Fine
You bet it is nothing like it was when I started out, way back then, Aviation was fun. I guess, many other trades were too though?
I agree with your summary every inch of the way, however, as much as I hate my job, I find, in my company, I am in a great position and I hope many of you are too when pitching up for work.
Once the red tape has been dealt with, it is buisnes as usual.... A close knit team, getting on with the job, supporting each other, covering each other, stressing together, bantering, plain taking the p*** out of each other. What ever gets you through the 12 hours. I like to think, whatever has gone on, we walk out as friends after the 12, draw a line and start again
Kill that, I will agree 100% and bang out myself, to do God only knows what!
That's just my take from the Ops room where I am. It could be a Crew room, Line hut or a Hi-Lo and team waiting.
The industry, workwise has gone to the dogs, that's for sure, the characters who serve it, on the 'front line' keep me hanging on in there.
Just my 2p after 25 years and all the new fangled things like jet engines and rules and regs and departments with more Managers than Workers and targets and bonuses and beancounters and some idiot who decreed A/C should make profit. Whilst many aviation skills are deemed 'non-transferable', no one understands, the team spirit, the driving force for going to work, is just not welcome either?
I will stick where I am, amongst friends and if it is quiet, take the P*** out of the wheel re-inventers to pass the time, whilst getting everything from A-B as safely and profiably as I have always done.
Does that seem fair?
Yep, hate my job, go to work in a normal office? No way, never get to spend time with 'Proffessional Characters'
Bored