Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Take Your Kid To Work Day, Air Traffic Control Edition!

You are a commercial airline pilot. Your job is a mind-numbing routine. You are half asleep making routine calls to the Air Traffic Control towers along the way to your destination. Then you hear one ATC voice that sounds like a little kid in your headphones. You snap wide-awake-but-right-now and pay attention to whatever is happening around you. Then you smile and laugh because the kid is obviously somebody in the tower's version of bring your kid to work day.

The call was 100% appropriate language, with good pronunciation. Radio communications protocols were observed because the child was repeating verbatim what the father said to say. The pilots apparently all got a big kick out of it.

The union realizes that the child is not a union member, however, and the controller/father and his supervisor are both suspended. We just can't have non-union labor in a union shop! Next they'll be talking about cutting wages! JERK THAT UNION BOSS KNEE!

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