Thanks for the benefit of your CV Mr Guppy
. Didn't take much to pull your plonker did it?
Can I have your cuffs when you are finished with them
. I have my own wipes.
You can keep your handgun, I always found them not much of a challenge and most people using them at the range carried stupid grins. Preferred long range rifle shooting myself (using the next rifle off the rack - now there's a challenge).
The point is simply that by propounding your old ways of paying for all your own kit, instead of asking for it, and furthermore suggesting others should expect to do so, you are potentially downgrading the working environment for all those that follow you, and by doing that, you are encouraging others to play into the hands of accountants who couldn't give a FF about anything much unless it improves the bottom line.
I never really assumed you of all people worked on any line, Guppy, perish that thought
. Not in the normal sense at any rate. I surely don't know many who wear helmets in airlines, and quite some threads ago I decided that SNS3Guppy must be a specially experienced type of chap, shockwaves and all, didn't I?
You Sir, actually said nothing of the law, except that you enforced some once with your gun and some cuffs; whereas I did. The law in Europe says the employer must provide and maintain the PPE. I grant that if you come from elsewhere the law may be different, and if you fly something so comfy that the decibels are always well below 75 in your seat then please feel free to continue to do what you like with your communication tool, and your SnapOn spanners, but you really shouldn't confuse what you do and where you've been with those who wear headsets for PPE reasons as well as a preferred means of using the radio. Even if a headset in your world is not PPE but is solely a tool, then the law again puts a statutory duty (UK at any rate) on the employer to provide safe tools and systems. Unclean, uncomfortable communal headsets fail on three counts. What's the third? As an engineer you will know that you have to inspect your tool to ensure it ain't unsafe/you can rely on it before you use it. If you are not issued with it personally and you are not the salaried radio bits tester, how do you know whether or not it has a fault? Will it be registered as one in the aircraft tech log or will you have to find it sometime during the next flight yourself?
Incidently, what do you wear when you do a walkround inspection on the apron with your or your neighbour's APU running? Own belt and underpants obviously, but PPE or no PPE? Do you buy your own ear defenders for that too?
You still didn't say who created the radio havoc or why; only who fixed it.
If you and your colleagues put on your oxygen masks regularly in your operation then yes, why would you be expected to pull one on after some unknown had pulled it on before you unless it had been properly cleaned by some salaried specialist in between times?
But dear Sir, I shall mind my own business if it makes you happy - the day yours crosses mine is admittedly quite unlikely
. I used to carry a handkerchief for unexpected sneezes, but now I stifle the sneezes more hygienically, and instead my pocket might now carry antiseptic wipes for cleaning up various messes after reading this thread. Much like you once carried your gun and cuffs I guess