Grief at the Shed ??????????????????
Well snoopy, the only stress I ever experienced at the old shed was whether or not to have another pint in the Grafton at 03:00 before a shift !!!
Surely it cannot have changed that much ???? I felt like Dick Turpin when my salary was paid in each month, £24,000p.a for doing next to nothing, and you call that grief ???? Not once did I ever experience any any real grief in the shed, sure there was a bit of ranting and raving, but did you not think it was really funny ??? Then again I suppose it is how you deal with her, my advice is be firm, she likes that !!!!!!!
Anyone would think it was Geko Industries rather than a small regional with F*****g good pilots, F*****g good engineers, F*****g good hosties (ooo yes !!) and a damn fine social scene.
Why did I leave ??? Pure greed !!!!!


The Groover, with his tounge firmly in his cheek (makes a change!!)

I agree with Wolf, the environment is dependent on who the Ops Manager is and whether your computerized or not.

We have a great (and knowledgable) Ops Manager as well as having a refurbished office with new phone system and nice TFT screen monitors (anti-cancer!). The Ops crew in general (apart from one or two DO's) make the environment very relaxed!

Same s*** different day is a common thing across all Ops as it would seem. Being Ops Asst don't get too much though! http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/redface.gif)

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Thats a fine thing!

Nice too see Snoopy 22 has gone back to suckle on the dark teat of mother HeavyLift. I used to be an ops officer @ Heavylift but have since moved. I always found that their ops dept was always behind the technology drag curve, and the back up was mostly not even 80%, but the guys you work with make it worth while, they had too the money was terrible. I feel if it wasn't for the team spirit I would have left there a long time ago...

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Sit on your hands for 10 mins and it will all get better!

[This message has been edited by Rapid_Climber (edited 24 January 2001).]

Hey Rapid-Climber, I see your getting the hang of this pprune thing! I agree with your post that money at happylift is not good but team spirit amoungst ops was/is excellent, but unless they do somthing about the cash people will start to walk, no matter how good the environment is.

I must agree with Rapid-Climber & Bondman, the pay at Happylift could be better, but the team spirit is the one good thing in ops. Speaking of which whats happening to the Ops Beano ?

Nice thread 12many, but I'm sure that my sign on your notice board would be enough. Currently looking good for AMS, now that will be a moral boaster, poss for Snoopy 22's birthday again. Maybe you can lose you virginity!
I now moral after you pay reveiw is an all time low, so get your CV draw up now.

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Sit on your hands for 10 mins and it will all get better!

12many, Ops Beano last seen in 'Cyril the taxi' travelling east to CGN, but seriously get yourself a F/M on that new bus you got- cos you won't know what busy is until all the bods in back start ringing 150 times a day!

Bondman, I wish I knew what they were doing with this pax bus! You see, you may recall, we in ops are the last to get told anything of any importance.

12many, speak to the cleaners..they seem to be the first to know what's happening.

12many, not ness to ask the cleaners, just put the right questions to your new ops manager, once started he tells you everything!(in Irish accent "Can you tell me about the force?").
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I have said a number of times now, I'm willing to sort out the hostess' for you, could even do some rostering, BARK, BARK!

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Sit on your hands for 10 mins and it will all get better!

Rapid-Climber,
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'I'm willing to sort out the hostess'
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oh my goodness..dream on! they'll show you and the billericary kid no mercy :)

If I can revert for a second back to the thread, Wolf-in-sheeps-clothing posted reply about a computerized ops room vs a manual one. These are my experiences in the last 3 Ops dept. I've worked in,
Ops A / was manual then went computerized but in both cases was a nightmare, as not enough back up support or organization, we went from one crisis to another.
Ops B / all manual, the dept. was well organized and had plenty of support staff, life was relaxed and it ran well.
Ops C / all computerized, again plently of back up and well organized.

Ops B at the time had the most a/c of all three and still worked ok with manual systems.So IHMO as long as the management set up a good structure then you're ok either way.

Cheers Bondy



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Working in SNN. Office in Kind of ok.

Don't do flight planning. Leave airlines do their own stuff.
Local Met office does the Weather. Just pick the fax's up off the tray and hand them out.
Manual on 24% of the airlines we handle.
1 airline load controlled from LGW. Spend a lot of time running to a/c with bits of paper.
Money Sucks, but it's better then pushing cans around a Hi-Lo at 2am :-)
Training depends on the airline. Only eight on the roster to provide 24hr coverage. 4 needed on the am shift so the overtime is quite freely available.

GroundClown

The environment in the dispatch office??
Doesn't it all come down to how close the office is to the passengerdepartments office (and thereby the chicks)?? <G>
PC