Assistants

[Lon More]

It is, after all, 'ranked', 1st.

By who? A legend it its own lifetime

[jackieofalltrades]

Any truth in the rumour that the other UK centre, ('ranked' 6th), frequently smells of 'meat'?

Not a rumour, it's true. There's a meat processing/packing plant on the industrial estate nearby, so it's not uncommon for the smell of meat to waff through the air conditioning to give the Ops Room the ambiance of a BBQ.

A lot of criticism aimed my way but not one condemnation of the assistant for taking a days sick due to hiccups.

Just why would you want someone's poor health to be criticised anyways? Like HD and DC10RealMan have explained, there can be many good reasons for an Assistant to stay at home. Are you really that bitter towards the staff that work in the Ops Room?

[EGLL19791986]

I don't think I'd go sick for a day with Hiccups. Might well take a month
off with NIBS induced stress though!

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

An ATCO friend of mine had a couple of days off sick. On the form he entered the reason as "Amnesia" and under "Branch" he wrote "?"

[EGLL19791986]

Bit like the well know 'Scottish' ATCO at West Drayton who went sick and put PMT down on the form. HR sent it back because he put the wrong dates on!!!

[ZOOKER]

Lon, allegedly it was 'ranked' by a high-flying 'ranker'. - "A legend in its own lifetime".
Wake up and smell the 'meat'.

[Minesthechevy]

<<< An ATCO friend of mine had a couple of days off sick. On the form he entered the reason as "Amnesia" and under "Branch" he wrote "?">>

Another ATCO, well-known to HD, went flying but was grounded far from home due to inclement met. He phoned in sick, saying he was 'under the weather'. Allegedly.

[Air.Farce.1]

But as I remember it, the small black insects crawling into my headset, The Borstal Boys doing the gardening and one of our happy band getting locked up for offences related to a 16mm projector and "foreign" films. An electronic tote board so far away that I had to wear glasses and the guy who worked in the tea bar had a stunning orange Mk1 Escort.

Airfix guys working downstairs in the incredible heat while the cold air coming up through the floor beside Height Finder4 was just magic. Tyram Hall for after hours beer and Jim Rose making sure everyone's car was taxed.

Lindholme was a place with a lot more character, and characters, than NPC.

The fact that they had to do the accommodation up to make it a prison really says it all.

Jim Rose the RAF copper He chased some of us round the airfield (disused) one Saturday night in our car with no headlights..pitch black !

I thought I drunk Tyram Hall dry