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F18Guy

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YOU MIGHT BE IN THE AVIATION/AEROSPACE INDUSTRY IF ...

1. You sat at the same desk for 4 years and worked for 8 different managers. Or have moved 10 times in two years and have never known who your boss was.
2. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.
3. Someone asks you what you do for a living and you lie.
4. You get really excited about a 2% pay increase.
5. Your biggest loss from a system crash, is that you lose your best jokes.
6. You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.
7. Its dark on your drive to and from work.
8. Fun is when "projects" are assigned to someone else.
9. Communication is something your "group" is having problems with.
10. You see a good-looking person and know it's a visitor.
11. Free food left over from a meeting is your main staple.
12. All art involves a white board.
13. All real work is done prior to 8:00am and after 4:30pm.
14. You're already late on the assignment you just received.
15. Dilbert is your favorite cartoon.
16. Your boss's favorite lines are ...

"When you get a few minutes ..."
"I have an opportunity for you ..."
"Cross-charging is forbidden."
"...the directional truth in a white water world ..."
"We have a new culture that will enable us to ..."
"We have a new engineering vice-president."
"This reorganization will allow us to streamline our way of doing business, and become more competitive."

17. 99% of the people in your company do not know what you do.
18. 99% of the people in your company do not care what you do.
19. Vacation is something you rollover to next year or a check you get every January.
20. Change is the norm.
21. Nepotism is strongly encouraged.
22. Your company announces no pay increase because it is investing money in a new aircraft development.
23. Your company announces no pay increase because the airline industry is in a downturn. And your boss gets voted "man of the year in aerospace "
24. Your fear to fly is becoming even worse.
25. Everyone at the company says that without his work there would be no aircraft.
26. An ordinary secretary has more power than an old engineer.
27. You read this entire list and understand it.
28. Not allowing firearms on company property is seen strictly as a suicide prevention measure.
 

JackW

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29. You can play buzzword bingo every day.
30. Your speech is peppered with initials and abbreviations that would totally confuse 99% of most people.

Two kinds of aircraft in the sky - F22's and targets
 

hafaday

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31. the Acronyms that you use are the same, but mean different things in different departments. and you know the difference between them. :patriot:
 

JMK

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Thats soooo true of the air force.
Just to add to the bosses favorite sayings:
"This is a new air force... we do things differently now..."

And 13 is so true! I hate day shifters!:banghead:
 

lrsafari

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See, if you had monetized the develpment cycle, instead of effectualizing the C2i initiative, you may have been able to assume the Long Tail approach to the long term economics if the current cultural framwork that has been enacted.

It's been a while since I was in "that" industry. But man, microturbines are very cool! (Tiernay Turbines early/mid 80's),

Scott
 

F18Guy

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Here is a few more things I hear a lot...

"?the long pole in the tent is?"
"?the emporer has no robe?"
"?date with a .38?"
"?synergy?value-added?commitment to ethics?paradigm thinking?battle rythym?integration of possibilities?Vision 2010, 2012, 2016...etc"

Two kinds of aircraft in the sky - F22's and targets

Roger..noted.

See, if you had monetized the develpment cycle, instead of effectualizing the C2i initiative, you may have been able to assume the Long Tail approach to the long term economics if the current cultural framwork that has been enacted.

Were you listening in to a meeting I ran yesterday? :ack:

Wow that sounds like my whole town of huntsville since we have redstone arsenal, marshall space flight center, and most of the aviation/aerospace companies employing the area.

I have considered transferring to that location...but Philly seems to have a tractor beam on me right now...LOL.
 

JohnK

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F18Guy said:
YOU MIGHT BE IN THE AVIATION/AEROSPACE INDUSTRY IF ...

19. Vacation is something you rollover to next year or a check you get every January.
At least you don't have to forfeit your vacation.
 

Jake

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oh yeah, I really got tired of hearing that "long pole in the tent" crap when I was in the Army...every supposed high speed, low drag guy has a lexicon of flavor of the month buzz words that they really have no idea of what any of them mean. most are inserted in sentences to finish thoughts and impress similarly malfunctioning superiors.