This sort of stuff just plain didn’t used to happen. I mean, c’mon man, how hard is it to keep a passenger shuttle from colliding with a towed airplane?
Could it be the effect of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and the consequential reduction in hiring, training, and performance standards?
After all, it IS Los Angeles.
What’s Going On At Airports? - a third commercial plane mishap within a month .. on the heels of last month’s close call at JFK Airport in NYC ... and a similar incident last Tuesday at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas..
In the JFK incident, an American Airlines plane crossed a runway without getting clearance from air traffic control, which prevented a Delta Air Lines flight from taking off..
In the Austin incident, a Southwest passenger jet came within 100 feet of colliding with a FedEx cargo plane, but a quick-thinking pilot averted the disaster.
The tug driver not paying attention to what is going on around him
“Could it be the effect of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and the consequential reduction in hiring, training, and performance standards?”
..or the effect of California legalizing the use of pot?
You hit the nail on the head.
When I hear young people mock “Karens” and use terms like “boomers” to describe older people (of both genders) to whom they can’t relate at all (many Karens are middle-aged or older), I point out to them that many of these are people who simply remember when everything was better/functioned more smoothly. As with the older animals in “Animal Farm” (who remember better though not perfect times under the original human owner), those memories pose a threat to those seek to “fundamentally transform” the US - so the Bolshevik media targets and marginalizes them. It isn’t just “dumb white guys” in commercials; plenty of commercials have non-white women schooling white women on various things.
The “diversity, equity, and inclusion” BS plays a role, but also understand there are far less Anglos/WASPs in today’s population (as a proportion of the whole), and it was their model and ethics that made this country great. There are less and less in the workplace today, and the effect can’t be concealed. Grim, but there is some job security if you live by that code; it seems (by the YouTube videos out there) these tech layoffs put a lot of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” people out on the street as those employers cut the fat.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion = Equal Incompetence
After all, it IS Los Angeles