That’s the management excuse of saying essentially that “we pay them enough to cover the time they are on duty.”
I calculated my “on duty” pay as a pilot for a smaller airline and it was ~$16/hr vs my stated hourly flight (door closed) pay.
For an experiment: Make a pilot rate $50/hr which sounds ok, but a 4 day trip is only 17 hours door closed time which pays $850 before taxes/medical, but the pilot is physically at the airport or on the plane for 37 hours over those 4 days which would be $22/duty hour. Now do the same for a flight attendant earning $21/hr. ~$350 for a 4 day trip, $9.45/duty hour.
So you can see pretty quickly why FA’s are fighting for better pay while on duty.
A big reason why so many flight attendant union protests point out that they can’t even afford to live in the cities the airlines base them to fly from.
There is “per-diem” pay which is supposed to help cover things like food and incidentals while on duty, but it is usually a pittance, $2-4 a duty hour. One $15 airport meal and a $25 dinner on the overnight would wipe out a day’s per-diem and then some, and a reason many crews bring their own food and snacks.
FA’s don’t really get paid a “higher hourly rate”. In the US it’s been a sticking point for decades, especially at smaller airlines, that FA’s qualify pretty easily for food stamps or other public assistance. Also, what isn’t mentioned is that “door closed” doesn’t mean you get paid. The airlines have installed various systems that track when the aircraft actually pushes back and made that the start of the pay clock and not the closing of the door, so everyone can sit at the gate, closed up and ready to go, and not get paid while waiting out a gate hold for whatever reason. There’s lots of little gotchas the airlines make up to not get paid. Pilots IMO are mostly finally getting paid decently after decades of poor pay (again, especially at smaller airlines) but FA’s have been on instant top ramen wages for a long, long time even after years of working for a company.
And this is why they get rid of oversight. A
Simple inspection of the plans or work to be done would have showed these turbines before they were ever built.
The anti-property tax propaganda is from the real estate hoarding corporate owners. As usual, these anti-tax wingnuts latch on to “why should I pay property tax (insert selfish reason here)” when the real reason is the real estate hoarding companies don’t want to pay property taxes on all the properties they’ve hoarded and are likely sitting empty. The same properties they used to price people out of homebuying, the same ones they used to increase rent super high because you can’t afford a home and will own nothing.
And of course anti-tax wingnuts don’t care that property taxes pay for schools, police, fire services,etc. (ain’t got no kids so why should I pay for school? My house has never burned down. Who needs cops when I got a Smith and Wesson?) and those things will still have to be paid for via some kind of tax, so in the end they still pay but the absentee owners get a huge tax break.
A lot of the icons look interesting in a weird way. Allah.exe, a file folder that looks like it might say “Bloody Europeans” or something, Pakistan Zindabad (Long Live Pakistan), and oddly it’s all in English instead of Urdu or something.
The one step further that I didn’t see - the getting rid of /all and use of the algorithm to direct you to what they want you to see also offers the opportunity to direct you to what’s most profitable, and also to what suits Reddit’s owner’s narrative.
A lot of our critical infrastructure is connected. From power generation to water to sewer. All have been subject to hacking attempts, some successful.
I have also been saying for quite a long time that these things should not be connected in a way that they can be damaged or disabled by internet.
But y’know, put it all on the web and write controller software for centralized remote operation and monitoring so you can fire people and run the system with less people for more profit.
What an awful “premium” brand. They’re the same ones trying for subscription access to heated seats, remote start, or driver assistance features among others.
I can’t believe people write anything expecting this administration to behave like a responsible adult. If anything trump’s buddies will short the stock while trump pushes it over the edge for huge profits and then hands the AI fools a bailout while they lay off all the employees with no compensation.
No, some places better, but some places are also worse too. Flight attendants almost universally are treated more poorly.
That’s the management excuse of saying essentially that “we pay them enough to cover the time they are on duty.”
I calculated my “on duty” pay as a pilot for a smaller airline and it was ~$16/hr vs my stated hourly flight (door closed) pay.
For an experiment: Make a pilot rate $50/hr which sounds ok, but a 4 day trip is only 17 hours door closed time which pays $850 before taxes/medical, but the pilot is physically at the airport or on the plane for 37 hours over those 4 days which would be $22/duty hour. Now do the same for a flight attendant earning $21/hr. ~$350 for a 4 day trip, $9.45/duty hour.
So you can see pretty quickly why FA’s are fighting for better pay while on duty.
A big reason why so many flight attendant union protests point out that they can’t even afford to live in the cities the airlines base them to fly from.
There is “per-diem” pay which is supposed to help cover things like food and incidentals while on duty, but it is usually a pittance, $2-4 a duty hour. One $15 airport meal and a $25 dinner on the overnight would wipe out a day’s per-diem and then some, and a reason many crews bring their own food and snacks.
Or maybe even someone that bundled some mods for everyone’s “convenience” and slipped this in for some lols.
And it was the painter’s job to make them look reasonably good…so whatever he looked like in reality was probably worse.
FA’s don’t really get paid a “higher hourly rate”. In the US it’s been a sticking point for decades, especially at smaller airlines, that FA’s qualify pretty easily for food stamps or other public assistance. Also, what isn’t mentioned is that “door closed” doesn’t mean you get paid. The airlines have installed various systems that track when the aircraft actually pushes back and made that the start of the pay clock and not the closing of the door, so everyone can sit at the gate, closed up and ready to go, and not get paid while waiting out a gate hold for whatever reason. There’s lots of little gotchas the airlines make up to not get paid. Pilots IMO are mostly finally getting paid decently after decades of poor pay (again, especially at smaller airlines) but FA’s have been on instant top ramen wages for a long, long time even after years of working for a company.
And this is why they get rid of oversight. A Simple inspection of the plans or work to be done would have showed these turbines before they were ever built.
I doubt they’ll be removed.
Christians: we should be assholes and then claim we’re the victims when we get punched or arrested.
For a country obsessed with guns everyone is a lousy shot. Unless it’s a school.
The anti-property tax propaganda is from the real estate hoarding corporate owners. As usual, these anti-tax wingnuts latch on to “why should I pay property tax (insert selfish reason here)” when the real reason is the real estate hoarding companies don’t want to pay property taxes on all the properties they’ve hoarded and are likely sitting empty. The same properties they used to price people out of homebuying, the same ones they used to increase rent super high because you can’t afford a home and will own nothing.
And of course anti-tax wingnuts don’t care that property taxes pay for schools, police, fire services,etc. (ain’t got no kids so why should I pay for school? My house has never burned down. Who needs cops when I got a Smith and Wesson?) and those things will still have to be paid for via some kind of tax, so in the end they still pay but the absentee owners get a huge tax break.
Is this some quiver-full shit?
A lot of the icons look interesting in a weird way. Allah.exe, a file folder that looks like it might say “Bloody Europeans” or something, Pakistan Zindabad (Long Live Pakistan), and oddly it’s all in English instead of Urdu or something.
The one step further that I didn’t see - the getting rid of /all and use of the algorithm to direct you to what they want you to see also offers the opportunity to direct you to what’s most profitable, and also to what suits Reddit’s owner’s narrative.
Does that mass include the containment and support structure for the balloon itself?
A lot of our critical infrastructure is connected. From power generation to water to sewer. All have been subject to hacking attempts, some successful.
I have also been saying for quite a long time that these things should not be connected in a way that they can be damaged or disabled by internet.
But y’know, put it all on the web and write controller software for centralized remote operation and monitoring so you can fire people and run the system with less people for more profit.
The colors of neutrality so you don’t actually live there and can leave it that way to sell it. The “real estate ad” color palette.
What an awful “premium” brand. They’re the same ones trying for subscription access to heated seats, remote start, or driver assistance features among others.
What a crap brand.
Thanks.
Thanks. I froze them for the winter, maybe not enough water. Better luck next time I guess.
Been trying to get these to grow from seed. No luck. Any tips?
I can’t believe people write anything expecting this administration to behave like a responsible adult. If anything trump’s buddies will short the stock while trump pushes it over the edge for huge profits and then hands the AI fools a bailout while they lay off all the employees with no compensation.