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REPRINTY GOODNESS: LIFE IN THE AGE OF DUMB, part 1

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, May 06, 2013, 10:56:47 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

May 06, 2013, 10:56:47 PM
Originally written in February of 2004, found in the archives.  2nd worst job I ever had.

"Eleven Egyptians drowned in a well yesterday, in the small town of Nuweiba, in the Sinai Peninsula, while attempting to rescue a chicken.  The chicken survived."
- AP, 1994, as quoted by the Fortean Times.

Some people, it seems, are too dumb to live...and my new co-worker, Rick, is one of them.  Rick is a forty-Fiftyish pilot that flies one of the Beech 18s that I maintain (yes, the Good Reverend has arrived, and is already gainfully employed, back in my original field of mechanical work).

Now, understand that the Beech 18 is a pig.  It really doesn't like to fly, and will do just about anything it can to achieve "an undesirable aircraft/ground interface".  It does strange things, like stalling, for no apparent reason...how's THAT for a comforting notion...there are HUNDREDS of these clunkers still in service, and odds are one flies over your house once a week, if not more.  One minute, you are minding your own business, watching "HeeHaw" on Nick at Night, and the next an antique POS falls through your roof and kills you.  Are you ready for that?  Are you ready to be front page news, in a story that involves the words "closed casket"?

Who can explain these types of things?  Not Rick, he's an idiot.  Not the drooling redneck kind of idiot, but rather a man with NO sense of self-preservation.  Apparently, Rick was involved in some South of the border monkey business back in the 80s, and became an adrenaline junkie.  I've seen this type of thing before...mostly in the army, but other places, too.

Rick takes truly foolish chances with the venerable Beech, such as flying through storms to cut time off of his trip...Our company's prime cargo being newspapers...which "age" quickly. 

I've worked with Rick for exactly one (1) day, and I'm more than a little nervous.  As a flightline mechanic, the small company I work for requires that we mechanics get some flight time in on the aircraft we maintain...sort of a QA thing, I guess.  This means that eventually, I'll have to fly with Rick.

He's a nice enough guy, and a good conversationalist, but I have to fly with this guy.

In other words, I have to fly with this guy.

Any more chickens in that well?

Or kill me
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cainad (dec.)

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May 06, 2013, 11:45:18 PM
Yowza. Did you actually end up taking that flight?

Anna Mae Bollocks

#2
May 07, 2013, 12:32:40 AM
I don't know if there's a paycheck big enough... :x
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The Good Reverend Roger

#3
May 07, 2013, 01:12:30 AM
Quote from: Cainad on May 06, 2013, 11:45:18 PM
Yowza. Did you actually end up taking that flight?

For about a year and a half.   :lulz:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#5
May 07, 2013, 02:09:29 AM
Quote from: Cainad on May 07, 2013, 01:38:34 AM
:lulz: :horrormirth:

You can get used to anything, when you take your pay in pesos. 
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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