Being on a day off, I hurried into the Office this morning along with the usual squadron of First Officer 5IC Senior Deputy Assistant Chief Manager's Attache's Secretary pilots, First Officer instructors and First Officer Inserters of Amendments as well as various other sundry FO boot-lickers, brown-nosers, arse-kissers and pursuers of grandeur, in the hopes, as is the fashion, of furthering my own position by performing such mundane tasks as may disdainfully be handed my way. Whilst re-loading a photocopier, I overheard a comment from a knowledgeable source who claims the current crisis with the leaking A380 Arse-Washing cubicles has been traced back to the same contractor (awarded through "Procurements" at the lowest possible price) who, armed with a tube of Silastic, was responsible for such acts and mis-deeds as:
- The plastering at "Envy" villas in Garhoud,
- The filtration of the Silicon Oasis swimming pool,
- The sound-proofing at "DK" villas, also in Garhoud,
- Road water-drainage city-wide,
- The rain-proofing of the Mall of the Emirates,
- The tech-training of the Oasis Shopping Centre welding team,
- The foundations of the Palm Island, and
- The lean in the Burj Dubai.
Off to see if anyone up the top needs a brew.