Posted on 01/26/2023 7:58:53 AM PST by montag813
YES
Her ancestors should have been left on the African savanna. It’s not as though the slave boat buyers ever did any IQ tests for picking cotton
Chris Plante Show on Twitter: “Everyday’s an IQ test!”
https://twitter.com/ChrisPlanteShow/status/1608825427560390662
Dec 30, 2022 · Everyday’s an IQ test! 30 Dec 2022 14:00:47
BFL
Back in the 1950s a flock if starlings brought down a passenger jet. In response, the Pratt and Whitney engine plant in East Hartford CT developed an air cannon chambered for 3-4lb chickens used to shoot birds into engines as part of quality control.
As a concession to humane behavior the engineers grudging agreed to use dead chickens.
Possible urban legend:
They sold a chicken gun to British Railways, for testing the windscreen on a new high-speed train. Railways were alarmed that the chicken penetrated the windscreen, the engineer’s seat, and a couple of bulkheads behind. They asked for help, and after explaining their entire test protocol were advised to thaw the chicken first.
So how do they clean up the er... mess?
Good point about COVID and vax. What industry has not had labor shortages and high turnover?
....Indeed....! yes, not sure if it is still around (the internet is FOREVER...!) but it was a sailor getting ready to launch an A-6 if I recall, and he got sucked into the aircraft’s port (left, for you land-lubbers...) running engine. The engine immediately FODded out (FOD - Foreign Object Damage...) when his flashlight and I think his protective helmet went into the engine...he crawled out, by some grace of God, thankfully alive but shaken....probably needed a skivvies change after that....
Some people just don’t think that rules apply to them. Some learn the hard way that they do.
As a business owner it has been my judgement that 2 workers I had hired were intentionally trying to get hurt to claim workman's comp and disability.
Thank God for Fire at Will laws that most states have is all I can say. Once I came to that conclusion I immediately let them go with no reason given. It has become so prevalent now to get permanent disability on the jobsite my insurance company hosts webinars to look for the signs of it.
I deal with people who are completely self-absorbed and abhor anyone who tries to tell them anything, even if it's for their own safety.
Logic, reason, and facts only set them off even worse. They'll get up in people's faces and accuse of them of anything they can think of to get the person to stop telling them what they don't want hear.
They're a dangerous liability since too many situations depend on knowing what to do and when to do it, and they just won't listen.
It seems like a supervisor would have relieved her of duties before she had the chance to try it a second time.
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Only if the supervisor was black also. Otherwise he’d be brought up on racism charges.
As a former Aviation Boatswain Mate Handler. The NAVY brings him back ever now and then to brief all flight deckers on the dangers of working in and around aircraft on the flight deck.
Yes,I’ve watched many flight deck videos (it keeps me off the streets!) and I’ve heard several men make it very clear that a Navy carrier deck is a very,very dangerous place. I remember one guy saying something like “you always have to be looking all around because what was safe 5 seconds ago isn’t safe now”.
If you fell asleep and woke up at DFW you would think you landed in Mogadishu. The staffing there is, disconcerting. I have no doubt she was a trouble employee who “ain’t got time fo dat” when it came to safety and her supervisors just gave up even trying to deal with her.
[I deal with people who are completely self-absorbed and abhor anyone who tries to tell them anything, even if it’s for their own safety.
Logic, reason, and facts only set them off even worse. They’ll get up in people’s faces and accuse of them of anything they can think of to get the person to stop telling them what they don’t want hear.]
Oh I am familiar with this attitude quite well.
The luggage handlers likely worked for an independent company, a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) or a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE), that was created to get priority in the bidding on airport contracts.
Another reason I prefer not to fly.
These are dangerous jobs being done by the lowest bidder, while I might get selected for a pat down screen.
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