u/besttavern25

New to msfs 24 and picked it up for ps5. Enjoying career mode so far. Got a few certifications and started out near LAX and have since started my own company doing light cargo.

My only plane is a Cessna 172 skyhawk and I usually can take off and gain altitude with no issues in California and even Florida but for some reason, my plane can never gain altitude in the mid west. I start missions in Nebraska or Oklahoma and even at full throttle, I can’t reach past 70 knots most of the time even with flaps and once airborne, I struggle just to gain altitude. I keep getting the stall warning and often crash into the hills or mountains because I can’t gain altitude.

Again I’m trying to slowly gain altitude but cant pitch up too much because my airspeed keeps hovering around 50 knots so I get the stall warning and eventually crash.

What am I doing wrong?

What are some of the weirdest co workers you’ve had? I used to work with a person who ended every conversation with the company’s catch phrase. Let’s just say the catch phrase was something like “always and forever” so no matter if talking to me in person, over teams or in an email, they’d end it with the catch phrase.

“Ok we’ll see you tomorrow.” I would say.

“Take care. Always and forever.” They’d say.

Years ago I took a job at my aunts restaurant since I was jobless with no leads. My cousin also worked there as the assistant manager and completely abused this. He basically did and said whenever he wanted since he knew his mom would rather see her business tank than ever discipline him.

I was usually given Fridays off but one year during Thanksgiving, my aunt asked me to skip my usual Friday off since they were going to be very short staffed day after Thanksgiving. I actually thought about my cousin and decided to do the unselfish thing and come in. As an army veteran, being selfless was something that was drilled into us.

The next Friday I go in and my cousin spots me as he’s coming in, he immediately stops in his tracks, turns around and leaves. At first I thought he may have forgotten something but I soon see him leave in his car. Turns out he saw me and decided that he’d rather go Black Friday shopping, leaving me to care for the entire place alone.

I worked non stop for the next 9 hours. I was nearly delirious by the time things slowed down just enough for me to try and eat a quick meal. As I sat and ate, a customer came in and my aunt, who was covering me, didn’t come out quickly enough. He saw me nearby eating, recognized me as a worker, tapped me on the shoulder, and said “I’ll take a house special with a tea.”while sitting down. No excuse me. No “hey sorry to bother you”.

I was angry by now so I decided to place his order in and say “ok sir I’m technically on lunch but I’ll go ahead and place your order for you real quick.”

“Ask me if I care.” He answers not making eye contact with me, waving me off as he pulled out his phone. I felt like dirt at that point. A few hours later, we had closed and I was mopping the floor as my cousin finally shows up. He shows up with gaggles of bags and immediately heads to the back.

“Look at all this cool stuff I got today!” He excitedly yells as he pulls out all the different things he spent the day shopping. My aunt, instead of scolding him, happily started going through all his haul and commenting on how nice they looked.

That’s when I felt at my lowest. I texted my friend that I was sorry but I couldn’t take life anymore. I had actually went to find some Clorox bleach and was thinking of how to mix it with soda so it wouldn’t hurt.

However my friend called me and wouldn’t let me hang up. They drove to me and we spent the next 2 hours talking. She eventually talked me out of it. I quit less than a year later and although my cousin mocked me and said I’d come crawling back soon, I eventually got a nice paying job and the restaurant soon closed after that.

It was the darkest time of my life and I’m thankful I decided that my time wasn’t up yet.

What’s a time where you didn’t agree with your managers and they simply tried to end the argument by “pulling rank” or basically using the “I’m the boss I want it this way” excuse? How did it eventually turn out?

My example would be my aunt who owned a small restaurant that I worked at. The health inspector gave us several warnings about doing things to code such as how to thaw meat out properly or that prepackaged food needs to be kept under a heat lamp. My aunt being an old school type of personality ignored all these saying “they don’t know what they’re talking about” and thawed meat by just having it sit out in the sink for hours and keeping prepackaged food near the register so customers saw it more easily. I warned her that the health inspector explicitly said she couldn’t do that and she simply told me to “let it go it’s MY restaurant.” She was shut down twice as a result and eventually sold the restaurant.

Edit: I know there’s a type o in the title but I can’t edit it so let’s just run with it.

My friend Liz has asked me for help for years. It can be as simple as advice or as big as borrowing money. However with her recent pregnancy, I’ve decided that I’m done giving advice as she never takes it.

She first told me she wanted to leave her job as a teachers aide as it didn’t pay well and her new managers were demanding and critical of her. I advised her to update her resume and start looking into a new job. If she wanted out then to put in a two weeks notice. She quit two days later.

She quickly found a new job doing construction administration despite having no experience. Against my advice, she took the job. 4 months later she again started to complain about the workload and how inexperienced she was to handle the job duties and intended to quit. I advised her to again set up a LinkedIn and start putting in a two weeks notice. She quit the following Monday and wrote an email criticizing the company. She said she did to stand up to them.

She’s currently involved in two lawsuits right now. One is against the hospital that botched her daughter’s hip surgery. I normally would care but the sheer amount that Liz asked me to research was insane. She asked me to research malpractice laws while I reminded her that I wasn’t a lawyer. The second lawsuit she’s in is her suing her old employer, the construction firm for sexual harassment. She later told me that the vice president hired her basically because he was trying to get into her pants.

I advised her to focus more on finding steady work that she enjoys right now rather than suing everyone. She defends herself by saying that these people did illegal things to her and that she had to do it.

Lastly Liz has been living with her boyfriend Will for a year. Despite this, she complains daily to myself or her sister that Will is controlling, abusive and negative. She regrets moving in with him and wants to move out. I told her that she needs to makes plans to be on her own and the worst thing she can do is get pregnant with him. Well, she recently announced her pregnancy to the whole family with great excitement. No one in the family is happy with this and honestly find it offensive that she’s now painting this picture that Will is an amazing man who she wants to spend her life and what a great and supportive man he is with while most of us (including me) has been the ones to try to support her for years and have barely gotten a thank you.

So at this point, I’ve decided to stop helping or advising Liz. She recently asked why I’ve been so distant and I told her straight up that I didn’t want anything to do with her. She seems confused by this but I told her that it doesn’t matter what I say because she’s going to do what she wants to regardless.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink.

Never liked going to the dentist and was even more terrified at the idea of anyone taking a scalpel anywhere near my mouth. Ask me anything.

I have a co worker named Calvin and we are in engineering services. We also have a co worker named Xavier. Xavier is his legal name and is the name he prefers to go by however Calvin continues to call him Javier by mistake. I don’t think this is done as a joke either because Calvin has called him Javier on conference calls. This has caused confusion among other team members as they often ask “who’s Javier?” And no we don’t have an actual Javier that works with us.

I work directly with Calvin and remind him constantly that his name is Xavier and not Javier. Although they sound similar, he should try to call him by his correct name. It’s gotten to the point where Calvin sometimes asks if “Javier” has quit because he can’t find his contact when typing his name into Microsoft Team. I then explain that he needs to type in Xavier.

I don’t even think this is a fun nickname he’s given Xavier but a genuine inability to not remember his name. Not a huge issue but still kind of surprised how he hasn’t caught on yet.

Has anyone else ever had similar or a funny experience with co workers names being mispronounced or misnamed?

My friend Liz has been living with her boyfriend Will for nearly a year now. During Mother’s Day weekend, she announced to us at a bbq that they were expecting a baby. A few people went to congratulate them but in reality very few of us are excited for this.

This is because most of us know that Will is controlling and abusive. Liz’s sister Rachel and I get calls constantly from Liz complaining how abusive he is and how he demands to know where she’s at and who she’s with at all times. The cops have even been dispatched to their apartment several times due to how loud and violent their arguments are.

Rachel and I feel this was very reckless and irresponsible for Liz to now get pregnant with a man she claims is abusive while not working and dealing with lawsuits and an injured daughter (from a prior marriage). She made a big show during Mother’s Day and kept saying how her, Will and Liz’s two kids can now be a family even going to far as to have a professional photographer set up a photo shoot at the beach for them to share the news on instagram.

The thing that bugs me the most about this though is how Liz has seemingly pushed me off to the side. Even Rachel and her parents agree that I’ve been the father figure to her kids for nearly 10 years and how she barely makes any mention of me but is now parading Will around as this savior and blessing when we all know their relationship is highly volatile at best.

I apologize if this sounds rant-like but I just feel
Liz is being very irresponsible given everything she’s told me about her and wills issues. I can only imagine much more complicated things will be now but I’ve learned that although I’ve surely made an impact in her kids lives, this may be the final nail in the coffin that allows me to fully step away from that caregiving role to just being a family friend.

I’m a long time family friend of my friend Liz and her extended family. In total Liz has around 7 siblings and there are 14 kids between all of them so she had a big family. The grandfather of the family tells me that I’m family to them due to the fact that I always show up to birthdays and am very generous with gifts. And I don’t believe this is the reason I am invited and they also have gone out of their way to celebrate my birthday as well.

Liz is divorced and had two kids currently and I have basically helped raised her two kids since they were babies. Liz and I never had any intentions to become more than friends and I was always happy with that. Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time and resources to help raise her kids from buying food, clothes and taking them out on outings. Sure, some say this is beyond the call of duty but I genuinely felt bad for the kids since their father is absent from their lives. Because of this, much of Liz’s family recognizes me as the de facto “father figure”.

About a year ago, Liz asked her boyfriend Will to move in with them and this past Mother’s Day, we gathered at one of Liz’s siblings house for a Mother’s Day bbq. It was there that Liz announced that her and Will were expecting a baby. The reaction was mixed but Liz, Will and Liz’s two kids started to take a bunch of photos at the Mother’s Day banner that was set up and she kept saying how “we finally gonna be a family now.”

Liz’s sister Rachel later tells me in secret that barely anyone is happy for her. Most of us knows that Will is abusive to Liz and her announcing that her and Will and her kids are a family now is disrespectful to me since I’ve been here for years supporting Liz and her kids.

I told Rachel it was fine and this is obviously what she wants but Rachel mentions that even her dad says that it’s messed up how she’s pushed me to the side now.

I personally just hope that her kids remember the things I did to help raise them. All the trips to the zoo and all endless toys they’d bug me for. They may be too young to recognize it now (they’re 8 and 10) but I guess I’ll know years from now if I made any impact.

Any thoughts?

I’ve been friends with Liz for many years and last year, Liz decided to move in with her boyfriend Will along with Liz’s two kids (ages 8 and 11) from a prior marriage. Although she pretends that her and Will are a happy couple to most of her friends and family, I secretly know that their relationship is toxic and they constantly argue at times, even to the point where police get called.

I know this because Liz trust me enough to share this info with me. She has asked me for help over the year but I have grown tired of helping her when she doesn’t seem to be getting better so I decided to distance myself a few months ago. Well yesterday was Mother’s Day and I was invited to Liz’s brother’s house for a small Mother’s Day bbq. It was there that she announced that Will and her were expecting a baby. Liz appeared to be very excited as with most of her family. But Liz’s sister Rachel and I looked at each other with this “oh shit” look. Rachel also knows about their secret issues.

Liz later comes to me and asks me why I didn’t come up to congratulate them like most other family members. I was still processing all this info so I was very honest with her.

“I don’t know what to make of this. You’ve done nothing but complain about will for the past year and just two nights ago, you called me at midnight asking me to call the police cause you feared Will was going to get violent and now you go and have a kid with him.” I explain.

“I know we’ve had issues but I think this will really change him for the best.” Liz responds.

“You said the same thing about your ex husband and two kids couldn’t change him. If you decided that having this baby is what you want then you must live with whatever comes next. If Will again decides to argue or even get violent, be prepared to live with your decisions.”

“So are you not happy for me?” Liz asks.

“To be honest I don’t know. Your relationship with him is complicated. Your life is general is always complicated and despite my efforts to help you, you will always do what you want and now you’ve decided to factor a pregnancy into this whole mess.” I respond.

I inform Liz that if decided to keep this baby then Will needs to step and take care of her and her two kids rather than asks me for help but I also wouldn’t be surprised if Liz ended up asking me for help due to wills personality issues.

Liz looked disappointed as I guess she thought I would be happy for her but I later spoke to Rachel who said that Liz getting pregnant is highly irresponsible given how she can barely hold down a job and care for her two kids while living with Will who has constant anger management issues and constantly threatens to move out.

Am I wrong for not being happy for my friends pregnancy announcement or offering to help if things go south in her relationship?

This happened years ago but it still stings to this day.

My aunt owned a small 40 seat restaurant where her son (my cousin) was the assistant manager. Other than he and I, we kept a skeleton crew with usually one cook and one dishwasher in the kitchen. The dishwasher would often double as a prep cook or short order cook. Occasionally there would be an actual prep cook but it was normally 5 people working there most days.

But my cousin, who grew up spoiled abused his position as the owners son. He’d often come in late, leave early, take long lunch breaks or often not come in at all, leaving me to care for 40 people, and we were often busy all day.

Now the rules when it came to tips was he and I were to pool our tips together and split them up between us at the end of the day, so this meant even on days we were off, we’d get a share of the tips. Because my cousin had final say on the tips and has access to the books, he often used this to make sure he got a bigger share of the tips. His reasoning was that on days I’m off, he gives great service and gets massive tips so it’s only fair he gets more as opposed to days where he’s off, tips are low so that should be an even 50/50 split. Of course, whenever I asked him to show me the numbers, he’d never do it.

I also found it hard to believe he gets bigger tips whenever I was off as I’ve had lots of days where I’ve seen him serve tables and rarely gets tips. This is because he often told customers off or gave them attitude. Again since his mom owned the place, he knew he could get away with anything from telling a mother who recently lost her baby due to miscarriage that “at least you can fuck again.” to straight up calling Mexicans and Asians “gringos” and “chinitos”.

Anyways, I was already at the breaking point when one day, the entire kitchen staff decided to go work somewhere else that day. My aunt came to work and my cousin claimed to be too sick to come in. My aunt cooked while I served and washed dishes.

At closing, I saw my cousin come in and immediately start to count of the tips. He said he was too sick to work but I guess he’s cured now that there’s money to be had. I stopped mopping the floor, grabbed my backpack and walked out.

He initially left me alone but I secretly moved out of town. He kept saying how I wasn’t a team player but it was ok cause “we don’t need you.” And that I’d come crawling back soon.

A few years later, the restaurant was sold. The yelp rating dropped from a 4.2 all the way down to a 2.3 in the years after I left. The numbers don’t lie and I’m much happier today.

I used to work at a restaurant that my family owned which makes this situation even worse. My aunt owned the restaurant and her son was the assistant manager and completely abused his nepotism. He’d come in late, leave early, take long lunch breaks and basically acted however he wanted knowing he was untouchable.

I had the misfortune of working there for 5 years during the late 2000s when the economy was in the toilet. Rather than being a supportive cousin, he would constantly take every opportunity to belittle me and make me look bad. Mind you, even when I was starting and had no experience, he did not give me any grace, calling me “retarded” in front of customers and that “this guy doesn’t know shit.” (Yes he’d use curse words.).

Being an army veteran, I’m used to being put down so I usually just put my head down and pushed forward. I did my job and was always nice to our customers. Even when customers went out of their way to tell my cousin what a great server I was, my cousin would brush it off by saying “meh anyone can do his job.” He’d never praise me for any time I skipped my lunch or somehow managed 14 tables alone but he would never ever hesitate to tell me when I messed up or did something he didn’t like.

Once I had prepared a side salad quickly but didn’t realize that a few pieces of lettuce I had picked up in the big bowl was turning brown. The customers understandably sent it back and my cousin said (in front of the customers)

“Are you blind? Look at this shit!” While literally shoving the entire salad into my apron.

“I’m sorry folks. I’ll personally make your next salad and make sure this idiot gets his pay docked for the lettuce he just cost us.” My cousin said. Even the customers would sometimes give him a look of “really bro? That wasn’t necessary.”

He’d brush off any criticism of himself as he saw it as just haters being haters. He’d write me up even if I was late by 5 minutes or he’d take my tips away because he thought I was secretly pocketing cash tips when we were supposed to pool them together.

I finally had enough one day and walked out. He taunted me and said they didn’t need me and that I’d come crawling back. A few short years later, the restaurant was sold and he ended up working at a Home Depot.

Has anyone ever had a manager like this? Or worked with family? Any thoughts about my story?

Thanks.

My friend Liz started her job as a customer service rep for a financial firm about 6 months ago. She’s new to this type of work and makes around $25 an hour, which living in Los Angeles is not that much. After about 3 months, she asked for a pay raise due to the increasing cost of living. To her surprise they granted her a raise to $32 an hour.

About a 1.5 months ago, she asked for another raise but was told they couldn’t afford it at this time. Instead they asked if she’d take a pay cut due to an influx of new hires that the firm needed to hire. She was hesitant but was told that the company saw great potential in her and would consider moving her into a supervisor position with an increase to $40 an hour soon after her temporary pay cut. Seeing this as a temporary things, she accepted this and was reduced back to $25 an hour.

However two weeks after that, she was called into the managers office and was laid off, citing needs to “restructure”. She actually argued that this was unfair but that the firm had made their minds up and apologized for misleading her.

Now Liz has told me she plans to sue them for wrongful termination. I asked her how it was wrongful and she claims she was told that if she took a temporary reduction in pay then she would expect to be promoted with a raise shortly after but instead, she got laid off.

I told her that if she wants to contact a lawyer then she’s free to do so but I don’t know if this falls under anything illegal or worth pursuing legal action.

Is this considered wrongful termination? What should she do?

Edit: as far as I’m told, there was never a signed contract stating she was to be prompted at a later date. This was all done verbally with the only contract signed was her agreeing to take a pay cut. However it never stated anything about a raise or promotion. She said she signed the paperwork because payroll needed it to process her hourly salary.

My friend Vanessa is a married woman with 7 children. She has been married to a man named Kevin and I’ve known her for nearly 20 years. For the past few years, Kevin’s job has required him to travel at times and once, he was gone for nearly 1.5 months.

Vanessa had told me how difficult it is needing to manage while he’s away as she works full time as well and she admits she gets quite lonely too. Recently she invited me to her house for one of her kids birthdays. She stated drinking and later asks me why I’m still single. Not partially weird but I just told her that I’m picky.

Well after a while, she later admits that she always found me somewhat cute and suggests we go to her bedroom. I admit, Vanessa is quite attractive but I wasn’t about to help her cheat on her husband who was out of town.

“There’s no way he’d ever find out.” Vanessa tells me. She says all the kids are downstairs playing games and she wasn’t trying to trick me in any way. I told myself I had to get out of there. Vanessa tried to stop me but I said I can’t do this and I’d feel terrible helping her cheat on her husband.

I left but I admit, I’ve been thinking about it since. I later texted Vanessa to see if she was ok and although she admits she was drunk, she was ready to have sex. I admit, it was very tempting considering how attractive I am to Vanessa but I don’t think I can ever see her the same way again.