takes me back...
Aaahh, y'know, watching this thread weave it's merry meandering way through all sorts of hoo-har as brought memories flooding back. Memories of the day (this one in particular), when I sat by the pool in J'Burg and observed the QF society in action. T'was a long slip, and the 2X744 KLM crews in the hotel provided a stark and utterly depressing glimpse of what was wrong with the rat. I'm talking about the all-perveying "them and us" syndrome.
Me="techie?" hate that term. Who invented it anyway?
Them=the lovely desirables, orright some of them.
Cast my eye over to the pool and it looked like a goddamn family reunion. Damned if I could tell the "Skipper" (another silly term) from the CSM from the SO/FO/FW etc. Methinks 'What the hell? pride of Australia my ars#." they were having a ball. The FO and I immediately deserted our posts and joined 'em. One of the best layovers ever.
Don't work there anymore.
So why is that all-purveying social schism there, was it just the 744? Oh god, was it me?