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If you found other things that would take precious time, you couldn't clear deferred items or stay on schedule.
Strong competent leads would take the heat because they knew what they were doing. The weak leads felt they needed to please their masters by having good on time departure records and removal of deferred maintenance items.
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Added for clarity to above.
If you found other things that would take precious time, you couldn't clear deferred items or stay on schedule.
Strong competent leads would take the heat because they knew what they were doing. The weak leads felt they needed to please their masters by having good on time departure records and removal of deferred maintenance items.
It is the paper pushers and bean counters that ruin the nature and safety of this industry. Airlines will do anything to increase revenues and eliminate liabilities. We know what happens to the man below the leader board in commercial aviation. The bottom line is the main target aside from filling every seat and employ new turbine technology to cut fuel consumption by 25%. Oh remember Hospitality service means you might get a smile and coffee.
You think its any better in the transit industry? Not a chance was a mechanic for 25yrs and the new young ones are even worse. Know of one lead that thought a solar powered calculator had to be recharged by sitting it in the sun. Couldn't even get a GED because he couldn't do simple math.
Oh was an A&P for several years starting out but was in GA not airlines starved to death and went into autos but never forgot my training. That caused me problems fixing cars and trucks as it either was fixed right or didn't get worked on.
automotive mechanics has become much more technical: Schematic drawings, data interpretation, basic ac & dc understanding. It's a good field to learn with a good future.
To the point of this discussion, human nature is as human nature does. It's been my experience that aspirational personalities tend to be reward driven, and a disproportionate curve seems to lie with the most influential; usually the buck stops at management level.
To the point of this discussion, human nature is as human nature does. It's been my experience that aspirational personalities tend to be reward driven, and a disproportionate curve seems to lie with the most influential; usually the buck stops at management level.
Usually at the shift lead and foreman level of management at different stations. These characters were typically ambitious to climb the ladder, wanted get off the line and out of the weather, maybe secure a better shift or better days off; some had pushy wives.
Not all leads were like this but the dangerous ones were not very competent mechanics and sought the promotion and pay increases to push paperwork or read the newspaper.
The on time numbers and clearing deferred maintenance items was their drivers. If you found other things, you couldn't clear items or stay on schedule. Strong competent leads would take the heat because they knew what they were doing. The weak leads felt they needed to please their masters.
This was thirty years ago so it didn't get better.