Monday, March 27, 2006

Parking

This has caused a HUGE fight in our station. Not over agent parking spaces, but over where to park a piece of equipment. (A difference of about 5 feet... see picture below).

The de-icer is huge, it is not a truck but has to be hooked up to a tug in order to move it. It is extremely hard to back it into a parking space and only a few agents can do it.

I wanted to park it sideways from the beginning... but a few others made a big deal about how sloppy that looked...so I said fine and just left the thing out when I used it and they could back it up.
That worked for a while, but some mornings when you are just not sure if you will have to de-ice or not, you have to turn it on anyway to warm it up. It was parked in front of another airlines office and they complained that the fumes were going into there office.

Now we would have to hook it up to a tug, pull it forward just to warm it up.... and we may not even have to de-ice that morning..... so we would have to hook the tug back up to and and back it up and park it. (A lot of work for nothing).

I brought it up again that we should move it. This is the comment I got....( from the clean freak), "No, we are not changing anything!"

Most of the agents agreed with me but were afraid to piss of the clean freak.

I explained this to the manager... and I moved the de-icer.

You would have thought that I had trashed the entire airport.

"Why are people moving things around!" "That looks so sloppy!" "Now they won't be able to park the lav cart!" (not true). "Some people always want to have their own way!" (true, but I was right.)
People then started taking sides.... it was ugly for a few days...., but the manager agreed with me.
They did get over it... (they always do).

and yes it was nice getting something done my way. :)

Parking the De-icer

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