Gorilliaz

My 1st night shift in a long while. Was a little apprehensive of the workload as I was told this plane is covered in defects. Just shows that all these months here have taught me nothing. Most of the night was spent waiting for equipment to turn up. So most guys passed their time sleeping eating or watching movies in the crew room. "The Transporter" was tonight's prime time.

And when the equipment turned up I set about the job on my own. Didn't really need many people to do it plus I really didn't want to hold someone's hand thru the job. I rather have someone who knows what they are doing then someone I have to walk thru the job with. But later on in the job people decided to help. Which lead to the Chinese saying of "more help, more problems" As while I was recording down a reading from a test I was carrying out, I commented to 1 of the guys that the reading showed a system failure. Said guy then believed that tapping the gauge would some how give a "pass" reading. And when it didn't, he just tapped harder. And when that didn't work either. He decided to give it a good smack.... smashing the gauge... y-a-y... Can't carry on with the 3 remaining tests. Neither can we trouble shoot the failed test cos the gauge is broken... oh and its the only test kit in the whole company... well no more jobs to do tonight then...time to head home... So all in all was a pretty good night.

I know I joke about smacking things with hammers to make em work... which we, in reality do frequently... not many people take us seriously when we say there is a skill to hitting things with a hammer. Not just any old monkey can do it. Today was case in point.