAL history and drink us under the table...and paid the entire tab. We saw him a couple weeks later at SouthTK and he denied any knowledge of our evening. Great guy!
I was unable to discover what happened to the 8-Ball shirts as the hotel managers on duty didn't have any good intel. As a new hire, I haven't been back to the TK, but if any of you know the whereabouts of the shirts, perhaps we can find a good home for them again.
Long live The Ball!
-HD
10-05-2013, 10:44 PM
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I never said I would write anything off, just the boring stuff.
You guys stick with these traditions, in the meantime I will work on my classic cars, smoke some good cigars, go boating and get cabeza.
If these kind of traditions are 50% of your life, the 100% must be kinda lame....
You guys stick with these traditions, in the meantime I will work on my classic cars, smoke some good cigars, go boating and get cabeza.
If these kind of traditions are 50% of your life, the 100% must be kinda lame....
LONG LIVE THE BALL
10-06-2013, 05:22 AM
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I get the whole traditions while in a war zone. You have to have something to divert your attention away for a little bit.
The airline environment is far from a war zone and traditions like the 8 ball thing are lame.
Maybe if the legacy UAL pilots spent more time on customer service and getting their non-pilot co-workers into customer service, their airline wood have been stronger. Oh wait, thinking like that makes me a company boy or management boy or scab in training.... What else??
New tradition for everyone: Great customer service, efficient flying, large profit and more contract negotiating power.
The airline environment is far from a war zone and traditions like the 8 ball thing are lame.
Maybe if the legacy UAL pilots spent more time on customer service and getting their non-pilot co-workers into customer service, their airline wood have been stronger. Oh wait, thinking like that makes me a company boy or management boy or scab in training.... What else??
New tradition for everyone: Great customer service, efficient flying, large profit and more contract negotiating power.
So far all I have seen this CAL style focus do is infuriate our best customers and send them to the competition. The steady erosion in financial performance post merger speaks for itself.
Are the rest of your tips on the All About Me section of Flying Together?
10-06-2013, 05:34 AM
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I get the whole traditions while in a war zone. You have to have something to divert your attention away for a little bit.
The airline environment is far from a war zone and traditions like the 8 ball thing are lame.
Maybe if the legacy UAL pilots spent more time on customer service and getting their non-pilot co-workers into customer service, their airline wood have been stronger. Oh wait, thinking like that makes me a company boy or management boy or scab in training.... What else??
New tradition for everyone: Great customer service, efficient flying, large profit and more contract negotiating power.
The airline environment is far from a war zone and traditions like the 8 ball thing are lame.
Maybe if the legacy UAL pilots spent more time on customer service and getting their non-pilot co-workers into customer service, their airline wood have been stronger. Oh wait, thinking like that makes me a company boy or management boy or scab in training.... What else??
New tradition for everyone: Great customer service, efficient flying, large profit and more contract negotiating power.
A friendly word of advice. Learn to listen before you expound as you did in your post. Be governed by the wisdom that, "It is better to be silent and thought to be a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
Since you chose to expound however, perhaps you can enlighten all of us unwashed masses...what is this "airline wood" you speak of?
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