Snowy560

I enjoyed this BBC video:


BBC - Capital - Do you have a pointless job?

scrubbedexpat091

I liked it and does seem the less people do in some jobs the more they are paid and head scratcher as to why those positions exist.

I would say my job isnt pointless after all flights cant leave without being unloaded and loaded and pushed off the gate.

But at the same time in 8 hours we only work about 5 to 5.5 hours so we have a fair amount of down time where we have nothing to do.

No flights no work to be done.

BristolUK

I thought it was more technical than that. At the very least someone needs to wind the propeller to twist that giant elastic don't they?

scrubbedexpat091

Pulaski

My job leads directly to me getting paid every two weeks. There is absolutely nothing pointless about that!

jennellapea

No wonder all the bag guys are always going outside for a smoke.

scrubbedexpat091

One reason...lol

But it's just how the job is, if there is no flight on the ground, there isn't going to be work..

We don't have fancy break room, but when I used to work for an actual airline we had couches, TVs with cable, vending machines in our break room since we only worked 50-60% of our shift and the rest was waiting around for flights.

But when a flight is on the ground you will work really hard. And it's not easy stacking bags in small places such as belly of planes..lol

Shard

BBC - Capital - The jobs where career success means drinking at work

Drinking culture a necessity! Don't I know it. Is it the same in Toronto, Calgary, etc?

Aviator

Likewise my job had some point. You can load and unload all day, push back whatever you like, but if we ain't in the pointed bit, it is not going anywhere.

magnumpi

That may change when Tesla start making planes

Pulaski

How many flying hours do Predator pilots get credited with?

Zoe Bell

i used to have a pointless job. Now I serve an evil corporation, I do consider it a life's ambition fulfilled

Aviator

Not my worry anymore!

Oink

I guess it's not pointless as people and stuff have to go places but you got to feel for pilots. That's got to be a most mind-numbingly boring job though. Thirty years of driving back and forth, you must of prayed for a hurricane or highjacking just to relive the tedium.

caretaker

Everybody's got to be somewhere, man.
Nikolai Bukharin: Theory and Practice From The Standpoint of Dialectical Materialism