Kanna Sabo

Today was a sucky day of sorts. Yesterday when I looked at the board, I had a 1X1 meaning one servicing with one marshalling duty. Then when I reported in, there was a delay, apparently because the pilots had to attend a lunch. If they had to go for lunch then fly earlier then go for lunch! But no. They wanted to fly after lunch. And since they took their time in getting back, the schedule had to be pushed back. So it was pushed till late afternoon. By then, the morning shift which had come quite early was let go, basically because the time was up.

They had the majority of the manpower due to the planning based on the earlier schedule that did not have the lunch factored in. This left my shift, which had a small number of people, to cover the flying that was meant for the morning shift, and we were severely shorthanded which essentially meant that instead of a 1X1, it became a 3X2, with 2 more servicing pending. To make things worst, there were enthusiastic pilots that insisted on trying to push all the ground runs right before nightfall which is at 7pm. So we being the pawns have no choice but to squeeze what they want to do. Haiz… Damn shag from all this. Ended up doing a lot of things for nothing, because in the end, they didn’t have enough time to fly anyway. Welcome to the force that is “like nothing on earth”.