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Originally Posted by Snuggle  Interesting views. I was recently pretty upset with the info of my base closing. I flew with one our captains here who gave me some similar advice. He told me a little about his background and what kind of jobs he's hand in the past. It really made me appreciate the job I do now and put things into perspective. I know we all have complaints and I respect the decisions people make to better their QOL but sometimes the complaining really does get annoying. Like I stated earlier, a bad attitude will stay with you no matter who you work for. It really is what you make of it. |
Indeed, perspective makes a difference.
I flew with a Captain last week, and he started complaining about how much his quality of life went down when our company closed the Orlando base and he now has to commute. In his words, "They completely changed my life". He said that it was miserable.
My answer? 'When are you quitting?". He didn't know how to answer that. Every time he whined about something, I'd ask him when he was quitting. He soon stopped whining and simply shut the F- up. I refuse to be in the cockpit with somebody that whines the whole time. NOT gonna happen. If commuting is that bad to him, he should just not commute.
There is a huge difference between saying, "This isn't cool . . . we really need to fix this" and saying, "This place sucks . . . management sucks . . . would you believe what they did to me this month?? . . . ", etc etc. If you wanna fix things, then fix them. But, I don't wanna hear your sad stories of woe.