Ali Crom
You are quite right about losing Tradesmen, our shift loses 3 this month and a further 2 that we know of this year, of the 2 that go this month they are guys who have got A+P's and jobs elsewhere - Germany and Canada, the other is a lifer who made it to retirement.
As for the sheds, I've done my time in there. Last Saturday I was working an aircraft on TE6 and needed some locking wire, I nipped in the hangar opposite to go to the stores rather than back to the Central Area and saw a guy apparently working on his own on a 767 tail docking, that can't be safe? I couldn't see another soul in the hangar. Sad to see the pnuematics section missing, talk about ghost town. I think I scared the S.H.!.T. out of the storeman. On the way out I nearly went flying over the 757 earthing wire that was like a trip wire to catch trespassers, I put it back, by the way, but I thought if I had broken my leg or worse it would have Monday morning at the earliest before I were found.