MPs stressed out over expenses
 

The poor little lambs...

I believe we should make them come in at 0600hrs for met, plan a 4 ship OCA mission, fly it and then debrief it - then do the expenses claim on the piece of sh!t they call JPA having been in work 8 hours.

Sympathy? Yeh, it's between sh!t and syphalis...:*

LJ

Do you find JPA fit for purpose and easy to use :confused:

.........nope......:confused:

Seldom FFP?

Your heart just leaks purple p1ss for them doesn't it?

They're probably struggling because they're not sure which scams are still goers and which are not.

But . . . we misjudge them. They only wish to serve, to do what little they can to make this a better place and have just the odd trip with their boyfriend . . .

And what rewards are they entitled too? I am out of pocket now for each temp duty away, where in JPA is the rewards box, I'm not ticking it obviously.

Hig - you've been looking in the wrong place - but here it is just for you:

http://www.eventelephant.com/uploade.../Attendee2.jpg

AA,
Thank you.

All my claims have been audited since the I tried to blag a floating duck island off incidentals, I will look more closely for the check box next time.;)

Well this sorted out my until now anger-free day...Poor lambkins.

Sorry but when they learn to behave like adults they will be treated like adults, untill that time they must suck it up.

0600? - You were lucky!

When I were a lad on t'tankers, when we 'ad a trail on, by six o'clock in't morning we'd been in t'ops block for nigh on two hours slavin over an 'ot flight plan.

0600? Luxury! We dreamt about 0600 starts ;)

Aye and poor buggers like me 'ad been slavin' away two hours afore that, getting soddin' aircraft ready. We loved 6 o'clock in't morning. It were coming oop fur dinnertime for the poor bloody lineys.;)

>We loved 6 o'clock in't morning. It were coming oop fur dinnertime for the poor bloody lineys<

Dinnertime? Luxury! We 'ad to do 48hr straight shifts sweepin' t' runway on one slice o' black pudding and a pint of waste AVTUR each.

Waste AVTUR? Luxury...we 'ad to make do wi' Aussy beer t' wash down OUR black puddin.

Right.............I had to get up 6 hours before I went to bed, fix my own aircraft, file t'flight plan, produce my own fuel by lactating avtur, Lick t'runway clean wit tongue then push t'aircraft into t'sky before leaping on't board...and after all that t'nav would still not make a pot of t'tea!

While I have no wish to follow on the "4 yorkshiremen" sketch and try to "top" anyone else, I can, in total honesty, say that I once, due a shortage of personnel, had to work, along with a few others, a shift pattern that consisted of 72hrs on, 72hrs off.

This went on for about 6 weeks until the manning situation improved.

I'm not saying it was hard, or that I didn't sleep at all during my 72hrs "on", but I am saying that it actually happened......

Tell youngsters that today - and they won't believe you...!

Oh, that really is beyond the pale (ale?) You poor sods. That's what most Aussies are doing over here - trying to get a decent pint of the dark and crisps that taste like Cheese and Onion.

Did you really mean to say that?
 

What the fug,
Bearing in mind the certain allegations flying around, the latter end of your post might be misconstrued.....:eek::=

Maybe I am being stupid and/or your post portrays a more simplistic view of what actually happened to require a 72 on/72 off shift pattern, but as you were able to operate two shifts what would have been the difference in operating 24 on/24 off or even 12 on/12 off?? You would have had the same number of people!

As I said I might not be seeing the full picture here, so apologies.

As an aside, I used to love my 24 on/24 off Nuke QRA shifts and even better Deci shifts which we also used in the Gulf, Nellis and Alaska. We did try them once in Goose Bay but that was too hard.

How long before the first MP suffers Expenses Claim induced PTSD? Its got to be worth a claim!:)