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No one wants to regulate better service because prices are going to go massively up. They will regulate safe service (and they do! It's a huge part of what's causing everything to gently caress up, because both the airlines and Transport Canada do take issues like crew fatigue very seriously), but the fact of the matter is that all the things that build resiliency in the system cost a lot of money that very few people want to spend. It's extra equipment at airports, pilots and other crew members and ground staff getting paid to sit on reserve, it's aircraft that just sit empty on the ground in case something breaks somewhere (or sometimes fly around empty to minimize dispatch time -- UPS does this, for example). Think about it like JIT logistics: it works great, and very efficiently... until it doesn't. And when one thing goes wrong, a bunch of poo poo is going to go wrong. You need to have slack in the system, or one or two big storms and maybe some sick calls can cause the entire schedule to collapse. You can absolutely say "yes, that's a great idea, make the airlines do it" but the consequence is that air travel is going to get a lot more expensive. If you need to get somewhere no-questions-asked at any price, it looks like a great idea. When it massively increases the cost of discretionary travel, it looks a lot less attractive to most people.
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 01:13 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2024 12:25 |
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Albino Squirrel posted:I agree that it is in large part a lack of regulation enforcement, but I assure you Australia's air industry is just as hosed as ours. They don't even have weather to blame for most of their cancellations. At least the news there is talking about how bad their rehiring has gone. I mean I was just down in Australia hopping around a bunch of cities for work, and everything was running way better than it does here generally, let alone the tire fire that our airports have been this summer.
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 01:44 |
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Went to Montreal to see my family and started feeling a little funny last night, tested this morning... positive. Wife tested, positive, my dad.. positive, mom, positive, my son, positive.. What an attack rate
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 01:50 |
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https://twitter.com/Cooper4SAE/status/1606436192936943616?t=WUwvb4PiI2s9CocSI25FEw&s=19 Oh good, everyone's favourite haunted ventriloquist dummy is wishing us a happy holidays
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 06:23 |
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EngineerJoe posted:Went to Montreal to see my family and started feeling a little funny last night, tested this morning... positive. Wife tested, positive, my dad.. positive, mom, positive, my son, positive.. That's how it happened to my family, 6 of us caught it at once.
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 07:47 |
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DaysBefore posted:Coming to your backyard soon! I would have gone for Donnie Darko, but you won this one. Snuffman fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Dec 27, 2022 |
# ? Dec 27, 2022 08:37 |
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Albino Squirrel posted:https://twitter.com/Cooper4SAE/status/1606436192936943616?t=WUwvb4PiI2s9CocSI25FEw&s=19 57 seconds 1.5 blinks. Just like a completely normal human adult male person. 🤖
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 13:53 |
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Yep, we lucked out nicely. Drove down to Quebec on Thursday (day early) to avoid the storm. Came back yesterday and it was also totally fine, with some periods of relatively heavy snow. My wife did break a wiper blade while scraping the windshield and it fell off while we were driving but it ended up being a-okay.
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 14:54 |
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/red-deer-labour-shortage-business-1.6693680quote:Rollins says it seems like they're hiring and firing people on a regular basis. Some people don't work out, while some others get hired but don't show up. Is there a world's smallest violin emoji. Should we figure out why everybody quits or is fired after 3 days? No, it is the lack of people to churn through that is hurting us.
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 22:09 |
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Albino Squirrel posted:https://twitter.com/Cooper4SAE/status/1606436192936943616?t=WUwvb4PiI2s9CocSI25FEw&s=19 lol but really what is wrong with this guy though
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 22:26 |
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Late stage Conservatism
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 22:49 |
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Sadly there is no cure.
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# ? Dec 27, 2022 23:52 |
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It looks more like congenital conservativism than late stage conservativism.
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 00:27 |
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Bargain Bin Hans Gruber
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 00:33 |
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Mister Speaker posted:Bargain Bin Hans Gruber This was my first thought but even the bargain bin of Hans Grubers has to maintain some sort of his charm instead of whatever fleshbot this idiot is.
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 00:52 |
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Speaking for the airline industry, they lost a lot of experienced people during the pandemic. You had Ops and Crews with a few years under their belt let go, and a lot of them retrained and a lot of them retired. So you lost a lot of soft capacity, people who knew the slight nuances of the industry and could spot problems before they became problems. The airlines figured everybody would just sit waiting to come back like a lovely boyfriend who didn't think their ex would move on
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 01:36 |
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Albino Squirrel posted:Oh good, everyone's favourite haunted ventriloquist dummy is wishing us a happy holidays Both impressed that AI deep fakes are getting this good, and that some people couldn't be assed to do a short holiday greeting. EngineerJoe posted:Went to Montreal to see my family and started feeling a little funny last night, tested this morning... positive. Wife tested, positive, my dad.. positive, mom, positive, my son, positive.. We've been pretty careful, and only met with one other family. One kid brought home the stomach flu, and all eight of us were puking and squirting out of our asses for five days. It was horrible, but I guess it could've been worse.
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 01:49 |
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Yep, we've mostly been careful, all 6 of us have never had covid before.
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 01:53 |
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Testikles posted:Speaking for the airline industry, they lost a lot of experienced people during the pandemic. You had Ops and Crews with a few years under their belt let go, and a lot of them retrained and a lot of them retired. So you lost a lot of soft capacity, people who knew the slight nuances of the industry and could spot problems before they became problems. The airlines figured everybody would just sit waiting to come back like a lovely boyfriend who didn't think their ex would move on I mean, that's an issue, but the far bigger issue is that everything is being run with such minimal slack in the system that failures cascade very easily because there is no redundancy. Is that because they lost people? Well, yeah, maybe it is, to a point. But it's also because they really, really don't want to hire/train/pay their way out of that situation. The most experienced crews and ops managers could not have fixed this problem under the operational constraints. If you don't have a crew schedule that can soak up delays, the law will come and gently caress you. If the crews are timed out, they're timed out, whether they have 20 years under their belt or finished indoc yesterday. From the flight crew perspective, the options are: hire and pay people to sit on reserve, and have airplanes sitting on the ground ready to be repositioned, and accept that cost, or accept that occasionally the schedule will collapse as it has done recently. No airline will act alone to do the former because no one would buy a ticket that reflects the real cost of that redundancy when other airlines choose not to, and no government will regulate them to do so because it would mean presiding over the greatest increase in the cost of air travel ever seen. There is a third option: subsidy. In practice, this would mean an incredibly robust domestic network (paid for with tax dollars, but I consider that acceptable) and a bunch of wankers who picked the cheapest option to get to Cancun still bitching a blue streak when Sunwing provides the ultra-low-cost service that goes along with their ultra-low-cost fares.
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 03:30 |
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Indolent Bastard posted:57 seconds 1.5 blinks. Just like a completely normal human adult male person. 🤖 I left the sound off and just watched his face. It was.. unnerving. Hope it's just my imagination running wild.
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 03:44 |
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lol but it literally looks like he's conciously thinking about how to position his lips to form words. like his mouth is powered by actuators or something. wtf
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 03:59 |
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Powershift posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/red-deer-labour-shortage-business-1.6693680 Right, if they just keep quitting or not showing up you might want to look into that. People generally don't bother to get a job that they're going to leave in 3 days just for a laugh. The fact is that there are businesses out there in every industry that don't have staffing issues. Is it magic?
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 14:39 |
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I think we need another small business consultant to pop in and inform us how it's basically impossible to hire and retain people due to Liberal social programs
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 15:40 |
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Testikles posted:Speaking for the airline industry, they lost a lot of experienced people during the pandemic. You had Ops and Crews with a few years under their belt let go, and a lot of them retrained and a lot of them retired. So you lost a lot of soft capacity, people who knew the slight nuances of the industry and could spot problems before they became problems. The airlines figured everybody would just sit waiting to come back like a lovely boyfriend who didn't think their ex would move on I was led to believe staff are an interchangable resource, a fungible comodity. Was this wrong??
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 16:53 |
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infernal machines posted:I think we need another small business consultant to pop in and inform us how it's basically impossible to hire and retain people due to Liberal social programs Is Methanar still probed?
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 17:42 |
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NZAmoeba posted:I was led to believe staff are an interchangable resource, a fungible comodity. Was this wrong?? Ever since the woke mind virus hit, workers are legally considered non-fungible tokens.
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 17:51 |
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Pleads posted:This was my first thought but even the bargain bin of Hans Grubers has to maintain some sort of his charm instead of whatever fleshbot this idiot is.
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 17:59 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:Is Methanar still probed? Unfortunately, no.
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# ? Dec 28, 2022 20:35 |
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-shaw-merger-competition-tribunal-decision-1.6700146 "The Competition Tribunal has dismissed an application from Canada's competition watchdog seeking to block Rogers Communications' proposed $26-billion purchase of Shaw Communications, clearing a path for the deal to go through." So we don't even have to pretend that telecom is a big fix? Cool.
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# ? Dec 30, 2022 17:31 |
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I was gonna say, isn't there laws against this? But I guess, lol,
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# ? Dec 30, 2022 17:39 |
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quote:The decision says the deal, which includes the sale of Shaw-owned Freedom Mobile to Quebecor-owned Videotron, would not likely prevent or lessen competition substantially. At minimum, this means that you can't get discounts on Shaw Mobile for being a Shaw Internet customer, which raises my cell bill from $10/month to $15. Assuming it stops there (it won't). Well, it was a good run while it lasted.
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# ? Dec 30, 2022 18:05 |
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"Less competition would not prevent or lessen competition substantially" I mean, I suppose. You can't really go below zero meaningful competition.
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# ? Dec 30, 2022 19:10 |
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Oxyclean posted:"Less competition would not prevent or lessen competition substantially" Yeah, that standard seems somewhat flawed: "There is already no competition, and this won't reduce that any further..."
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# ? Dec 30, 2022 20:13 |
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Canada was built on monopolies. It’s a part of our heritage™️
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# ? Dec 30, 2022 21:14 |
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The Final
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# ? Dec 31, 2022 01:50 |
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Videotron can suck my entire rear end in a top hat, the thieving shits. Pretending selling something to them is providing adequate competition is perverse. Videotron should be crushed into tiny bits, which are then buried in piss and poo poo, they are the only one of the telecoms that legit did not return money that they owed me. The rest only took money "legitimately".
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# ? Dec 31, 2022 02:08 |
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Rogers was forcing their customers to pay Hezbollah's cell phone bills
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# ? Dec 31, 2022 03:51 |
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COPE 27 posted:Rogers was forcing their customers to pay Hezbollah's cell phone bills A novel approach to BDS
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# ? Dec 31, 2022 03:53 |
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COPE 27 posted:Rogers was forcing their customers to pay Hezbollah's cell phone bills Wait what?
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# ? Dec 31, 2022 03:58 |
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# ? Jun 7, 2024 12:25 |
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Yeah to be clear it's the coolest thing any Canadian telecom ever did but it would really suck if you got hit with the bill Some whistleblower even recorded quote:A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step -- and so it was that law professor Susan Drummond's long, strange trip into the world of wireless security, where she learned that a terrorist organization had appropriated Ted Rogers' cellphone number, was launched by the arrival of a phone bill for $12,237.60. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cellphone-security-fraud-leaves-customer-with-big-bill-1.541317 COPE 27 fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Dec 31, 2022 |
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