Never a truer comment
Penguin said:
What's with "yeah, it's pretty dumb"? We were all new here once and were excited to participate in an active thread. Not to mention API has experienced some big changes recently. Maybe the guy just wants up to date info.
Penguin hit it on the head. Probably from my lack of direction, and busy with my cubicle work with the shoes, but regardless, hammering on the new guy/gal is going to
stop, and stop now.
I consider myself pretty damn salty (maybe I should borrow Zab's salty avatar?), but even I have questions that need to be answered, and you sure as hell don't see the really senior (read senile old farts) bubbas around here come ****ting on me for asking, to what to them is a common, nub-ish, and probably stupid/uninformed question.
So, let's play nice, help the new guys and gals out with their questions, welcome them to the site, and show them that we are as cool as we think we are, and not the tools that they think from a "dude, that was stupid" post. The one and only goal of this site is to help the next group on. I have been helped, and have spent a lot of time helping a bunch of you out there as you have gone from college student to jet jockey, helo driver or prop bubba.
If you don't like the post, resist the urge to increase your post count, and make us as a community and profession look bad. This is probably a knee jerk reaction to the recent flooding of high school kid question, how can I get jets, and what are my chances? These are all legitimate questions from someone that WANTS to be where we are! We ALL sweated service selection, primary selection, the NAMI whammy, and tubing an API test, and god knows what other hurdles throughout our career, becuase they keep on coming.
I am not calling names and singling people out. What I am doing is standing (ok sitting at a computer typing) in front of my peers, and some hopefuls, some of which WILL be in the wardroom with us someday, and telling you the pendulum of sarcasm and sh!tting on the new poster is stopping now. I will take this personal, and make this ugly if it persists, to the length of clipping moderator priviledges, and if continues, deleting accounts. I doubt it will come to that, but I am making my intentions known.
Once again, probably all stems from lack of direction, or supervision on my part. My apologies to the next generation of aviators, who are coming here looking for answers on how to make it to their Winging, and the Coveted Wings of Gold. We will do better.
Purdue Jones, sorry for the threadjack, but that needed to be said.
John
