Secrets of your trade.

When something breaks or malfunctions, the aircraft “goes tech”.

You might assume this means the aircraft is unserviceable until the fault is fixed by an engineer. Not always. Sometimes, an engineer will assess the fault and decide that fixing it can wait. If the Captain agrees, the aircraft will operate flights with loads of paying passengers despite having a technical fault.

If the aircraft has gone tech it is not fit to fly.

Aircraft can and often do fly with technical faults, but they won't be classed as 'tech' because tech refers to not being able to fly.

A/C are very rarely 'deep cleaned'

Once had a pax with severe case of diarrhoea, I'm talking seats....carpeted aisles....galley floors....cubicle walls....

Jet was still turned around in 35 mins and boarding the next happy lot of guests🤔

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Thank you! I always wondered that! X

The official language of aviation is English so that is spoken in ATC worldwide. However, pilots flying in their own country at quieter airports and airfields may be heard using their native language. Whether that is actually allowed, I don't know.

ATC people I have a question. What language do you communicate in?! I wondered if all pilots speak English?! How does everyone communicate across the sky’s with all the language barriers

I can’t read any more flying ones...till after Wednesday when I’m off to Tenerife.
We flew a year today in the middle of a snowstorm and got hit by lightning.

Someone was with my mum for which I am forever grateful.
Miss her so much.
Dementia robbed us of our last years together and it’s been over two now.

Lovely thread.
I love reading about what goes on in industries that are a bit different.

I used to rent my villa in Florida. Thankfully I never saw what went on between a guest leaving and my arrival . My cleaners saw to that.
There’s often comments about owners putting prices up at popular times. No, that’s what it cost to cover mortgage, council tax, electric for your aircon and washers and driers so you didn’t take all your dirty washing home. There was the tv company, the telephone company, the water company, the security company. The advertising company. The accountant. The income tax . The pool guy. The Gardiner. The management company and the cleaner. If there was any money left in the pot then that renewed bedding, towels, cutlery, crockery. It provided a tv and CD player in every bedroom ( 4) and one in the lounge.
Internet access.
Snooker tables, football tables, games, books
Hot tub
Repairs, painting, maintenance, carpets throughout the whole house cleaned twice a year

What we all did was discount our winter weeks to get people over when the weather could be a bit iffy....£600pw for 8 people was a bargain . One family paid for one week and the other the second week.
£500 in winter ( or maybe less when I first started up) Bargain

There’s a lot of competition out there...so if your villa got tired then you didn’t get repeaters.

@Puzzledandpissedoff I'm in a residential home rather than on a ward (and work permanent nights). We always try and allocate one member of staff (day and night) to sit with the resident if we feel it won't be long. I would say 9 times out of 10, in our home, we will be with the person.

@HappyStripper Where do you buy stripper heels? I'd love to have a pair that I can wear for more than 5 minutes!

Felicitybeedle that's interesting,my mum didn't have dementia but was in an elderly persons ward, and only moved to that side room ibher last few hours perhaps the butterfly notice meant that.. .. Actually the nurse did open the window for "fresh air" after she had left us ..at the time I thought it was a bit odd ..

I too have been in numerous abattoirs and think it is baseless to say the animals '100%' know they are going to die. This smacks of not truly understanding animal behaviour, and is a bit arrogant, since we actually have no definitive idea of what animals think.

If they are scared, it is because they are taken away from everything that has been familiar. On-farm slaughter would be far more preferable. Sheep in particular have a flocking instinct, which means do-gooders who try to prevent animals seeing other animals die up the stress levels for them by separating them from other sheep first. Good abattoirs gather the sheep in groups, then touch each with the electric tongs to stun. The sheep wont react to this (naturally herdmates would be eaten by wolves or drop dead next to their mates).

I had a job once which meant dealing with the very small number of bull calves which are still shot at birth. This was an anathema to me but i did it without comment because i do not shy away from the difficult bits and want to research as much as possible. But i did whatever i could for those boys and was even pleased when i was on duty at that time because i could handle them quietly and gently and hold and stroke them as they were shot at least.

Hmm let’s see, it’s kinda hard to think of what people outside of sex work related industries would find interesting but I’ll rattle off a few things as this thread has been great. I’m a stripper by the way.

We much prefer “creepy old men” to young guys. Everyone always asks how we deal with having to dance for older guys or people we don’t find attractive but really they’re always way more polite and respectful. Plus they’re more likely to have money to spend.

Men’s aftershave on your down there’s after shaving really helps prevent razor burn (though of course only on front bits, nothing near actual genitalia).

Most men, no matter their age, have no clue how to pleasure women. You’ll have someone rubbing your thigh thinking they’re “hitting the spot” and getting you all worked up.

Strippers don’t wear glitter. You don’t want to be leaving trails of it on the guys.

Stripper heels are really comfy. My work shoes are 7 inches but because of the platform they feel like 3-4, plus they have a full inch of padding on the footbed. I can wear stripper heels all day but can barely go an hour in normal ones.

Thanks newsername if you're sticking a needle in I'm already freaking out so oh well. My booking bloods and 12 week blood were rolled together to limit the trauma I caused a scene and ended up with an audience of doctors and nurses standing at the door to see who was being tortured

A few insiders notes...the panam Lockerbie aircraft was was laid almost pieced together decades after the crash inside an air craft hanger
Commerical kitchens and roaches!!
Being paid for signing death certs in the mortuary referred to as going to the 'cash point' (as cash paid for each signing)

Teachers hate giving detentions. We are in detention too. Believe it or not we are trying to help the pupil learn a valuable life lesson, not trying to punish or humiliate them. As pp said, teachers’ favourites are often the cheeky ones, mainly because they make you laugh. Boys are far more forgiving than girls and almost never hold a grudge after you tell them off; teenage girls, on the other hand, may hate you forever.

From my uncle an aircraft engineer.

When maintenance or repairs are carried out on the aircraft as with anything in life sometimes you have a few nuts and bolts left over. These are called "weee bolts" because you say "weee" as you throw them in a bucket in the corner of the hanger

@triggers34 was going to give the same fact from my time working in a wedding dress shop.

Young people's support work.
It is absolutely unbelievable how much shit some people have to go through in life and how resilient they can be. And heartbreaking when it's too much. Like other posters have mentioned, the support of colleagues and a dark sense of humour is vital.

@laksa2meryls
I can’t comment on the side room but the butterfly on the door generally means that someone is confused/has a dementia diagnosis. It means we will treat them in a certain way, so we start every conversation reminding them who we are and what we do, we talk more slowly and explain what we are doing for them in small steps so they wont get all the information at once and forget it. There are more things to it, but they are the important ones

I have nothing interesting to add really.

Except : people abroad are not as territorial about mugs as Brits are. In fact, they don't even bother having a personal mug at work

Great thread 😁

My jobs boring(pubs), but I don't want this thread to die!
Ice machines are vile, almost never cleaned and often mouldy ( I was the only person in my old job who bothered to learn to do it- I left two years ago, not been done since).
We have to clean up after you, so when we/bouncers ask you to leave we're not spoiling your fun, we still have another 1-2hours of work to do. In big chains we will probably be on the morning shift too, so 6-7 hours between shifts. Many big chains only pay to a set time too, so we don't get paid after XXX time, but still have to complete tasks.
A 20p tip is better than none, if everyone tippped 20p the unpaid hours would even out, and we will be more patient. Being nice and polite trump's tips, as does bringing empties back to the bar.
I now work with male only customers (except functions/occasions). Drunk men are boring, and most very courteous. They are more relaxed than when in the company of wives/gf's, there's always more trouble when partners are around then when men only.

Photographer here: purple is the most difficult colour to photograph accurately which is why I hate it when brides choose purple flowers.
Also, the reason you don't get every single photograph we take is because we are trying to cherry pick the best images to give you a beautiful story of your day. And NO, we won't give you the RAW files. That's the equivalent of giving you the negatives, thus taking away our copyright to those images. Oh and no it's not the expensive camera that takes good pictures, it's me!!! I have that camera so I can avoid using flash in really bad light and still give you great pictures. Oh and no we don't charge extra just because it's a wedding. Weddings are very labour intensive, and require a lot of man hours pre and post event which is why a good photographer isn't cheap!