Saturday, January 06, 2007

Want Quality and want to rush but there is no time

How can you expect quality work and still want things to be done fast? An old chinese saying "Ai Pi, Ai Qi, Ai Tua Liap Ni and Kia Cu Bi", translated as "Want it cheap, want it fresh, want it big (boobs) and want it to stay next door". I think the empire should seriously consider the fact that sometimes we got to do half hearted inspection or servicing just to meet the target. Please give us the time we need to do a job with completeness. Not that the given 8-5 working hours is not enough to carry out servicing, its that we guys are not dedicated aircraft technician at all, we still got to juggle with secondary appointments like tools, ground equipment, infrastructure, buying office stationary, infrastructure, POLs .... etc etc. Its call job juggling.

Its like the whole base depend on us to ensure it runs well beside making sure the aircraft fly safe and meet the operation requirement. Sometimes we got aircraft servicing deadlines to meet but also important secondary appointment to be carried out. Sometimes its squeezing our balls. Most of the time, I think it will be better off if we got dedicated logistic team in our base handling all this non-aircraft related logistic work.

Dedication brings quality. At less a dedicated team can meet all our secondary appointments' requirement (which will become their primary appointments' requirement) and even improve it along the way through consistent monitoring of the "Health" status of different aspect of our Base logistics and rendering indirect support to our aircraft servicing.

With a dedicated logistic team, it free us, the grease monkey, to dedicate more time and effort to achieve quality job and I am sure we feel much less painful when the rush factor came in and also we do not need to fire fight when the annual audit comes due to tons of back log accumulated in the pass because of lack of time.

Work is suppose to be fun and not hell... that way when everyone enjoy work, they naturally will like to put in extra effort, in their own time, to improve the system, the culture or the welfare of each other.

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