Shafted

Been a lil Behind on blogging lately due to limited net Access out here in Zurich. Was told by my company that I have to go there to complete my Airbus training and while we are here to help out on the maintenance jobs of our aircraft that have been sent here.

But now I'm here its clear everything is a total lie. For a start they have not even bothered to plan any training for us out here and while we are here those maintenance jobs we are to do are not on our aircraft but fixing a totally different companies aircraft. And to make it more frustrating for us all they are old models of aircraft. Planes that are on their way out and thus totally pointless gaining experience on. Not that we are getting any as it is. All the jobs given to us are menial tasks. Take my past week at work for example. I spent the past few days removing floor boards and then scraping rubber sealant off the floor boards. ALL week!!! 40 hours of mind numbing boredom.

Also our shifts are totally messed up. Some weeks we do a 4 day 8 hour AM shift then some weeks it would be a week of PM shifts or maybe night shifts, or sometimes a mixture of all three. Other times you would do 7 straight nights, spanning 2 weeks. Sounds messed up doesn't it? Well put it this way I was given 2 charts/tables which I have to cross reference to find out which days i am working... For Christ sakes what is wrong with the time honoured 4 days on 4 days off system every outfit in the UK seems to use?

What makes it worse is not just how we all have been lied to but how we have all been fucked over. The local guys here get extra money for night shifts, we don't. They get extra for weekend work, we dont. And now a bunch of guys from Dublin have come over and they get ALL expenses here paid for. Anything they spend money on they get it reimbursed, we don't. Add to that they get 2x pay for every hour they work here. We don't...

Sums it up I guess.