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PlayTheOdds
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1994Bob Owens said:
PlayTheOdds said:
So you came out of school just prior to when most of the majors went on a huge hiring spree yet you only decided to go there 11 years later as a scab?
This is a pretty small industry. Any mechs out there from Houston Texas A&P? Does it even exist?
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I worked perm position on a defense contract till 2000
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That wasn't the case in my state. I did some side stuff and some contracting. Went direct at one place ealier this year just to get laid off with 60% of the work force. The company sold out and the new owners should be gearing up soon.
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Mr. Ho, We wouldn't be a sore looser would we? The game is over so now you want to come and visit me in my neighborhood? I'll have a cold one waiting for you. I am honored that you are thinking of me in you last desperate hours as reality sinks in to your little pebble of a brain. Congratulations, reality is a much better world than the fantasyland you and your suckers have been living in.
I understand that quite a few AMFA mechanics aren't walking the picket lines anymore. I hear they have taken up the life of us so called gypsies and headed down to Mobile. What a dump, of all the contracts out there the best the almighty AMFA mechanics could get is MAE the sweat shop of the industry. Them boys are in for a very rude awakening. You have to actually work there.
The supervisor that was giving me my interview asked what I thought of my job here and how difficult I thought it was. I told him It was 100 time easier than I thought it would be. The job isn't much more than a glorified car shop mechanic. I don't even know why you have to have an A&P to work here. This job is a joke compared to an MRO. I feel guilty when I get my paycheck until I think of the three hours a day wasted every day dealing with the bus. Do you know what the hardest part about this job is? Not having enough ground equipment and what ground equipment they do have is in disrepair. Northwest had better correct this problem soon or they will begin to loose mechanics. You guys might think lowly of the contractors’ here but let me tell you. They are very smart individuals and they do not tolerate ignorance. This ground equipment issue is beginning to wear on all of us. It was brought up in a meeting yesterday and none of us liked the answer we got in regards to the ground equipment and tools. There are not enough carts. There is not enough tire pressure gauges or torque wrenches. The servicing pumps are weak and missing couplings. We aren't supposed to empty the trash but who ever handles the trash is doing a piss poor job of it. The restrooms are so deplorable that we won't use them. The used oil bins are full, with empty cans all over the place.None of the platform truck work. If Northwest wants to keep these mechanics here they better start doing some house cleaning and get these guys some equipment. This better happen soon because there is already some disconcert over it. I see more and more guys weighing other options out there.
I understand that quite a few AMFA mechanics aren't walking the picket lines anymore. I hear they have taken up the life of us so called gypsies and headed down to Mobile. What a dump, of all the contracts out there the best the almighty AMFA mechanics could get is MAE the sweat shop of the industry. Them boys are in for a very rude awakening. You have to actually work there.
The supervisor that was giving me my interview asked what I thought of my job here and how difficult I thought it was. I told him It was 100 time easier than I thought it would be. The job isn't much more than a glorified car shop mechanic. I don't even know why you have to have an A&P to work here. This job is a joke compared to an MRO. I feel guilty when I get my paycheck until I think of the three hours a day wasted every day dealing with the bus. Do you know what the hardest part about this job is? Not having enough ground equipment and what ground equipment they do have is in disrepair. Northwest had better correct this problem soon or they will begin to loose mechanics. You guys might think lowly of the contractors’ here but let me tell you. They are very smart individuals and they do not tolerate ignorance. This ground equipment issue is beginning to wear on all of us. It was brought up in a meeting yesterday and none of us liked the answer we got in regards to the ground equipment and tools. There are not enough carts. There is not enough tire pressure gauges or torque wrenches. The servicing pumps are weak and missing couplings. We aren't supposed to empty the trash but who ever handles the trash is doing a piss poor job of it. The restrooms are so deplorable that we won't use them. The used oil bins are full, with empty cans all over the place.None of the platform truck work. If Northwest wants to keep these mechanics here they better start doing some house cleaning and get these guys some equipment. This better happen soon because there is already some disconcert over it. I see more and more guys weighing other options out there.
PlayTheOdds said:
Thank you Play the odds, I am at DTW and making managment very happy, its amazing that we can do in less than half the time what the AMFA mechs did and do it MUCH better. NWA is thrilled to have mechs that dont sit on their butts all the time and just milk the clock and suck the airline dry. I hate to see that from any mech union or not.
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I really do suggest that people scan through this topic from its beginning. It is by far the best topic in this forum. It makes for really good reading.
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making management very happy?Opus said:
I bet you are being the lap dog that you are, now return to your masters lap and beg for your measley scraps. 😉
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It's going to be the guys on the outside of the fence digging scraps soon. Those boys that went to MAE will soon be hating life. Is that where you AMFA boys are going to end up?... The whorehouse of the contract industry?
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the whores of this industry are the bunch to which you belong, perhaps one day if you live long enough to see your kids/grandkids struggle to buy a loaf of bread it will dawn on you that bowing down to the corporate master was'nt such a grand idea after all. BUT then again I doubt a SCAB even cares about his kids future stake in life.............SCAB ON SCABBY!!!!PlayTheOdds said:
local 12 proud said:making management very happy?
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You guys just dont get it do you, we understand that it is simple, if you are that unhappy where you work for that unhappy with the company you work for QUIT and get another job, its called AMERICA oh wait a second, you did quit your job you are just having trouble with the find a new job part. I beg for nothing where as AMFA seems to be doing alot of begging these days, requesting strike fund donations, selling cheap junk buttons ect ect. Who is doing the begging???
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