Re: Just out of curiosity,


"Sheldon Harper" <sharper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"gfulton" <lbfulton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Actually, I'm no farmer. Not by a long shot.

By mentality you're much less than a farmer. I have respect for
a real farmer who makes a successful living farming.

I run
a bushhog, cut trees and plant lettuce to get away from the
"intellectual stimulation" of my real job. I'm an airline avionics
technician. This is one of my offices:
http://www.avsim.com/pages/1299/chaffin/a330cpt.jpg Along with
B767-200's, B737-300's, A319/320/321, etc. And it's decidedly_not_90%
low tech. Guaranteed to be 100% high tech.

Bull*** flows freely all over usenet in which your posts are an
island of congealed rancid floating grease.

Nonsense. You're a parts changer following a simple procedure in a
manual. You pull a unit, change it out with another one, and tag the
defective one for shipment (by someone a little higher tech than you)
to the manufacturer for repair. Then someone else checks your work to
make sure the equipment you put in actually works, and then signs off
the log book to clear the complaint. The equipment you're working on
is high tech, but nothing you do qualifies as such.

Now if you told me you had a bench job troubleshooting and repairing
the equipment itself I'd have at least raised eyebrows and let
loose an "oh?" but as matters stand you're no different from a tire
changer except you're a bit cleaner when you leave work to go home.

If the fauult is in a wiring harnass, or a connector, at fault they
send in someone more qualified than you to make the repairs.

You started all this horn
blowing, so I've got to say that after a long and rewarding career, I'm
damned good at what I do and well paid for it.

So tell us, who signs off your work in the log book? You're a
technician, that means someone else is actually "responsible."

When there's more than
300 souls on board crossing the cold Atlantic, and you just repaired
that chronic problem on the dual channel digital autopilot sytem that
controls localizer beam acquistion and pitch axis dampening on the
glideslope, you had better know just exactly what you're doing.

LOL No comment. You wanted that paragraph, STET.

But you wouldn't know much about that with your 90% low tech
operation would you?

Actually I would, jackass. Early in my career I acquired an A&P
(airframe and powerplant certification) which served me well to
help support a growing family while I was continuing my education.
I consider those days the lowest tech period in my career. I went
on into R&D in aerospace, quite a fun place to be.

Had I stayed in aviation I'd have been your superior, and you
might not have a job at all. LOL

snip

I'm just a hard headed old Marine
and Vietnam combat veteran and have never been able to suffer fools
gladly.

It is a long stretch to recognize you as a well disciplined Marine.
Reading your posts, you don't demonstrate the self discipline that
an experienced Marine has. Vietnam and the insanity of the tour I
readily believe, it continues to come blazing through, though it
seems more likely you spent that period in some other service.

Remember guys like me that "don't comprehend most of
what you're talking about" the next time you're 36,000 over that cold
Atlantic.

I'll be sure to ask to check the log book just to make certain
you've not had your hands on the plane I intend to board. Oh, but
wait, your name wouldn't appear there! You're not responsible!

Other people tell you what the problem is, what part to change
out, and then inspect your work to make sure you got it right.
A parts man hands you the needed equipment. You trot out to the
plane, swap it out, take the old one back to the parts man,
put a tag on it (or perhaps the parts man does that too?),
fill in the blanks on a work order, and turn it in so they can
give you another assignment.

I hate to tell you this, but the low tech guys that will be
refurbishing the concrete core drills are higher tech than
that.

You've made it even more clear in this post of yours that you
don't comprehend most of what you're talking about. You blather
and armwave like a windmill, but in the end there's nothing there
but a tire changer who made it into the cockpit to change out
parts there. I have more respect for a guy who actually runs
machinery like a brushhog or a chain saw than I do for parts
changers.

It is nice that you're making a good living. I've always thought
certain niches are overpaid. You seem to have latched into one
of those, much like those guys in downtown Chicago pushing the
barrel on wheels with a couple of brooms and a shovel sweeping
the Miracle Mile streets by hand. I don't begrudge society a
few mistakes of overpaying for common labor.

Say Hi! to Alice, OK?



Well done, Harper. God, I hit a nerve again. Bullseye. Outstanding rant.
I'm at work between jobs and just had to bring 3 other guys in the shop to
read this. One guys says," Who's doing all this troubleshooting and
telling me which components are bad?" Another,"Who's been signing off all
my logbooks?" "Which one of you guys has been sneaking out there and
inspecting my work". "Who's this guy coming in here finding all our shorted
wire runs?" Brought the house down, I'll tell ya'. One guy said,"If
ignorance was bliss, this guy'd be a blister". I hope you're not going to
bill us for all this laughter therapy. Bud, you better stick to your
drills, or something you know something about. Avionics repair in a line
environment_ain't_one of them. Please, do yourself a favor and learn a
little something about duties, responsibilities, certification, and job
requirements of the next occupation you expound on. You really showed some
abysmal ignorance of this one.
Arrogance and ignorance are a bad combination, bud. Sure hope you get over
yourself before you get to be my boss.
A friend from several years ago I corresponded with from this newsgroup
warned me that it had been totally stunk up by the likes of you. Spot on,
she was. Well, this has been fun. But I've got to get on with my ignorant
parts changing, intellectually uninspiring life. "An island of congealed
rancid floating grease". Oh, well done, tough guy. Well done, indeed, but
I'm out of here. Going to miss stuff like that, though. Listen closely and
I'll bet you can hear the pop, pop of the rotor blades closing in on you,
bud. Maybe when I get some spare time we can do it again.


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