Death by corporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), also known colloquially as ‘wokeism’, is unfortunately becoming a theme.
If you have been following the story of a missing deep water tourist submarine run by a company called OceanGate®, perhaps this part of the untold story might provide some ironic context for the current crisis.
“The search for a missing Titanic tourist submersible continued Wednesday as experts fear the watercraft may have only a day’s supply of oxygen left” (more).
The CEO of OceanGate, the company that has created a tourism industry around underwater exploration, is a man named Stockton Rush. Two years ago, Mr. Rush was interviewed about his company and how they operate; his outlook on the personnel he hired might explain the crisis.
According to Mr. Rush, he intentionally did not want to hire a certain kind of submariner expert for his corporate endeavor, because that would only bring ex-military submariners into the company. In his own words he explains how he did not want to hire “50-year-old white guys“, and instead preferred a more diverse and younger workforce to represent the operational face of the company. Diversity, equity and inclusion was the priority. VIDEO at 27:10, WATCH:
https://youtu.be/YH0qRx5eYkY?t=1630
Given the legal liabilities now present, the video will likely be scrubbed. However, there is a certain irony in the decisions around corporate human resources and operational priority, given the fact that all the rescue missions are being led by “50-year-old white guys.”
[…] U.S. and Canadian crews began searching for the underwater vessel Sunday after the 22-foot submersible, named Titan, lost contact with a support ship while carrying five people to the wreckage site of the Titanic. (more)
Grandma’s rules apply to further commentary. I digress.
I still go with my fav aunt saying. ….
If you Don’t have anything nice to say…come sit by me and talk real low.
I should be ashamed of myself. But my patience with the idiots , is non-existent.
Haha! Reminds me of the In Living Color skit – “I ain’t one to gossip, so you didn’t hear it from me!”
😂😂😂😂 love it!
Too soon?
Never! 😁
I agree, never.
Can’t deny it. That was funny.. in a Far Side kinda way. 😆
Those 50 year old white guys are Gen X. As a Gen X woman, a real one, we are a great generation in my opinion. We care about people and can make a personal judgment based upon if he or she is a crappy person. I think this guy is crappy with a Danger Will Robinson neon sign.
This CEO used a Playstation joy stick to be able to maneuver his sub.
There are a lot of ships that steer by joystick. They’re called azipods.
It’s far from a PlayStation joystick.
You should research that before you comment. They’ve been in use for decades.
DailyMail articles were saying it was a game console type controller.
Those game console type controllers, specifically the current gen systems, are very sophisticated pieces of equipment with two analog sticks, pressure sensitive buttons, and AI built in.
Too many comments are misrepresenting the sophistication of the controller.
I heard a past interview with the CEO yesterday in which the man said “Playstation joy stick”.
I understand crafts use azipods but the CEO specifically said Playstation joy stick. I would not have made the comment if I had not heard it from the guy’s mouth.
Maybe you should be a little less condescending.
Off the shelf Logitech game controller. $30 with lots of one star reviews
It was a PlayStation controller. Straight from the CEO’s lips.
No, in a video he calls it a Logitech controller. I don’t have a problem with that. The problem I have is the guy that said his trip was delayed 5 hours due to electrical problems, that the sub lost communications frequently, and pieces of the sub were zip tied in place.
Logitech is a long-time computer mouse and rollerball and joystick controller manufacturer
And these current gen “controllers” are more sophisticated than controls used to fly planes 20 years ago. It’s not the controller, it’s the engineering behind the sub.
In the video that I was listening to he definitely said Playstation. I was alone in my kitchen doing dishes so your telling me what he said in the video I was listening to is interesting. Are you a remote viewer with some kind of psychic power in which you knew some woman would comment upon the CTH board and your need to correct her? Good gravy.
I have several degrees and, although I do speak with engineers all day unless doing dishes and making my husband a meatloaf dinner in my kitchen alone while listening to videos, an engineering degree is not one of my Bachelor’s, or Master’s, or the PhD being pursued, I do make one heck of a meatloaf and I know I heard Playstation.
What was the average age/ethnicity of the passengers?
I have no idea. I do hope all are found alive regardless. Frankly this is something I have not followed closely.
Die for Die.
Mr. Rush also fired an engineer who said the submarine was not safe.
I didn’t see where the guy was an engineer, but, I’ll have to confirm that …
At 12,500 feet of depth nothing is safe.
The pressure that deep is 5,217 PSI —pounds per square inch.
For each square foot of surface area 12″ x12″=144 sq inches a total of 751,248 pounds of force is exerted….
AS if that weren’t enough, IIRC that far down, its REALLY freakin cold, as well.
Three degrees Celsius.
….good point….
The movie “The Abyss” when the goof ball Seal rides his submersible down the chasm and implodes cured me of my underwater exploration bug.
yeah, oxygen schmoxygen, one analyst said he fears the submersible “is flooded”
Flooded…at that depth and with carbon fiber means imploded….an explosion turned inside out…
The pressure is over 750,000 PSI per square foot….a standard 4’x8′ sheet of plywood is 32 square feet…
32sq ft x 750,000 PSI equals 24,000,000 pounds of force on 32 Sq Ft….
May as well be straddling a JDAM when it detonates.
More like being wrapped in JDAMs when they simultaneously explode…
Or the explosive charge which initiates critical mass in a nuke…
You can’t fix stupid. I read about the guy who had paid the downpayment of $10k but had bad feelings about it so bailed on the excursion. I bet he was a 50+ yo white guy.
I was on a multi-leg airline flight one time and on the ground at 1st stop we were informed we’d be delayed as their engineers troubleshot some kinda issue with how the cabin floor attached to the larger airframe
in the terminal, I had them re-book my next leg and abandoned that flight for an overnight hotel stay
just had a feeling …. major structural issues kinda give me a reason to pause, gnomesayin’ ?
Yup, diversity hires of 22-year old girls, 25 year old guys who surf in Iceland, or maybe someone who has enjoyed Clive Cussler novels do not have the hands-on experience and the story telling experience that 45-55 year old submariners have picked up over a 20-year career. Those diversity hires can train on simulators and game consoles for a few months and be just as good – LOL!
Maybe some of those experienced submariners might find you in time and be able to do something about your current situation.
Sure!Sign me up. I’ll get on your sinking tomato can with a diversity hire operator. Hey do you have one with a transvestite at the controls? That would be so cool.
Holy sh*t. Just listen to that clip!
Definitely an accident waiting to happen. “training is easy, almost like playing a video game!”, he says, with a big smile on his face.
Unfortunately, I doubt this CEO was on the sub this last trip?
Who knows, maybe – just maybe- he was smart enough to know he himself should *never* set foot on one of these things he manned up with a bunch of DEI hires?
Turns out, he IS on the sub!
Karma is a wonderful thing.
he is the pilot for this trip
the last trip
It is reported that he is on the vessel.
Actually, he is in the thing.
I was enlisted in the USN late 70’s/early 80’s…
Minesweeper….
We worked with the Naval Laboratory Fort Lauderdale/Port Everglades when remote underwater unmanned subs were being developed. The guys who built them ran their tests and whatnot then told the crew on the mess deck that if anyone wanted to operate them they were encouraged to participate to see how average people would do with the controls.
The task was for a team of two to take a rope to sunken boat and attach it to a cleat…one sub had a camera and the other a grapple so teamwork was required…it was fun and also funny to do and watch others do….
“Quit stirring up dust! I’m trying! Just put the dang rope on the cleat!”
And it was literally just like a video game…except for one thing…our bodies weren’t miles below crush depth with extremely limited rescue options.
”inspirational” is fine for Artists, and iPhone developers … although I find it statistically significant that 6 of my close friends have died of brain cancer (otherwise healthy people).
But I prefer “Experienced” and “Competent” when getting into an airliner. Although I suspect there were some “inspirational” engineers at Boeing who thought their software didn’t need pilot testing.
Heavy user of RF energy emitting devices here (from milliwatts to kilowatts), including cellular handsets back in the 90’s (as a RF engineer in the DFW MSA) and no cancers here. Just sayin …
….a reliably functioning pitot would have been nice…
Good points raised by this submarine veteran👇
Best analysis I’ve seen so far, thanks. What a terrible and predictable ending. Humans have been obsessed with the titanic for 110 years. This guys ego exploited and abused the souls of this tragic day in history.
Wait – WAIT! His analysis does NOT take into account they have dived on the Titanic before … I hate it when people do a video w/o knowing the facts. There are VIDEOS of their prior dives on the Titanic … and the “Titan” is the third craft they have designed/operated …
The hull contracts when diving and expands when surfacing. That’s a lot of stress on any material, and we don’t know enough about what the effects would be on carbon fiber in that situation. A tiny microscopic defect in the carbon fiber material may have been okay for a few dives, but would eventually lead to a failure.
Airplanes go through about the same process with pressurizing and depressurizing.
re: “The hull contracts when diving and …”
Non-sequitur; Does not address what I wrote.
And how many launches were there before the Columbia exploded?
Logic has failed you again.
DO I read this guy right? Does the guy in the video NOT understand they have dived with the Titan submarine on the Titanic site before? They have narrated videos of their prior dives, so this is no secret …
Not including overtime days…of which there are many…I have driven to work approx. 4000 times…
Never had a fender bender or breakdown which does not prove or disprove that I will not experience some issue Friday afternoon when I once again drive to work.
In fact, the more times I do it the higher the likelihood of an issue…plus I am not operating in extreme conditions which 12,500 feet below the ocean surface definitely is.
Non-sequitur, I think. Content producer in that video is missing key facts I think …
I think Old Bama Guy put one exactly dead center in the ten ring.
You think or you know?
No one knows yet….but I suspect that my opinion is a bit more informed than his…
Former submariner and current employment involves high pressure process…
So…I think
Expanding a bit….”carbon fiber” is not just carbon fiber….it’s also epoxy resin binder….
And the pressure at those depths is truly a fearsome beast….nearly incomprehensible…the slightest flaw while subjected to cumulative millions of PSI of pressure combined with the effects of numerous compressions/decompressions on the carbon fiber/resin compound is nearly guaranteed to degrade the integrity of any material including high quality steel…
Never mind the low temperatures….
I hope the crew lives and the rescuers are safe.
I think it’s funny he may die on the altar of diversity. Feel bad for the tourists. I’m thinking it may be unsafe to take any boat, plane, train these days.
I agree. The requirements for everything including doctors have been lowered to allow for more diversity. So if you need a doctor find an old one.
I hope the crew is saved. However, when one is exploring the oceans at 12K feet down with new technology, then you had darn well better put equality of opportunity ahead of equity and pick the very best performer for the job. In this case wokeism is dangerous and diversity, inclusion, and equity, DIE, may mean just that. With wokeism, equality of outcomes, and DIE expanding throughout the culture, will you know if your pilot, doctor, or lawyer, for example, is an equity hire or a performance hire? Hiring based solely DIE will inevitably lead to hiring or promoting unqualified candidates, and in many cases, this can lead to serious failures including death and destruction. It appears that the wokeism path has been chosen by many over common sense. There are already many examples of this today, most notably the “historic” figure KJP. Was DIE a factor in the OceanGate Titan sub disappearance as may be indicated by the mindset of CEO Stockton Rush?
OMG, this guy exactly echoes Robert Ballard–the guy who originally discovered the Titanic. He came to speak at the university for which I work. I was so excited, because I’ve loved Titanic lore since I was a kid. After the presentation, almost the first words out of Ballard’s mouth was, “I don’t hire white men. It is my responsibility to hire women and minorities”. No one prompted that statement, but he went droning on about how it was HIS company, and HE would make the decisions!
Robert Ballard came off as very hostile, possibly because he associated Mississippi with “Mississippi Burning”. I left his presentation NOT being a fan of Ballard’s, anymore.
Those intelligent morons that have lived insulated lives away from said minorities they love so much. Those types will be begging 50 year old white men to save them when things fall apart worse than South Africa .
Watching him babble incoherently over the credits of the first half-dozen episodes of Seaquest DSV did it for me.
He made less sense than their episodes’ “plots” did.
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Funny thing is, I am pretty sure Democrats controlled Mississippi when “Mississippi Burning” was supposed to take place..
Meh, not important to those who ride high horses.
I’m thinking so often that the insanity must lead to an explosion of common sense.
Has the vice been tightened so much that we are looking at decades and decades, if not centuries, before common human values again are the norm?
Please, someone, tell me something optimistic.
I can’t really tell you anything “optimistic”.
Just that most of this was predicted by the historian Arnold Toynbee, and two science fiction writers, Robert Heinlein and H. Beam Piper.
IMPO, we’re living in what Heinlein called “The Crazy Years”.
To Toynbee and Piper, that came before the Collapse of our existing civilization, which will likely be followed by an Interregnum of a few centuries before humanity bootstrap-hauls itself back up out of the mire.
Sorry.
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God is Good!
Just wait until the current diversity-accepted college students receive their diplomas to become practicing physicians.
This young generation doesn’t want to work. They call off and won’t work overtime. They have to be sponging off others to survive.
YEP!!
YEP YEP YEP.
There is a tipping point and we have got to be close.
Actually, I believe we have recently PASSED the tipping point,
Have you noticed an increase in the SPEED of “things” lately?
THAT is gravity kicking in: instead of us having to push AGAINST gravity, it is now exerting force to move things in our direction.
The pendulum always swings back with more and more velocity….
Boring 50 year old white guys” are why half the shit around you in our society continues to provide you the convenience and ease of civilization you were born into.
I’m all for celebrating everyone’s individual accomplishments and capabilities if they have them….but this weird disrespect for both wisdom and experience, coupled with some kind of almost imperially mandated demand to erase “white men” from almost every facet of society, and make them invisible social pariahs at best….doesn’t really impress me as progress goes.
I suspect he didn’t want experienced submariners because they were telling him a lot of things he just didn’t want to hear
“I suspect he didn’t want experienced submariners because they were telling him a lot of things he just didn’t want to hear”
BULLSEYE!
I’ll bet Mr. Diversity would give his right nut for some 50 year-old White guys right now.
Drink up, Stockton Rush. Fool.
USA Today updates (Some older white guys might be involved in the rescue attempts)
“Underwater noises were detected and rescue efforts were expanding Wednesday in the search for the missing submersible carrying five passengers to the Titanic wreckage site, a Coast Guard official said Wednesday. An expert submariner from the British Royal Navy, a team of French specialists on remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and more ships and underwater vessels were joining the search, said Capt. Jamie Frederick, the First Coast Guard District response coordinator, in a news conference Wednesday afternoon.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/21/missing-titanic-tourist-submarine-search-noises-live-updates/70341342007/
Sounds like some “international” 50 y. o. white guys coming to the rescue!
It’s 50 year old White Guys commanding the US and Canadian Coast Guard and Navy ships conducting the search and rescue.
I wonder if the CEO objects?
Aaaand… the most qualified person for a position on the Supreme Court just happened to be a black woman. True story.
I think I am picking up on your sarcasm.
In addition it brought a smile of irony to me.
Yes, the mind set is the same motivator in the case of Mr. Rush and the black woman. It isn’t the best and most qualified for the job that is most important, oh no, not that, it is far more important to virtue signal how morally superior those who are doing the hiring are. Unfortunately the marxist black woman on the Supreme Court is likely to facilitate far more deaths legislating from the bench than Mr. Rush in his submarine misadventure.
who couldn’t define what a woman is
“In his own words he explains how he did not want to hire “50-year-old white guys“, and instead preferred a more diverse and younger workforce to represent the operational face of the company. Diversity, equity and inclusion was the priority.”
Just sort of racism in reverse.
No. Racism is racism. It goes BOTH ways. Ask any white person (like me) who was denied employment at a state agency because I didn’t “check the right boxes”. THAT is racism.
And just think, our entire government and justice department is being run by diversity hires!
That actually explains a lot.
And we’re paying just as much to be suffocated by them
i’m starting to think an acceptable synonym for “diversity hire”
is “otherwise unemployable.”
Applicants seeking to join RAF described as ‘useless white male pilots’ in bid to hit ‘impossible’ diversity targets
https://news.sky.com/story/raf-recruiters-were-advised-against-selecting-useless-white-male-pilots-to-hit-diversity-targets-12893684
USA Today says: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush − who is on board the missing vessel − maintained the craft was safe, even “pretty much invulnerable,” he did not seek to hide that the vessel skirted established norms as it catered to wealthy thrill seekers.
Its in the category of experimental aircraft, of which there are a lot out there (many in kit form).
No disrespect _Jim, but not even close to being in the same category.
All aircraft were “experimental” in the beginning of manned-flight.
Experimental aircraft most certainly DO NOT “skirt the established norms” of aircraft design and engineering.
And these machines have been continuously developed over the last 120 years!
The OceanGate Titan is the first of its kind, and is therefore completely and utterly untested!
Live By Woke Rules…Die By Woke Rules!!!
re: “but not even close to being in the same category.”
Its still experimental. I don’t see where you have made your case there.
re: “skirt the established norms”
Someone’s opinion. Perhaps an informed opinion, but still an opinion.
The craft obviosly perfomed adequately on several previous dives down to the Titanic site – do you/did you know that? Some people are unawares of their previous expeditions to the site.
First: In your use, “…the category of experimental aircraft”, “experimental” refers to a regulatory category of aircraft, NOT a description of their testing and development maturity.
( see – https://www.eaa.org/eaa )
Second: It’s not my opinion, it’s easily verifiable fact. IF we “skirt the established norms” we’d be dying wholesale. You see, in aviation the established norms are what keeps us alive.
And while I have no experience with submarines, I’d bet it’s the same there as well.
That’s why in aviation we call the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR’s) “blood regs”, because they where developed at a very high cost, typically loss of life and limb.
And we learned long ago that it takes a hell of lot more ‘than a few times’ to adequately prove a design, so the testing we do is in accordance with this grim, hard earned knowledge.
Consider the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first jet airliner.
It flew great at first for about a year, but then they began to break-up in flight, and the entire fleet was grounded.
A seemingly insignificant design choice doomed the aircraft and all the souls who perished on them!
Sound familiar? A $30 dollar game controller as the only means of navigation more than 12,000 feet below the ocean surface?
That sounds like an IDIOTIC design choice to me.
And remember, at no time did de Havilland hire according to a persons plumbing or complexion!
So basically “unsinkable”—like the Titanic.
Well now they sure are getting their bucket load of thrills. As an ex-submariner it is sadly not a fun way to end one’s life.
Hoping and praying for a miracle.
Well, they were taking a look at a vessel that was “unsinkable”, so…
This ceo clown is one of a few people having a worse day than I am. Dealing with the second broke leg on a greyhound in two years, and thank God this one may not be fatal, this 60 something white guy with a very fancy engineering degree and a pilot’s license wishes to the Lord God Almighty that there were some 50 yr old white guys left in Veterinary medical practice.
as a licensed veterinary technician, I am sorry to hear about your greyhound. And I can attest to the changes in vet medicine, for sure!
Oh, I so feel your pain. I had the absolute worst experience with more than one veterinarian, just recently. Lost my cat, after more that $2,000 in “tests” that those nincompoops couldn’t even interpret correctly, never mind that they just did not have ANY intuition whatsoever. The vet industry hung itself in all the Covid BS, and I’m afraid the field will never recover.
I will never have another pet, as I cannot rely on such lack of expertise for the health of my animal. 💔
Next Joint Chiefs Chair Wants White Male Officers to be a Minority
Milley was bad, Brown will be much worse.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/next-joint-chiefs-chair-wants-white-male-officers-to-be-a-minority/#.ZFzzXa-aLsU.mailto
Movement is now underway way to stop young white men from joining the military:
White recruits will be targeted when they are within a system as powerless junior enlistees. NCOs and Commissioned Officers trained to not only promote non-White racial categories, but also trained to hate White people, will undoubtedly look for ways to exert vengeance upon sitting ducks within the E1-E3 ranks. Such vengeance will lead to unjust Dishonorable Discharges that will ruin the lives of young White men.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dixieonthes/anti-military-recruitment-understanding-crt
GrandsonIL just made Sgt – Stationed @ Fort
LibertyBragg. He is *leaning* toward re-enlistment. They have a one year old and am praying he changes his mind. SIL will help him transition into civilian life with job offer.Not sure if I should forward this article to him, which is so depressing (but true).
I refuse to call it Ft. Liberty.
Tough choice.
How many ‘woke’ wealthy people will perish at the hands of Mr Rush’s wokeness? Or in fairness, was Mr Rush wanting people to think OceanGate was like the reality show ‘Below Deck’? Even Below Deck makes sure to have a experienced and seasoned Captain. What a shame.
This line makes me think of Jordan Peterson… and his famous debates about diversity, and stating that they never demand diversity in brick laying, or lineman work… the hard, hot/freezing and dangerous jobs.
“…given the fact that all the rescue missions are being led by “50-year-old white guys.””
And thank you Sundance for your expertise in recovery efforts after hurricanes!!
Amazing that people signed up for this. I guess they were hoping for big bragging rights.
God tells me to pray for all souls and to love my enemies. I hope they are rescued. But not looking good. Hubris got the best of them.
While DEI is foolish, as are many of the (possibly criminal) decisions made by the CEO, these are human lives (including Stockton’s), I would suggest prayer at this time.
Disclaimer: I worked with Stockton in F-15 radar flight test in the 80s, we shared an interest in general aviation and were friends at the time.
From http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/06/21/we-all-live-in-a-rainbow-submarine/
The controller –
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/subcontroller.jpg
Stockton Rush sleeping with the fish: INSPIRING
If it ends up that they’re doomed I don’t feel nearly as bad knowing that there’s at least one liberal on board .
I’m sure he would like to be rescued by some “50-year-old white guys”
with US Navy submarine rescue experience.
Mr. Rush looks like a fifty year old white guy to me.
Perhaps another case of a self loathing leftist.
I agree with mike, I hope he and his company are litigated into oblivion.
Additionally, I do have to wonder what motivates one to spend a ridiculous amount of money to risk their life touring an underwater grave site.
61 yo
A quick perusal of OceanGate’s website (About Us) and then a search of LinkedIn for OceanGate employees is pretty interesting.
First, all the management is 50+ white guys. The Board of Directors is too, except one female.
The employees are different though. What the CEO meant when he said he didn’t want to hire “50 year old white guys,” was that he wanted to hire 20-something blonde chicks.
Well, I’m sure you are inspired as your diverse company has sent you and four other people to a cold, watery grave most likely. As I said on another site, it boggles my mind that “diversity” was more important to this guy than competence and experience. Diversity is destroying this one great nation.
Sounds like the CEO of OceanGate would have pride T-shirts emblazoned with the participates name to hand out and a six-pac of Bud-Lite on board to celebrate their trip to the Titanic.
How long until they blame President Trump?
Could you imagine how bad things would go with people who think men can get pregnant and hundred’s of different genders walk the planet OMG .
Come on guys, you know if they had more diversity, inclusion and equity they would be laughing at the bottom of the sea! They didn’t do it enough. And Trumps fault.
(I’m being sarcastic, but lets just see how they spin this one. Oh that’s right, can’t speak about it….look shiney!)
Wow. He openly state (paraphrase) that they purposely did not hire people who were super duper experts in submarines. He hired people who were experts in aviation and then they took those aviation skills and applied them to submarines (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???!!!!)
He pretty much wanted to “reinvent” the Submarine Industry by hiring people who were not experts in the Submarine Industry.
There was an old story about an ensign who transferred from submarines to naval aviation.
His reason?
It occurred to him that while what goes up must come down, what goes down may not necessarily always come up.
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Takeoff is an option….landing is not…
Conversely….
Sounds like a Harvard MBA.
Uses all the right “buzz” words.
One person who took this underwater adventure and survived is Mike Reiss, a producer, and writer for The Simpsons.
He recalled how the waiver mentioned “death” three times on the first page.
Where are the ballast tanks?
Death by your own petard.
Apparently, woke passengers do not perform due diligence….
Death by stupidity
…and extreme pressure with very low temperatures….
My first thought was perhaps he was just rationalizing because he couldn’t find any 50 year old white ex-military submariners who would be willing to get in that contraption. So he hired young and inexperienced people who didn’t know any better?
….hmmm….didn’t think of that…
Could be….
“Death by corporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), also known colloquially as ‘wokeism’,……………now commonly referred to as Suicide by Stupidity…..
Prayers for the crew. Matters not their outlook on life, nobody deserves their current fate.
“Matters not their outlook on life,..”
I disagree. Their outlook on life, is at the very heart of the matter.
As the embedded video clearly shows, this CEO easn’t HIDING the fact he was hiring unqualified, inexperienced crews, while purporting to have experienced crews,..which even if he HAD, those on the shipsshould have done due dilligence, but he was openly CHAMPIONING it.
“Hey, because I believe in DIVERSITY, I am going to have Joe Biden do BRAIN SURGERY on me, with John Fetterman assisting!
And then, Fetterman will pilot the plane, with Joe as co-pilot, and their going to fly me over the North pole!”
No, saying “it matters not their outlook in life” is opening the foor to sbandoning the concept of any personal responsibility.
At a certain level of stupidity, you just have to embrace the concept of “the Darwin awards”, with first prizes to those who clean up the gene pool, by removing themselves from it, and honorable mentions to those who thru stupidity, render themselves sterile, so at least they can’t piss in the pool.
And just think that the FAA is big on air traffic controllers being diversity hires over qualified deserving people.
Makes you wonder why so many close calls on the runway huh.
Idk about all airlines but ours is deeeeep in the diversity culture and we are always putting out unnecessary fires. I’m not saying gays or trans don’t work most do but like an obese person there is a sickness that always permeates their decisions. Just leave it out and get on with your life.
As an aviation whistleblower attorney I hear a lot. And everyone who knows what is really happening wonders why there are not more accidents already. What I can tell you is that there are plenty of ‘incidents’ and close calls and all the signs of an Organizational Accident like the Challenger.
I think the biggest problem is that the C-suite managers, execs, legal officers and even Sr. VPs of Safety honestly do not have a clue how or why things work — safely. They really do not understand the connection between cutting and cutting on safety, training, maintenance, and spending instead of fluff and PR (which temporarily boosts stock price and ‘image’ points). One major US carrier recently placed a female in the previously well respected position of Sr. VP of Safety in charge of SMS for the entire carrier. Unlike her predecessors she is not a pilot, aeronautical engineer and has no military or flight experience. Neither is she a mechanic or dispatcher – she did not even major in ‘aviation management’ somewhere. She has a mediocre degree in communications from a middling school, and worked as a TV reporter before moving to the FAA PR department. But – hey – she has a great hairdo and will look wonderful on TV expressing ’empathy’ after the crash. This is the same major carrier which closed their engineering department and outsources maintenance to third world countries with interests adverse to the US. Never mind the FAA — they bought into the self-regulating concept years ago, and after the Boeing 737 Max scandals only changed it back (partially) for aircraft manufacturers — not operators. But boy does everyone have the colors flying and the headlines gobbling up the ‘Pride’ nad other PR events.
Same for airlines and their diversity hiring for pilots. Unknown diversity hires for controllers and pilots along with the forced jabs are exactly why I will never get on an airplane again.
Fly Volaris. Awesome Mexican airline. A no b.s. company and country!! Viva Mexico..
I do not advocate for the abandoning of the concept of personal responsibility. I’m simply offering compassion to those in this world who sometimes get in a little over their heads. And there but for the grace of God go I.
Our very survival depends on the outlook of life mattering.
We depend on the people who package our food to know what they are doing and not kill us.
The people who design the cars we drive the houses we live in, everything we take for granted every day some one some where is behind it.
And they better stand by their work because it matters whether or not they know what they are doing and have the education and expertise.
There people who quite possible had more money than brains are now paying the highest price any one ever payed for not checking on the creds of the guys behind this business.
The CEO was bragging about not hiring people who knew what they were doing.
A profound difference between philosophical ideology and competence in a complicated skill set. The CEO deserves our wrath for endangering the lives of others. The unfortunate fools at the bottom of the ocean deserve our compassion for their plight.
Just rearrange the letters and you have DIE. How ironic!
How appropriate, lol.
I don’t know who said it (I think Michael Savage) “Diversity is perversity.”
Lowering standards just makes the world more dangerous and stupid people more entitled because they got a Participation Award for a Degree.
Perversity is our stench!
“Perversity is our stench” = “Biden-ing”