Young Engineers are far better, they can be given all the nasty jobs nobody else wants and don't have the experience and confidence to tell me where to go when I've buggered them about.
That's why I only let the older Engineers near pilots if I have a choice. I reserve the right to make other engineers lives miserable, and consider attempts by pilots to do the same a severe lack of protocol.
Totally unrelated to the thread mind you, but just about as useful.
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[This message has been edited by Genghis the Engineer (edited 21 January 2001).]