Thanks Chas & SAS
Guys,
Absolutely well said to everything!
You have both eloquently made some excellent philisophical observations.
As several eminent "Old West Africa Hands" have said many times previously on this thread - choose your life and once you have made your choice - live it - life is what you make it wherever you may be!
This does not necessarily mean accepting unecessary crap from itinerant or distant accountants or HR people but if you are unhappy, at least stand up to them rather than huddling in your room and whingeing.
This life is not a practice - it is the only one you have! - hand carrying 30 kilos of chop each into Escravos every hitch rather than making a very loud noise to Chevron and BIAGL Senior Management about the abysmal catering standards will solve nothing.
Whingeing on PPrune and becoming paranoid over F.C. (& the like) wind-ups is no substitute for making your personal feelings clearly known in a reasonable and assertive way to your Senior Managers.
They actually are prepared to listen and often agree fully with you but find that they themselves are "lone voices in the wilderness" because the vast majority of employees are meekly accepting and living with the crap that the Managers are being asked or told to pass down the line.
OK - pulpit creaking - must end the sermon here and locate a UK Winkle Franchise for SAS.
Trog