"Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote in message
ink.net...
Of course a lot of the people I've known in aviation worked daily in it's
most dangerous environment. When you work in this arena, you have a
tendency to learn early on what's important and what isn't important in
life. The back stabbing and nit picking found at almost every level of the
outside professional work place for the most part doesn't exist with these
people.

Forgive me if this comes out wrong, bit this reminds me of a few things I
discussed with my wife. She had problems with a few acquaintances that
imposed themselves as friends. They would set lunch dates with her and give
her grief if she did not accept or would cancel. Each meeting she would
find draining because these "friends" would complain about their lives
endlessly.

So I had to tell her a little thing I learned years ago that helped change
things, "Just because the phone rings doesn't mean you have to answer it."
This helped me when I was an Auxiliary police officer here in New York. An
unarmed volunteer in a very real police uniform walking the beat in Queens.
There you learn early on that just because a person is yelling profanity
doesn't mean you have to yell back.
You learn that flashing a badge doesn't mean squat to a person that is just
plain ****ed off, and also that no amount of reasoning will stop a person
that wants to rant. Working in this capacity one would think "well, real
cops have it easier because they have guns and people respect that." Well,
that isn't true. They have it worse.
You would think you could tell a person while in a police uniform that
"there is a power line down ahead, you can't drive down this road," that
they would not yell at you " I HAVE to get down that road. Nope.
You know what works best there? You say, "well you can't" and you direct
your attention elsewhere. They mutter and drive off. Arguing just prolongs
the incident.
So,

This brings me to my way if dealing with Usenet and it has a lot to do with
what you say here;
"you have a tendency to learn early on what's important and what isn't
important in life"

ignoring the knuckleheads "phone calls" is the first step to getting
something from usenet besides a headache.


--
Dave A
Aging Student Pilot




"Roger" wrote in message
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On Mon, 02 May 2005 16:08:12 GMT, "Dudley Henriques"
dhenriques@noware .net wrote:

Actually, being retired, I really never give it a thought either way
since I
won't be flying again. It's apparently only a big deal for a few
specific
morons on Usenet. My family, my friends, my professional associates past
and
present, and indeed even my country's government at the highest level
seem
to be quite happy with things just the way they are.
Only on Usenet will one find the idiots an issue like this one will
attract.

Oh, they exist IRL as well, but they can't hide behind anonymous
signatures so they are less prone to expressing themselves. It's far
more hazardous there. :-)) So they tend to talk among themselves
where they might find some one who will listen.

Yep, true enough, but believe it or not, (maybe I'm some kind of
exception), but most of the people I've known professionally were straight
shooters.
For the most part, it's a no nonsense, performance based world, and bull
**** walks there faster than any place else I've been to in my life.
Sort of the opposite of Usenet I guess :-))
Dudley