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?

Presumably what you mean is that there are several factories - some that peel and blend actual fruit, and some that mix it into smoothies.

I love the thought of a strawberry factory that takes in tonnes of strawberries, then send strawberry mulch on to further factories!!!

Big containers of liquid would surely be all the pulped fruit for bottling?!

Why would you try to say something so inflammatory (scuse the pun), but its quite a slur, and I'm still not believing it.

She’s talking BS. Just ignore her

I agree with @Mmmmbrekkie, and yes @Smotheroffive, it is a slur-
like saying McDonalds burgers don’t have beef in them- have you ever seen cows out the back?!

Part of my job is as a school attendance officer.

We begrudge sending letters and inviting parents to meetings when attendance is over 95% but below the expected target but are pushed to do it by management. Schools are under so much pressure re attendance.

Some cases are just totally draining and never improve - and usually with those cases every sibling has been the same. Poor attendance and poor outcomes in Y11.

There is some satisfaction in issuing a penalty notice to a parent who has not engaged at all and there is no legitimate reason for their child to not attend school regularly. Even more so when following this the child's attendance significantly improves (which it very often does) and as a result the progress they make in school.

Also satisfaction in catching people out lying - eg. Supposedly ill but actually on holiday. It is usually other parents or students that 'snitch' on them despite our local community being strongly anti 'snitches'. Often it's because they've put photos etc on social media. Or because when you phone them they've left their phone on and we get the international ring tone.
We respect people when they've been honest. Some holidays are authorised depending on the circumstances and we genuinely try to be as fair as we possibly can.

I used to work as a recruiter and I saw some utterly unethical behaviour... They would tell candidates that they were sending their CV off to the client for a job, but really we were only allowed to send 3 and we would quickly send our full quota. By telling other people their CV was being submitted, it made the candidate refuse to allow any other agency to represent them for the same job. So we were basically trying to fuck up the competition from making a placement...the candidates were just collateral. I don’t think candidates realise recruiters are just salespeople.

The one about dental practices etc effectively paying for awards makes me think of that poetry anthology in which the work of every child who enters is published. The parents pay £12 a pop not realising that everyone's a winner!

I thought it was common knowledge the whole 'buy an Award scam'

Nevertheless, worth spreading around for any that didn't already know what a whole heap of fraudulent tripe it is!

Amazing that some come up with such bollox just because reasons!! What a load of old shite . What is up with some people that would do that?

Treating job applicants like merchandise is quite the shit show though isn't it.

I didn't say the smoothies didn't have fruit, I said the factories don't.
By the time it gets to us where we make the finished product and bottle it, it has already been processed. We make many other bottles drinks.

People assume when i say I make those that Ian handling actual fruit and I'm not.

I've explained it wrong.

The factories that make 100% no added anything (not guilty) smoothies don't have any fruit in them

So that ^ was all one long sentence relating to the factories, I get it, butnits very misleading, because they do have fruit, in mushed (smoothies) form, so I don't understand why you made the statement,because it does sound like there is no fruit going in the bottles (if you read it back again)
and the mixture they're made of is flammable
That you call it a 'mixture' rather than a puree (smoothie) again misleading language that would suggest it's not fruit, but a flammable ..... mixture^

Try again to get across what you are trying to say

@MaybeIAmUngrateful

Still makes no sense
Sti nonsense

maybe deliberately wrote something controversial and is now trying to wriggle out of it. You thought it would be funny to say “smoothies don’t have fruit in them” - admit it.

you lot are a bit over invested in the fruit smoothie nonsense.
Does it really matter? 🤪

I Didnt say the smoothies don't have fruit, i said the factories that make them. Like I said, people assume I work with fruit and I don't. Usually people are surprised.

I explained it badly, I'll admit that

Midwives, how do you know over the phone that someone is ready to come in? I'd only had labour pains for around an hour or so before I rang but they were hard and heavy from the beginning. When I was on the phone to the midwife I threw up and she said, have you been sick? Time to come in. I was 3cm when I arrived and stayed but my contractions never became regular even at the end, some were 1 minute apart and some were 20. It was a quick labour.

I also fished my baby out the water.

Next time I don't think I want that injection that helps you give birth to the placenta. It made me feel HORRIFIC, can I say I don't want it or is it necessary?

My midwife was amazing, she was a couple of years above me at school in my brother's year and went to the same first school as me, barely saw her as laboured in the bath then when I moved to the pool she said she was starving and I told her I was fine and to go and eat her lunch, I gave birth about 10 minutes later and she rushed in, my first question was did she get to finish her lunch and she said no

The doctor that stitched me up, I called her a bitch, I still think about it now, she wasn't a bitch but it really bloody hurt. More than giving birth.

Tesco, I'm not a midwife, but each time I have given birth, I have vomited just before delivery (and not felt sick or vomited throughout labour otherwise), so I assume it is your body getting ready to push??

It's common to vomit in transition. I had a physiologic third stage with all of mine. Plancenta came within 10 mins each time. MW had injection on hand in case of pph but wasn't needed.

Give it a rest, Smother, eh?

Don't worry about it, Maybe - FWIW, I understood your slightly confusing first post and didn't assume you were trying to start some sort of takedown of the smoothie industry

@Cel982

Perhaps you could enlighten the rest of us then!

Eh?! She's explained about four times that all she meant was that the smoothie ingredients come to the factory already processed, rather than as whole fruit. I'm not sure why that's generating so much outrage...

And you managed to get that from her first post?!

Tesco there will be a midwife along no doubt to tell you properly re the injection after birth. However I asked for something different the second time. Whatever I had the first time made me hysterical, lightheaded and sick. I mentioned it to midwife and they put it on my notes and had something different- no dramas the second time.

I used to work in a high street bank and we were under so much pressure to sell. It was ridiculous. Even if someone came in in tears because they couldn't afford their mortgage we had to try and sell something.
I always remember an elderly lady who came in with a credit card which she'd been 'sold' in my branch and taking money out ob it then not realising what she was getting charges for.
She had thousands and thousands in her current account so there was no need for her to use a credit card but she'd been sold it without realising and got into trouble with it.
I hated working there