Co-worker Stereotypes

[youngblood]

DROP DEAD FRED (not to be confused with the movie)

Your dog is lost baggage .......... who cares!?! Your mother just died .......... that's nice ............ it'll still cost you $2000 to change the ticket. Your wedding dress was shredded and you haven't had the wedding yet? Well, that's what you get for checking it.

 

[JonC]

It's been a little while since I've checked in here. This is one of the funniest threads I've seen! Brought back a lot of great (or not so great) US Airways memories.

Jon C.

 

[High Iron]

ETR Eddie

This is the slave to the pie-charts and graphs who views them as either a prestige point, or a means of self-preservation. That an A/C physically makes a scheduled flight with minimal or no delay seems nearly irrelevant...the "official" clearing of the benchmark ETR is a goal unto itself. Though they know deep down the whole station vs station ETR stats contest is a flawed bogus junk-statistic ( tangible/logistic reasons and extenuating circumstances are not factored in ), they both seek whatever recognition clearing one can bring..as well as seemingly believe they will be taken out and shot at sunrise if they don't make one....whatever the reason. Cajoling and pleading sympathy for his plight to his underlings is a common trait...as is ETR roullette: Clearing an ETR for A/C which has a scheduled flight much later ( just to make the #'s ) and hoping to god there isn't a schedule switch to an earlier flight, and the whole thing will blow up in their face.

Cooler Hand Luke

These refrigerator hogs who crowd out or crush everyone else's lunch or dinner with their microwave-sized coolers. Coolers so large you'd swear they'd have their own gasoline powered R122 refrigeration units onboard, and with enough food for a week...as well as every other sundry personal item in them. I thought the whole point of a cooler was that you could keep the contents cool in a room-temperature environment :blink:

The Hero Grunge

When done with a job, in such a mad rush they can't spare a minute to wash their hands and proceed to deposit enough filth and crud all over the computer keyboards so that 1) The characters are blocked out 2) You need to wear gloves just to use a keyboard they were using. These types have also been known to use work center or breakroom desks/tables as workbenches. I half expect one of these types to plop an MEC down right next to me ( while I'm eating lunch ) and start swapping fittings and seals around. Oohh, they're soo committed! <_< Love the smell of JET A while I eat

 

[Non Rev]

PSA Paul

"Boy you sure cant get good produce out here I havent had a good avacado since i left California!" Back in california we had __________(just fill in the blank).


Piedmont Patty

We were the best airline ever. USAir just ruined us. I wish it were the old days again. I remember when___________(fill in the blank).


USAirways Ursula

We never should have bought PSA and Piedmont. We were doing just fine without them. Ed Colodny knew how to run an airline!

 

[noname]

PSA Paul

"Boy you sure cant get good produce out here I havent had a good avacado since i left California!"    Back in california we had __________(just fill in the blank).
Piedmont Patty

We were the best airline ever.  USAir just ruined us.  I wish it were the old days again.  I remember when___________(fill in the blank).
USAirways Ursula

We never should have bought PSA and Piedmont.  We were doing just fine without them.  Ed Colodny knew how to run an airline! 

[post="265735"][/post]​

Produce in CA is better! Piedmont was the best!
2 out of 3 ain't bad

 

[EyeInTheSky]

Produce in CA is better! Piedmont was the best!
2 out of 3 ain't bad

[post="265800"][/post]​

Definitely the produce I agree with. You're right, the Piedmont region of Italy is best. I have no idea why an airline in North Carolina got that name

 

[calibrator]

Get a Bigger Hammer Rob the Mechanic


Always critical of his fellow co-workers saying he can do it better when all they can do is get a bigger hammer. This guy was from CA and talked like a surfer dude while he pretended to have the libido of an 18 year old always talking sex when he was short fat and half bald pushing 60. He ended up getting on at GE while the other hammer carrying mechanics looked on in envy and disbelief….true story. He is one of many characters I’ll never forget who worked at U.

 

[hharotz]

Flight Is Full Frank

Doesn't matter what you ask Frank his response to everything is: the flight is full. Frank you want to go on break now? "Right now? But the flight is full." Can I change my seat to a window? Frank doesn't even bat an eye before he says "No. The flight is full." Is the flight ontime? "Well the flight is full." Frank you want to do the arrival? "OK, but the flight is full!"

OA Annie

Annie's husband works for another airline (usually AA/UA or DL). You wonder what the hell she is doing at USAir, since she goes on breaks with the girls from Delta, has no friends at US and when she does talk to her coworkers its always about the BBQs and weddings of her friends at other airlines. When she works counter she will take the furthest position, the one that is adjacent to the neighboring carrier and will chat with their employees for her whole shift. She knows all the dirt on everyone else in the airport (their divorces, financial problems, etc...) but knows nothing about the people she has worked with for 20 years!

Starbucks Stephanie

Always bitching about the concessions, yet is always seen sipping a $5 Starbucks Caramel Macchiato at her workstation. The Baristas greet her by name and you feel worthless when you order just a drip coffee when you go for coffee with her. Talks your ear off about not being able to pay her electric bill, but then brags about spending $15 per shift at Starbucks!

 

[fatherof2]

How about Dumb "Arse" Bruce?
Took a job as CEO of an airline, even though he had no airline experience.
His claim to fame was that he served on a Navy Sub. (probably the Nautilas at Disneyland before they shut the ride down.) B)

 

[700UW]

LMAO!

 

[calibrator]

How about Dumb "Arse" Bruce?
Took a job as CEO of an airline, even though he had no airline experience.
His claim to fame was that he served on a Navy Sub. (probably the Nautilas at Disneyland before they shut the ride down.) B)

[post="265825"][/post]​

Very true and that applies to Bronner as well. The "only" thing those two clowns have in common is they are money men and believe that somehow that makes running an airline possible when in reality we all see the fruits it is producing. Bruce hates it at U yet keeps coming to work, stupid does...Bronner looks to be a wanta-to-be Donald Trump who is lacking everything it takes, mostly scruples.

The world is filled with strange people. I have worked at a lot of places and it never ends with the characters you run into.

I am as strange to some as they are to me is a truth everyone can say.

 

[usairways_vote_NO]

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[700UW]

Welcome back, been in Iowa?

 

[757fixer]

Blister Bob

Shows up after the work is done.

 

[avek00]

Cockroach Carl

Is a proud member of the passengers' union, and believes that US employees should give blood if necessary to keep the airline flying. Loves to pledge loyalty to US while flying on $1.86 base fares. Will write up staff to Consumer Affairs for even the smallest transgressions.