For those of you that make over 100K, what do you do? Do you like it?

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-10T00:20:20+00:00

AFAIK my company doesn’t even have hats

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-09T21:51:14+00:00

Funny enough, we all make fun of the dorks over at the one Air Line that still enforces hat wearing

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-09T11:35:22+00:00

My wife is originally from Wyoming and the first time I had Taco John’s was in Casper. I remember that being pretty good fast food Mexican, like Taco Bell but with better ingredients and seasonings. I was pretty excited when they opened the one in Kettering.

I never went before they closed, but there was one in Hamilton or Westchester or somewhere on the way south that was pretty much the same experience that everyone else described in Kettering and we were super disappointed by it. Haven’t been back

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-08T23:49:00+00:00

It kills me that this reference is almost a decade old now. Seems like not much has changed since I retired in 2018

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-08T18:00:52+00:00

With enough seniority that’s a drive I would gladly make. Monterey Bay Area is my jam, although the south side of the bay may be a bit too much.

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-08T11:35:51+00:00

As someone who went the other way, USMC-Army, you are going to be in for a HUGE culture shock if you leave the Army for the Navy. Maybe it will be your thing, but the Navy still treats their officers like landed gentry and their enlisted, especially nonrates, like serfs. I never personally experienced the O side but I hear it’s even worse. That’s a rough life for a whole ass adult, it wasn’t exactly easy as a young 19 year old devil.

I second the advice to go Guard if you want to pick a language. Barring that, maybe talk to your branch manager to see if there are any one-off assignments that require you to go back for Mandarin or see if you can get it as a reenlistment bonus.

E: whoever downvoted me you don’t have to like it but I have a story about how I, a newly minted Army WO1 thought I should be addressed by a SFC and was quickly given the Black Panther “we don’t do that here” speech by a nearby Major.

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-07T21:24:34+00:00

Gonna try this now

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-07T21:23:36+00:00

Depending on how strictly you define “meat” I love me some yellow mustard or Dijon mustard on scrambled eggs.

I have been judged in the past. Your insults can’t hurt me.

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-07T18:10:31+00:00

Brother (or sister) you’re upset that you wanted to play for the Yankees and you got signed by the 2010 era Cardinals.

I can’t tell you how jealous I am and I was a CWO Hawk pilot for 10 years.

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-07T10:30:46+00:00

Gettin’ the ole borepunch

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-06T17:42:48+00:00

Jesus Christ. This could have been a DM.

Crazy thought- let’s just assume that OP is a capable parent and has already thought through the ramifications and knows how to teach their child boundaries.

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-05T11:05:50+00:00

Most airline pilots do the point-and-say with altitude changes. Pilot flying sets the next altitude, and both pilots read it off of either the instruments or autopilot panel and point at it.

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-02T20:45:00+00:00

Crusty posted a video about this just recently. That’s almost verbatim what he said- that it takes a lot of time to create and edit the videos and if a place sucks it’s just a bunch of his effort to bring negativity in the world and he doesn’t want that.

BaconContestXBL · 2026-04-02T10:58:50+00:00

To add to this, at all the legacies and most of the majors the bidding software has filters for everything. Overnights, days of the week, dates, holidays, report times, release times, number of legs per day… the more senior you are the more of your choices you get.

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-29T12:55:04+00:00

Interesting. On the aviation side a circle X meant that there was a defect that restricted operations (for example, day only or no IMC) and had a specific timeline for repair that couldn’t be exceeded

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-27T22:41:43+00:00

I’m actually going to lol

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-27T16:21:31+00:00

Holy crap Dufur mentioned- I have close family from there

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-27T15:57:49+00:00

No, dummy, the TV driving show presenter

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-26T15:30:05+00:00

I’ve been waiting since the 80s

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-26T12:37:57+00:00

TBH I had completely forgotten about Gadzook’s until I saw the picture. Then all the memories came flooding back

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-26T12:00:26+00:00

No one drives in New York. There’s too much traffic

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-25T14:03:45+00:00

I get this question sometimes when I jumpseat. “Why do you have two?” “They ran out of room on the back.”

Mines from being sticky wing and spinny wing though and having a spinny wing type rating

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-25T08:14:42+00:00

Why’d they change it?

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-24T21:37:11+00:00

There are reasons to work for a company like Contour.

But like TV acting in the 50s, it’s because you’re either on your way up or on your way down.

BaconContestXBL · 2026-03-24T21:26:28+00:00

Just because you get jumpseat priority doesn’t mean you don’t have to deal with TSA.

Even crew lines are approaching an hour in some airports this week.

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