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Hard-core gamers recruited for Logan job that lives could depend on

Swissport International Ltd., which provides ground services at Logan Airport, has an ad on Craigslist for people looking for jobs de-icing airplanes in cold weather.

Headlined "Hardcore Gamer? We may have a job for you at Boson [sic] Logan Airport," the ad says de-icing airplanes requires the same skills as mastering a video game:

As a professional deicer, you will be deicing aircraft with state of the art equipment to insure safe flight for our customers and theirs. In this role you will sit in a pod perched high above airplanes, sit in front of a control panel, and, in simple terms, use a joy stick to spray the deicing fluid onto the airplanes.

Two possible problems for actual hard-core gamers: The job requires you to get up in a bucket in some of the coldest weather winter can throw at you and it requires you to be able to lift 70 pounds. But, it does pay $15 an hour.

H/t Slums of Harvard.

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I am not filled with confidence that they pay $15/ hour. I had the same thought after reading Sunday's Globe:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/08/16/four-stories-working-poor...

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I'd hardly call this skilled labor warranting more, if anything it's pretty decent for what entails just operating a machine efficiently.

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Seems like it justifies a higher wage to me.

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And the average annual salary for an EMT is $25,000/y

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Right on !

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My brother de-ices for an airline that he works for and it's no joke with the wind at Logan. This is a bad attempt to draw a hardcore gamer out from the confines of their mothers nice and warm basement.

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I don't think they were honestly thinking that basement dwelling gammers would jump at the chance to take a tedious, miserable job.

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Does making fun of other peoples' hobbies make you feel like a Cool Guy, or what?

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the Swissport folks consider the lives of its client airline passengers part of a game.

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Where do you think drone pilots start out?

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Weeks/months of intense training in military discipline and the operation of an expensive piece of equipment with avonics theory and simulation.

Source: my attorney who was an AF officer and one of the first in the drone program.

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they're murdering nerds.

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If by murdering nerds you mean changing nerds from nonproductive manchildren to productive members of the armed forces, then yes.

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Productive.

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Is this an attempt at "babykillers" in 2014 based on an MOS?

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No, they are literally cowardly baby killers. Spin it any way you'd like, but they kill their enemy from thousands of miles away while sipping Starbucks. That's cowardly.

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Well that's just an awful ignorant thing to say. What's your opinion of sailors that are billeted to CIC or submariners?

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that if wars could only be fought using swords, there would be less of them.

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The drone pilots are just following orders, you know, doing their jobs. I suggest you talk to their boss, the guy ordering these attacks. You can find him in a white house down in DC.

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at Nuremberg.

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I mean, really?

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Swirls , once upon a time , the Japanese were banging on the west door , and the Germans banging on the east door. Somehow they didn't get in......

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Kids whose only exposure to the horrors of war came from a computer monitor?

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Weeks/months of intense training in military discipline and the operation of an expensive piece of equipment with avonics theory and simulation.

Yup.

I don't know what the training is now, but like it was said above, drone pilots were trained exactly like pilots flying real planes. Exactly, including going thru the Dilbert Dunker.

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The Airforce academy in Colorado?

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This is part of the problem that makes the finding a job process difficult. There are these constant ridiculous ads, "fun atmosphere", "gamer atmosphere", etc, none of which is ever true. Beware of such ads.

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In other words:

Basement office.
No sunlight, no fresh air, stanky carpet.
Nothing but Doritos and Mountain Dew to eat and drink.
Work is conducted in 18 to 24-hour sessions.

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That is not unlike some early stage startups.

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We had Snapple.

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how original.

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