What do you say when people ask who you work for?

[njcapt]

That is what I am saying, the way you are wording it makes it sound like you are being rude. The people I am wondering about are people like neighbors, and friends, and friends of the family, I hate sounding secretive when they ask me about my job, as most non pilots find it very interesting.

Oh, I'm a lot more friendly with the neighbors. That response is for the clueless folks at the FBO and crew hotel who ask me. They should know better. I describe the situation in increasingly more vague terms the closer I am to the area of the world in which we normally operate.

 

[xjetav8er]

Then they ask

What kind of airplane you fly? Even though I fly a Citation X I always say "I fly a Cessna".

 

[Masterplan]

Wtf

I hate Oprah, I would be ashamed to even let people think that I worked for that woman.

Then why did you take the job?

 

[phr8dawg]

"I deliver car parts."

 

[Tgaug6300]

I always say that I fly for Nathan Arizona and that he is in the furniture business. No one ever gets it. Oh well....

Would that be Nathan Jr? Be sure not to leave the car seat on top of the plane.

 

[XLDaddy]

don't even say I fly. I just tell them my business is painting the lines on the bottom of swimming pools, without having to drain them. Patent pending of course. Either that or I'm a door to door vacuum cleaner salesman.

 

[mxer]

Ask them, "What do you know about Amway?"

 

[Cat3C]

misinformation

I usually say I'm on the pro bowler tour. Guaranteed buzzkill. You can watch the blood and interest drain from their faces.

 

[Regul8r]

Just curious how you handle this question, whether it is on the road at the FBO or someone else that you do not know that well.
I had to sign a pretty serious non-disclosure contract, as the person I work for is pretty well known, and I feel like a jerk, or someone who is trying to seem important when someone asks me who my boss is, and I have to respond with "I cant really tell you." Just wondering what you guys do to handle this question.

You'd know who'd be great to ask? The other guy you fly with.

 

[siucavflight]

You'd know who'd be great to ask? The other guy you fly with.

I did that, he said tell them whatever you want, just dont say the bosses name.
So in case you are too dense to realize what I was asking, I was asking how to handle the situation so that I do not come across as an a$$, which you apparently have no problem doing.