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That would be the motivation for the union, but the question was about the company.
It would be a major accusation to say that there is an illegal strike occurring. Keeping that card unplayed gives SW more negotiating power
Comment from the Southwest Pilots Union... >SWA has claimed that the immediate causes of this weekend’s meltdown were staffing at Jacksonville Center and weather in the southeast U.S., but what was a minor temporary event for other carriers devastated Southwest Airlines because our operation has become brittle and subject to massive failures under the slightest pressure. Our operation and our frontline employees have…
> our operation has become brittle and subject to massive failures under the slightest pressure I somehow notice a lot of this lately, in many different areas. I wonder if there isn't a common cause behind those. Is it just covid or something bigger?
This type of event is the obvious possible downside that is well known when you structure a company this way. It’s not that events like this aren’t expected, it’s that prepping for them costs more than the loss from not being able to absorb them.
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Maybe, or maybe not. Suppose you accept 1.5x or 2x or even 3x your annual salary to take a COBOL job. Nice... for now. What happens in 2, 5, or 10 years when this COBOL gig ends? Now your skills have withered or disappeared and you're 2, 5, or 10 years behind when it comes to "modern" technologies where 99.9% of the job opportunities are. In a sense, that COBOL job is a gamble. You are gambling that you can ride that…
> What happens in 2, 5, or 10 years when this COBOL ends? What happens in 1 or 2 years when the current hottest new full-stack, mvc, reactive 3.0 whatever is old and tired and you have to learn the new thing? You learn the new thing.
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Is it true that 35-40% of US residents are obese?
That would mean that 60% to 65% of those that died were not obese! Just FYI, the CDC says that about 42% of American adults are classified as "obese".
https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-c...
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Is it true that 35-40% of US residents are obese?
That would mean that 60% to 65% of those that died were not obese! Just FYI, the CDC says that about 42% of American adults are classified as "obese".
Im avoiding travel until the airlines shake off the cobwebs from being mostly shut down during covid.
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> Military politicians are older than humankind itself. Just curious, is this just hyperbole or do you have an actual example? ETA: I mean the "older than humankind itself" part. Like what does that mean in this context?
Maybe a group of apes led by (political) the strongest one (military)?
Then you fight him.
There seems to be a lot of reluctance to get the vaccine among the young, at-will employed despite the downside of being out of work if they test positive.
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Can you explain employers and schools who previously had vaccine mandates (hepatitis and measles are examples I’ve seen for schools and healthcare workers) and what makes this vaccine different? If the argument is “mandates are wrong”, we’ve had them for over 150 years. If the argument is it’s not safe, its FDA approved and has been administered over a billion times. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/vaccine-man…
These vaccines are also more dangerous. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-pauses-use-mode... Finland and Sweden have now halted Moderna vaccination for under-30s due to side effects.
There's a cutthroat competition between the airlines so how can we be surprised that they have to "optimise" everything until fuckups like this start to happen? Consumers who are looking for someone to blame for this, should look in the mirror: those people who pick the cheapest picket at Expedia just by "sort by cheapest first", are the main culprits. Airline industry is in the pathetic state it is due to irrational…
Between the major airlines, it’s hard for me to know if one is better than the other. They’ve all had some mess up or another make the news. So why not just pick the cheapest? Perhaps the real problem is the lack of consumer reviews attached to those prices.