In answer to MHAGE...
I appreciate you are very under-staffed on NLS
No I don't think you do unless you actually work there, which I am sure you don't
I may not work on NLS but work closely with them and in that capacity I
AM fully aware of the lack of manpower at NLS.
but I am sorry that you feel you have been 'lumbered' with doing essential maintenance!
Which could be carried out during the week if we had the manpower and I think you will find that I am fully aware that essential maintenance needs to be carried out, probably more so than you seeing as I am one of the ones controlling it
Again, I have no doubt that with enough manpower you would be able to carry out most of the essential maintenance during the week. But you don't have that manpower and my comment was in reference to your use of the word 'lumbered'. I still stand by it and am sorry if you feel you are being 'lumbered' with carrying out
ESSENTIAL work at weekends.
Secondly, even with enough manpower, there are times when work on a particular frame
needs to be carried out at the weekend (Ops 1 jet, u/s jet required first thing Mon, weekend operational/exercise commitments, etc).
You only work weekends when it is necessary
Thats why we have changed our shifts AGAIN to man working weekends EVERY weekend is it then
As you say, you control the maintenance - and possibly even the shift patterns? You do not control the ISK commitments. As I said, you only work weekends when it is absolutely necessary. If it has been necessary for you to work every weekend then I am sorry but the commitment of the fleet is such that you do exactly that.
if you do not know why you are working a particular weekend then maybe you should ask someone that does!
I put it to you that obviously you are the one who doesn't know what is going on
Sorry, but it appears that I do indeed have a bigger picture view of the required tasks of ISK. You appear to be engineering-centric whereas I am looking at the big picture. As I said before, if
YOU do not know why exactly NLS are required to work a particular weekend then ask someone that does. You are not asked to work weekends for the pure hell of it. Those asking you to do so are fully aware of the staffing issues on the line and try to avoid working weekends as much as the possible - but task needs sometimes outweigh the individual needs. You also demonstrated this lack of awareness of the big picture in several of your posts in the "Kinloss........Whats Going on?" thread.
Maybe if you want a purely Monday to Friday job you should go along the road to Lossie!
After 6 years on NLS I feel I have done my fair share for NLS and Kinloss and thanks but I am already on my way over the road
Good luck.
You're welcome.
And I must also thank Shack37 for his knowledgeable response. For someone whose profile states they live in another country and is of such an age that you have probably never worked on the MR2 in
recent years, you seem to be more knowledgeable than someone that is a damn sight closer in both location and time than yourself
Right, must fly,
MadMark!!!
