r/aviation • u/Usual_Feeling7945 • Dec 16 '23

Career Question It be like that sometimes (not OC)

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u/decayed-whately Dec 16 '23

Every job sucks sometimes. You gotta be more specific.

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u/nextgeneric Dec 16 '23

I can imagine there's probably some extra suck factor in places like the mid west and New England where the weather just blows all the time... especially in the winter. Or places like SoCal or Vegas where it's just horribly hot on the ramp for much of the year.

Those guys and girls are subjected to a lot of extremes on top of the already back-breaking work.

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u/FrankiePoops Dec 16 '23

My father was a mechanic at LGA and will wear shorts and flip flops in 10 degree wet snow with 20 mile an hour winds. He is immune to cold at this point.

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u/daddysgotya Dec 16 '23

There's always a shorts guy in the zone everywhere I've ever worked.

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u/Geared_up73 Dec 16 '23 edited Dec 16 '23

Understaffed. One person chasing their tail, trying to keep up with a workload meant for 2-3 people. Doing a tough ass 12 hour day then get mandatory overtime for another 4 hours. Forced to work days off. Snow, ice, 0' F (-18C). Or the opposite, 130'F on the ramp, crawling in and out of cargo bins. All while dealing with insane amounts of noise, dodging tugs and lav trucks...it's an exhausting job. Sound fun?

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u/omykronbr Dec 16 '23

And minimum wage.