Thursday, 26 June 2008

Seven Days at Work: part 5

It's starting to get a bit tedious now, but I'm alright. This should be the end of a normal week, but I still have another two days left after today. The last couple of days have been more or less a complete doss. There's no one at the aiport to check up on you or who should know what task you should actually be doing, so there's a hell of a lot of slacking that goes on across the whole of BA. Each member of staff is given a mobile phone at the beginning of his shift, and is allocated tasks via this phone by a machine. So there aren't any actual humans who know what you should be doing. You might get asked by a manager what you're supposed to be doing, but you can say whatever you want. So you might supposed to be on a desk at one end of the airport, but you actually hang out down the complete other end and just loiter around 'hosting' with your mates. Yeah it's money for doing nothing, but it's soon going to get extremely tiresome. It's a wonder the airport actually works.

-J

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