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I tell my students to use the tactic I've used, without fail, for 40+ years, it goes like this-
'Thats done, sign it off' "Who said it's done?" 'The tie - in book says days sold off everything but the final buy-off' "I'm not signing it off until I personally look it over" 'Just sign it off, the friggin' plane has to go to the line' "You send me an E mail telling me to sign it off before I'll go near it (used to be write and sign a note and give it to me) that way, in court, you can't claim you were in the can when the paperwork got signed off and you don't know anything about it, and never told me to sign it off" 'Just sign it off willya?'-- at this point I get out my wallet and dig out my A&P license, hold it about 3 inches from the perpetrators nose and tell them "You like it, YOU sign it off, I'm NOT going to jail because you're in a hurry, any questions you want to ask me, you can meet me over by the phone, I'm calling the FAA and HR about this, you can go to prison, I'm not going to go to prison just to make your bean count look good"
And stick to your friggin' guns! Don't let some disinterested bean counter 'boss' bullyrag you into doing something wrong or illegal!
'You could lose your job if you don't' "Perhaps, but I seriously doubt a lawyer and HR would see it that way" (besides, you were looking for work when you found this, and there's always work to be found. Go learn to drive a city bus until things pick up)and if that's the way that employer operates, do you really want to keep that job? I've had friends who've worked for a certain freight dog, and I have been told by them 'if you see their junk coming, run to get out from under it, because something is going to fall off'. (and they are based well to the East of my locale)
Another caution I pass along to newbies is to always remember that 'Everybody you work with is a liar', don't ever be dumb enough to take someones word for something when it's literally lives and deaths until you can verify with your own two eyes it's done, and most importantly, done right' If you do the work exactly 'by the book' and something goes wrong and you can document you were working to the manuals, literally, your a$$ is covered, 'my leadman told me too..'won't hold up in court and you becaome a division of the Widow Jones, a woman in a Black dress and three crying children are tough to beat in court, and personally, I'd rather not share a very small single room with someone who's name is 'BUBBA' and is covered in gang tattoos.
You might think I'm being pretty cavalier about the employment action threat, but at least in the state of Washington, the labor laws state the employer either terminate with cause, or remain silent, implied threats of termination are a very serious violation of Washington's RCW codes (revised code of Washinton, our day to day laws here) with big fines and penalties to the employer up to and including locking the place up. plus. I've never really had a big problem finding work enough to pay the bills even in this type economy, what are they gonna do? take away your Birthday?
Besides, I have numbers that stick in my head concerning improper maintenance and/or bean counters- numbers like AA191, UAL 232, ASA 267, etc. etc, where 'we're in too much of a hurry, never mind the manual' lead to the inevitable, and they pop to the surface everytime I see poorly or improperly done maintenance, and I sort of wonder about those passengers final 95 seconds on earth-
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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-
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