by flipper 27 Replies latest jw friends
That is funny though that your employer had to start hiring workers at a higher wage because of the competition, good stuff !
It was funny making seven dollars an hour plus tips (two dollars above the norm) because I worked for some jerk off that couldn't acquire some people skills.
Though I had to quit it it he was to much to take.
Wellllllll, being an old sky hag (flight attendant for 32 yrs) I've had my ups and downs (LOL) I actually was given a hard time when I was first hired by the Cong. Although my ex had been doing it for a year he was never criticized. I have been sexually harassed (especially when I was within my expiration date). I have been spit at, hit, poked, given CPR, prepared the cabin for an emergency landing, lost engines in flight, made emergency landings, called names, been eyeballed by mgmt and and to present my nails and step on a scale b4 I was able to get on the aircraft. Have people file a lawsuit because THEY would not follow the FARs, had the Co take passengers word against the entire crew for fear of lawsuits (they almost ALWAYS settle out of court). Had fires onboard, had to cuff people out of control, had to break up fights between people, have had people die after doing CPR for over an hour, cleaned up shit, blood and puke. We only start getting paid when the main cabin door is shut and stop when it is opened. So when people say we get paid at the top level X amount of dollars for 80 hours/trips for pay you have to figue that I can be away from home for 3-4 days and nights and get 13 hours/trip. We have to report 2 hrs b4 departure but if there is a delay we are giving that time without pay as until that door is shut we are not on the clock. So for every 3-4 hours you work you might get 1 hour of pay. I watched on 9-11 as commercial aircraft plunged into buildings because our previous training was to not resist hijackers...therefore those f/as (some of them former policemen/women) had their throats slit because they were the untrained first line of defense for a new tactic. At my airline we had a guy throw the f/as around like popcorn and burst thru the cockpit door forcing the ac into a nose dive where the Capt had to issue a "mayday". Passengers pulled the guy off and beat the crap out of him until the f/a's stopped it (I would not have stopped them). He served no time as he "didn't remember the incident". People fly despite new illnesses, viruses, and disease that are no longer restricted even though it is a highly communical environment with recycled air and bad filtration. Because of contaminated recycled air many of my friends have developed neurological damages that prevent them from working at any job ever again. Despite lawsuits the airline lobby (who directs the FAA) destroyed or would not permit evidence at the trial. At my airline we had a mechanic warn that something had to be changed on the aircraft but was over ridden by the Co who did not want to loose money by taking the a/c out of service. That plane fell out of a perfectly beautiful blue sky killing all onboard including many friends of mine. Their final 15 min of life must have been beyound fear. The aircraft fell, was pulled out and they flew it upside down before it took it's final plunge. This is the only thing I know. I grew up in the business and I love airplanes. I hate the non-airline beancounters who have stolen, raped and pilliaged a great american enterprise and turned it into a hazardous non enjoyable experience for my passengers.
Does a paper cut count?
working in Advertising has it's stresses. Deadlines / revenues to meet. Difficult people to please and then staff stealing clients - that kind of thing - but it's only work stress.
Working in a jail is stressful, to say the least. So many sick inmates, and you never know when someone is going to die on you or when someone is faking an illness (sometimes you can tell,not always though). Lawsuits are a continual threat.
Re: Your Employment - Have you Been Stressed Mentally or Hurt Physically ?
Greetings Mr. Flipper,
I too, am self employed, and have the benefit of having my sons working for me. They do an impeccable job, so I can stay home, and stay in my command & control center a.k.a. The Home Office. It's one of the pleasures in my life that to some degree, I will attribute credit to being in the heinous cult, which otherwise I may have never got the opportunity to learn. Self-Employment is freedom! No stress, or physical injury here.
Dismembered
I'm a train operator for the railroad. it's vary stressfull!
I am a detention officer working with juveniles under 21. I think after doing it for 2 years its pretty stressful. We have 80 officers at our facility, jail and in 2 years 55 of them have quit or gotten fired.
We have 80 officers taking care of 80 to 120 inmates 24/7.
So of the 25 that have been there for over 2 years half of them are the brass sgts. Lts. Captains.
Out of 80 officers theres probably about 15 line officers that have been on the job 10 to 30 years.
The job pays above average for Florida and has a decent retirement and excellent benefits still there is a high turn over.
The first year I was kind of oblivious to the stress but now I am aware of it. We never know when the inmates/ youth/ tenants are going to go off, click or snap.
And my bodies been beat up from the job. I hope I can do it 7 more years. If the job beats me up to where I cant perform hopefully I can get disability. So far I lick my wounds and keep trucking with the aches and pains.
Some officers every time they get in a fight they go on disability for a month. Which is were a lot of the stress come from because when they are on disability there are fewer officers to do the job and the state doesnt replace people when they are injured they make the uninjured people workd twice as hard and 16 hour shifts.
Part of me really likes the job. And part of me views it as a day to day temporary gig. I have to look at it that way with such a high turnover. And we got the psycho controlling bosses, workmates and office politics also.
With my JW education I think this is the best job I can find and I look all the time. It is airconditioned which means a lot in Florida. We have former detention officers from Georgia working with us, they tell me in Georgia the jails and prisons they worked in do not have A/C.
I would rather do this than construction or selling cars or cutting grass. Those seem to be the other main industries here in Florida for those without college degrees.
A lot of people have it worse than I do. But you asked about my stress on the job.
If I can do 7 more years I will get a retirement on top of my social security where as 90% of the jobs here in Florida dont have a retirement. So I am going to try to stick it out.
dogisgod, I am never going to fly again !
I don't recall ever being injured on the job. When I was 16 I worked down at the beach (State job) and my supervisor did not really like me much. He always picked on me (In retrospect I think he was a closet case). One day I remember he made me go out on the boardwalk and scrape gum. That was the worst. I worked there for 2 summers.
BFD
I worked in data processing, operating the mainframe computer for a textile company. I liked my job and never felt stressed, my boss never bothered me. I trained many others to operate the computer during my 35 years doing this. I started doing this before the mainframe computers were invented, they were accounting machines that used punched cards to read the data and print reports. I wired the boards that controlled the information from the cards. There were sorters, colators, and summary machines that punched the cards back in those days.
I printed all the checks for the company and I couldn't reveal what the big wheels made. Some made $35,000 a month.
Ken P.
I had a very stressful job for 6 years, where I was also injured! Woo Hoo! I was a field engineer for a major company. This job was so stressful, and I'm not making this up, that the upper management actually had national meetings to discuss why so many of the field engineers were having heart attacks and heart problems. We were on call 24 hours a day 365 days a year and had to work sometimes 18 days in a row. At one point I was driving 400 miles a day. That, coupled with being a single dad, almost killed me. Literally. We all fantasized about having less stressful jobs like air traffic controller or bomb technician.
I bent over one day to look inside a machine and my back snapped. Everybody heard it. It sounded like somebody breaking a chicken bone. Well, I ended up in the hospital. X rays said everything was fine, doctors say everything looks good, but my back is still giving me problems 6 years later. I quit to go to work where I am now. The job I have now is stressful sometimes but it is nowhere near as bad as my last job. At least the stress here is for a point. And this new company treats me really good. The stress levels from my last job were just pointless.
