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<blockquote data-quote="LongTimeComing" data-source="post: 1084350" data-attributes="member: 45493"><p>Is there a problem with calling my employees 'my guys'? We all get along...we all work well together. Is that against the contract?</p><p></p><p>A tarmac...is the ramp. The ramp is where my airplanes are. They are 'mine' because they are 'mine' to load. Those next day air packages? We have to get them from the hubs and centers once you guys get back to the building. They go through the sort. They come to us at the airport. Our start time is 20:00. Air shuttles and A5 air trailers start getting to us around 21:00. </p><p></p><p>There's not many places to hide out in the middle of a giantic concrete slab. We are probably a quarter of a mile away from our building. During our busy times, we use every available person. We get doublers from the other shift. We are at the mercy of the system...both the flight schedules, and when hubs and centers feed us the volume. Depending on how jacked up things are, we can be there all through the night. There are some down times....but they can't be scheduled....it's the nature of an air gateway. Soemtimes there's a matter of an hour or two between aircraft....sometimes minutes. The air network can't be behind. We do what we have to, as safe as we can.</p><p></p><p></p><p>They are driving heavy equipment that load the jets...they are driving tugs, belt loaders, pushbacks, de-ice trucks, forklifts.....outside, in the weather. I am out there standing directly in the middle of all of it....I load plan the jets, instruct the guys on what goes where, how, and when. So yes, before you assume that I'm in a nice warm office..... I'm in the middle of the barren, wide open, no cover wasteland that is a tarmac during the dead of winter with the rest of my guys. I have no sympathy for complaints of the weather being too cold. Some of us honestly don't have a choice but to deal with it being the nature of the job. You can't expect to work here and not have to deal with that kind of stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LongTimeComing, post: 1084350, member: 45493"] Is there a problem with calling my employees 'my guys'? We all get along...we all work well together. Is that against the contract? A tarmac...is the ramp. The ramp is where my airplanes are. They are 'mine' because they are 'mine' to load. Those next day air packages? We have to get them from the hubs and centers once you guys get back to the building. They go through the sort. They come to us at the airport. Our start time is 20:00. Air shuttles and A5 air trailers start getting to us around 21:00. There's not many places to hide out in the middle of a giantic concrete slab. We are probably a quarter of a mile away from our building. During our busy times, we use every available person. We get doublers from the other shift. We are at the mercy of the system...both the flight schedules, and when hubs and centers feed us the volume. Depending on how jacked up things are, we can be there all through the night. There are some down times....but they can't be scheduled....it's the nature of an air gateway. Soemtimes there's a matter of an hour or two between aircraft....sometimes minutes. The air network can't be behind. We do what we have to, as safe as we can. They are driving heavy equipment that load the jets...they are driving tugs, belt loaders, pushbacks, de-ice trucks, forklifts.....outside, in the weather. I am out there standing directly in the middle of all of it....I load plan the jets, instruct the guys on what goes where, how, and when. So yes, before you assume that I'm in a nice warm office..... I'm in the middle of the barren, wide open, no cover wasteland that is a tarmac during the dead of winter with the rest of my guys. I have no sympathy for complaints of the weather being too cold. Some of us honestly don't have a choice but to deal with it being the nature of the job. You can't expect to work here and not have to deal with that kind of stuff. [/QUOTE]
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