Well I suppose if anything I'm pleased to have drawn a smile out of you - sounds like you needed it!
And come on chap, tell me any office/workplace that doesn't have the 'irritable' printer, or staff disciplinaries, or operational requirements?
Now, answer me this - say you went to work one day, and during the drive to the airport every traffic light was on green, and there was no inconsiderate scrote attempting to run you off the road. And when you reached the airport, security gave you a warm smile, shook your hand and told you what a wonderful day it was. And yes, the printer in the crew room was fully loaded and ready for a days work, smiles all round. Climbing out ATC have somehow, 'magically' found you a wonderful corridor DCT A-B and climb straight up. CAVOK all the way, and not an ounce of wind on landing. Now, reverse this for leg number 2 etc.
Wouldn't you be incredibly bored?
As humans, we don't like inconvenience in our lives, that's in our nature - but, and this is a fact, if we look at past surveys and compare results, what we rank as (and the difference is considerable) more irritating is having to repeat a similar task, day, after day, after day, after day.
After day...
And that doesn't just apply to our work - have a look at yourselves on here. It's rather amusing really, three months ago I was saying that everyone would be at each others' throats within a few months when this recession started to hit. But nobody listened, and now you can see it, just have a look around - the way people talk to each other on here is now not far short of what you might expect to hear in a high school playground.
So pick out my immaturities, my naeivity, whatever will make you feel better. Because despite that, it doesn't matter how you twist it, I was right.
You must look at the bigger picture - PPRuNe represents a fair proportion of pilots - now if we judge by the majority attitude displayed on here, well, what can one say! It's hardly surprising my profession is in the state it's in...
I never meant any offence,
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