Not really. There has to be a first time for everyone.
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Well, if New Zealand taxpayers want to be paying out for this sort of thing then thatās their choice. They can vote accordingly.
Iām in command of a ship. I donāt know that itās on autopilot (as shown on the screen in front of me). But, nobody died, so Iām a hero.
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She served in the Royal Navy previously. They probably donāt have autopilot.
Not sure of details of her service in NZ, but it looks like she probably had an ordinary path to a command, with service at sea going back to the last century. As @TT notes, no one else on the ship figured it out. Still her fault, but mistakes do happen unfortunately.
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Whatās really scary is there is no way of saying āThis person is really shitā. There is no way to be a whistleblower, which is often supported in other cases, with someone of this identity.
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You think so? I would imagine itās somewhat basic to have these days. Someone commented that it was a mistake to have it on close to land but I donāt know enough to know if thatās an accurate statement but it could be a failure from that point.
It would be unlikely the commander would be in control of the ship. There is usually 1 officer who is in control with an CO and XO which I assume would have both been present in the time of crisis going into land. So 3 officers would ultimately fail to realize auto pilot was on which is rather shocking
I would also think autopilot being on or off would be clear in some way. It would seem like something that is important to be able to tell clearly.
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The most surprising fact about this story is that New Zealand has a navy.
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No, I was joking. It is amazing no one figured out it, but thereās some precedent with the CA disaster in Japan. You would think there would be some kind of fail safe for it. You might also think auto pilot on a naval vessel is just a bad idea.
Iāve been watching plane accidents videos on YouTube. I made the mistake of watching 1 before take off on the plane once 
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On planes thereās alarms that go off when the autopilot is engaged and the plane is doing something that shouldnāt be happening.
Maybe naval warships donāt have this feature but maybe they should if this can happen 
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It seems very small with 8 ships. 2 of them have been in accidents under command of a female commander so thatās not a good optic.
Outside of the target 30% female. I found that their military is actually struggling to have enough people in general so it might not be solely an DEI issue, they might be just trying to get anyone. Which explains how a British officer was able to join their navy and become commander. Youād think they have their own officers to promote under DEI initiatives or not but it seems like maybe not
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If only there were some precedent in male privilege that would solve the problem of recruit numbers 
Conscription?
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True story, last year I flew to Taiwan from SFO via Denver. When we landed in San Francisco I thought my teeth were going to crack. My jaw slammed down into my chest. Iāve never been on a flight where the landing was so hard. Overhead bins stayed closed, nothing was jostled around, but the landing was very hard.
Some of the same people were also bound for TPE, and at the gate - after the discussion about why the black helicopters were in the airspace above the SFO (turns out Biden and AF1 were landing soon, so they were security) there was a discussion about the hard landing. What was going around was that the pilot was a DEI hire and the carrier, United, was getting complaints around the world about pilots. The pilot from Denver wasnāt greeting disembarking passengers, so who knows.
No problems landing at TPE.
I think in the USN the captain would lose rank and be made otherwise aware there is no future for them. Their days of commanding any vessel in the US Navy are over.
I think I said it when the Gay story broke, but academic fraud is far more common than people would expectā¦
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From Lee Fang
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Interesting perspective from the side of the hiring manager. DEI policy is the way for a company to communicate to any employee that you have no grounds to sue for discrimination .
I couldnāt finish it. I regularly see job ads that specifically state they are looking for people from marginalized communities. Not sure if this guy is genuine or what is going on, but his singular perspective as presented in the first minute isnāt the whole story
You should really finish it before commenting then. Heās not giving an opinion whether DEI is good or bad, but more about the duality of HR roles and how DEI is more of an insurance policy for companies rather than checking a box like many assume. HR is not there to fill a quota, but to insulate the company from lawsuits.
Er, not really. My comment was, thereās no reason to finish this because heās opening with things I know to be untrue.
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