DelphinDriver
Midlifecrisis
- Joined
- May 22, 2005
- Posts
- 41
As a line pilot for Avantair and in light of our new hire class I hope to make a suggestion that may help us to avoid the pitfalls that Mr. BTDI felt he experienced here at Avantair. I understand paperwork is the enemy of all pilots but please help me tailor this report to fit the fractional industry.
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Among my least favorite people in the world are the whiners. They see all the negative angles of a situation and they always find something to complain about. But the worst effect their whining can do is when their pessimism starts to grow on you too.
What seems to be the simplest strategy is the hardest thing to do. You can think you can ignore them but in reality it gets on your nerves and it gives you added stress. But just like a pathetic joke, if you don’t give it a laugh or even a snicker, it’ll just die. Except for in the case of Mr. BTDI who constantly seems to wish harm publicly on a job that many of us enjoy.
If your stuck on a tour with this type of pilot give your support. Whiners need support and they whine because they’re crying out for help. Offer what you can do to help and lessen their reason to complain.
Whine just for fun. Just to show them how annoying and infuriating their whining is, give them a dose of their own medicine.
Tell them casually by bringing it up on a long repo, During FBO waits or at the hotel bar, you can tell them about it.
Or, you can talk to them seriously about it so they know that you’re serious about it too. You don’t have to report them to the HR department before you tell them that you have a problem with what they do. If nothing else works contact pro standards and let your piers talk with this person so as not to involve management. When stuck in the cockpit with no escape one of the worst things is to have a fellow pilot bombard you with their relentless perception of how horrible things are, especially if this person happens to be your Captain. Whatever happened to conversations being about the opposite sexes body parts?
Don’t complain about your job but do it well. Be excellent in your job. If you consistently shine with your outputs the whiners will feel a bit of embarrassment on how they act towards their own work load. They’ll soon realize that whining won’t get them anywhere. Or maybe not.
Also Mr. BTDI has stated time and time again how there are many unhappy Avantair pilots, this simply is not true, we have the normal ratio of whiners to proffessionals, just a fact of life that most of us learned in our teens.
http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv37/punkrockHR/hurt-feelings-report.jpg
Among my least favorite people in the world are the whiners. They see all the negative angles of a situation and they always find something to complain about. But the worst effect their whining can do is when their pessimism starts to grow on you too.
What seems to be the simplest strategy is the hardest thing to do. You can think you can ignore them but in reality it gets on your nerves and it gives you added stress. But just like a pathetic joke, if you don’t give it a laugh or even a snicker, it’ll just die. Except for in the case of Mr. BTDI who constantly seems to wish harm publicly on a job that many of us enjoy.
If your stuck on a tour with this type of pilot give your support. Whiners need support and they whine because they’re crying out for help. Offer what you can do to help and lessen their reason to complain.
Whine just for fun. Just to show them how annoying and infuriating their whining is, give them a dose of their own medicine.
Tell them casually by bringing it up on a long repo, During FBO waits or at the hotel bar, you can tell them about it.
Or, you can talk to them seriously about it so they know that you’re serious about it too. You don’t have to report them to the HR department before you tell them that you have a problem with what they do. If nothing else works contact pro standards and let your piers talk with this person so as not to involve management. When stuck in the cockpit with no escape one of the worst things is to have a fellow pilot bombard you with their relentless perception of how horrible things are, especially if this person happens to be your Captain. Whatever happened to conversations being about the opposite sexes body parts?
Don’t complain about your job but do it well. Be excellent in your job. If you consistently shine with your outputs the whiners will feel a bit of embarrassment on how they act towards their own work load. They’ll soon realize that whining won’t get them anywhere. Or maybe not.
Also Mr. BTDI has stated time and time again how there are many unhappy Avantair pilots, this simply is not true, we have the normal ratio of whiners to proffessionals, just a fact of life that most of us learned in our teens.
