Secrets of your trade.

[Confusedfornow]

I have worked in my current area of expertise for the last 20 years or so. It's in Aviation, can't say exactly what or for who as it's a relatively small community (for my role) and it would be VERY outing. Before this, my only other "job" that I did for a few years was dancing (yes, that kind ). So I don't have massive experience of the world of work.

But I was chatting with some people in a bar over the weekend and conversation turned to jobs and then to my role. I was telling them about some stuff which is perfectly normal to me, but was absolutely news to them.

For instance . .

When a plane is "parked" and everything is switched off, the aircraft is referred to as being "Cold and dark".

If a helicopter has engine failure, it won't just fall out of the sky. The pilots are trained in a procedure called "autorotation" and can usually land safely even if the engine isn't running at all.

All British Airways flights use the call sign "Speed Bird". It's unique and no other airline in the world uses it.

Last one . .

Pilots can't wear polarised sunglasses. They make the electronic displays on the flight deck appear black, and you can't read any information from them.

So, what do you know from your jobs that is mundane for you but which most people wouldn't have a clue/be surprised by?

Another dentist one.

If your dentist has a certificate on the wall with an award for
‘ best dental practice 2018”
Or “ most caring dental team “ or suchlike ,

These are awards in which the dentist PAYS to nominate themselves, they take a table at the “awards dinner” costing up to £100 a head :the dental press are there taking photos.
The “judges” will have never even met the dentist or been to the practice.

The awards ceremony organiser makes several thousand £ in one evening and the practice gets a night out with an “ award “ thrown in .

Like a toddler’s birthday party, just about everyone gets a prize.

It’s a money making exercise in self promotion and vanity.

snottynosedsheila
Yes to both your queries!
Any big metabolic upset/illness around late pregnancy/ birth/ early months can often cause a disruption to the teeth that are developing at that time.

The molars thing - there are several factors in gum disease but a lot of it is hereditary. You minimise the progression of gum disease by scrupulous oral hygiene and not smoking.
Hope that helps !

Tell all your friends

Habitually Smoking hash/weed/grass whatever is very likely to make your teeth fall out.

I work in theatres (surgical) and I can assure you all that we take the best care we possibly can of Everyone. Organ harvests are so incredibly sad and also heartwarming but it is so fast and brutal at times as unless it the patient died on an icu it has to be incredibly fast, in fact most of the organs procured from uk donors come from patients on life support.

Happy to answer any questions about theatre

And please make sure that your relative is actually already dead before you ring to make an appointment to register their death.

And there is a story that I think we all want to hear the rest of!

Calling all hospital medics - my geriatric mother is constantly in hospital and prides herself on being rude to all the staff as she thinks this is how she will get her own way.

What gifts can I bring into the wards for the staff to accompany my apologies? I don’t want to bring in biscuits as they are not the healthiest. When I say rude, I mean very rude.

@Obloodyhell a fruit platter would be amazing, or lots of tea and coffee but nice stuff as the coffee we get at work is maxwell house and shockingly bad!

And please make sure that your relative is actually already dead before you ring to make an appointment to register their death.

please make sure that your relative is actually already dead before you ring to make an appointment to register their death

Anyone else reminded of the scene in Addams Family Values, where Debbie says to the official "I'll be a widow"??

There is a swimming pool in Redditch that uses the heat from the crematorium across the road to heat the pool. Actually a really good idea as it is the waste heat as they have to cool the fumes down to a certain temperature before they can be released into the atmosphere because they need to condense any mercury (or something along those lines). I worked on the engineering of the swimming pool and it caused a bit of delay getting people to agree as some people didn't like the idea of dead bodies heating the pool they were swimming in.

@MollysLips agreed about the beauty sales! I'm the person who lays it all out and sets the prices and people will literally try and sneak in before it opens, will hide things behind cupboards, will grab a whole armful and sort it in their office - fucking maniacs!

I get some nice shit though.

@GorkyMcPorky junior doctors stopped getting ash cash in a lot of places two years ago - I had some disgruntled friends who would use it for night out monies.

Thanks newyoiker. Nice tea and coffee coming up!!

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@puzzzled and smotherofffive - yes, completely agree, charities could help but there's often no time to organise it and nobody really cares enough to do it. You'd need to pay someone to spend a good 10 days or so organising this and nothing else, and Productions won't pay for that. Once a Production wraps, staff start leaving for other jobs immediately.

With putting up signs - fine for people working in the studio, but most are too busy to find the time to go and look at stuff, or don't want it, and obviously no members of the public are allowed to come and collect stuff due to confidentiality/security.

I have tried and tried on Productions and have managed to get lots of stuff donated, but this generally has to be organised 'in your own time' and not whilst you're on the clock. When you're working 14 hour days and 11 day fortnights with an awful lot of other urgent work to do, you don't have much time left to dedicate to it.

Midwives... one thing I am curious about is how things are when it comes to yourself giving birth?

Does your knowledge mean you do anything particularly differently to other women, or know any special tips or tricks etc?

Do you bother with your own birth plans or do you put yourself firmly in the hands of the medical staff to make the best decisions? Do you feel your knowledge gives you better access to informed choice and involvement in the birth than other women?

And also- do you give birth where you work? Everyone always says dignity goes during childbirth but it’s okay because you pick it up again on the way out the door. But obviously if you’re in your workplace then you have to go back and work alongside the midwives/drs/etc who saw you in that state of ‘no dignity’. Does it feel awkward??

In the event of a nuclear "incident" there is absolutely a plan to save major politicians in various pre-equipped bunkers. Because of course in the event of a nuclear winter, radiation and the collapse of civilised society what we really need to survive are politicos over engineers, doctors, trades, armed forces ....

Especially not given recent events - they'll be in the bunker 10yrs after the nuclear bomb has gone off trying to decide when/ if to leave

@olddentist what of my pp? Thoughts? I wondered if maybe you'd missed it?

Hermione I am so tempted to add the logistics of salvaging post-production gear to my current role, because of the sheer waste, and the massive lost benefit!

Especially not given recent events - they'll be in the bunker 10yrs after the nuclear bomb has gone off trying to decide when/ if to leave

🤣🤣🤣

@fluffylittleclouds

I’m a midwife but I’ve never given birth, but your post made me think.

Does your knowledge mean you do anything particularly differently to other women, or know any special tips or tricks etc?

I think we understand the importance of eating, drinking and mobilising. And we’ve probably got a better idea of when is too early to go to hospital.

Do you bother with your own birth plans or do you put yourself firmly in the hands of the medical staff to make the best decisions? Do you feel your knowledge gives you better access to informed choice and involvement in the birth than other women?

I’d certainly make ‘birth preferences’, and I’d trust my colleagues to implement them as best as possible. Well, most of my colleagues. That’s another secret - I’d totally pick my midwife, and I’d probably refuse to let some come near me!

And also- do you give birth where you work? Everyone always says dignity goes during childbirth but it’s okay because you pick it up again on the way out the door. But obviously if you’re in your workplace then you have to go back and work alongside the midwives/drs/etc who saw you in that state of ‘no dignity’. Does it feel awkward??

I’d absolutely give birth at my unit. Sure, flashing your vag to a room full of people whilst off your tits on drugs sounds undignified, but there are ways of giving women little bits of control and respect throughout the process. Little things like covering the nether regions with a sheet, or whipping away a poo before anyone else realises it’s been done, or providing choices. If your midwife isn’t doing those things then she’s very bad at her job - I wouldn’t expect a better standard of care just because they’re my mates.

Oh and also - I reckon being a midwife would (does!) give me the balls to argue with doctors more. There’s a general belief that doctors are more knowledgeable than midwives by virtue of them being doctors, but this just isn’t true. The average band 6 midwife has far more knowledge and experience than a SHO or crap junior reg.

you put yourself firmly in the hands of the medical staff to make the best decisions

This ^

Do you find as a midwife that many hand over their birth of their baby as if its the midwife's birth? That the DM thinks her baby's birth is not hers, but belongs to the medical team? Like she couldn't give birth?

Does that make sense?

Like the first person to hold the baby is the midwife rather than the DM or df? Always strikes me a bit odd that medics take over in that sense, that DMs handover that and are just participants rather than the lead in their own delivery? Classic things like lying on your back to birth when that keeps the pelvis more closed at the back.

@Accountant222 your company was wrong to pay suppliers late but what you describe would not have been committing fraud and fiddling the results.
This is because the bank balance shown on the financial statements would have been adjusted to reflect the balance after all payments had cleared. The balance at the bank is not the final balance you see on a balance sheet. It would have been the actual balance at the bank less the 250m. So the timing difference of clearing payments is taken into account.
Basic double entry and also accounting software prevents this type of fraud.
You can't have a debit without a credit. So you cannot pay a supplier without showing the other side which would be reducing the bank balance (as shown on the accounting software and balance sheet).
This is reflected in the accounting equation:
Assets = liabilities + shareholders equity
The balance sheet would not balance otherwise.
There are many other ways to fiddle the year end results but not that way. Also a company that size would be audited each year to try to find any obvious ones!
HTH