Well  

Has given me High praise.

Even the one who came over from another base (CK) who never met me and initially said he'd trade me for a Chris Hebert in a heart beat.....eventually changed his tune when year over year I continued to prove my worth by fixing and troubleshooting $#!+ no one else could figure out.  Not knocking Chris, he's awesome....taught me lots.

It's always the same tho.  First, They doubt me, then they praise me.  Mostly for the ideas I come out of the box with to try they never thought of.

Once upon a time I was being punished for not agreeing to take a position in the field they needed filled.  I was comfortable doing my thing, getting $#!+done on nights in the hangar at the big P in Laffy.  I was basically my own boss. Nightshift hours, no bosses around hovering,  Doing completions in heavyship and going across the way to help the heliport with anything they needed troubleshooting.  It was a match made in heaven....,  A dream job really.

But they wanted me in Houma, on the new BP Houma contract and all them new 92's.  I was too comfortable where I was.....so they made it UNCOMFORTABLE for me.

Stripped me from my position as the permanent Heavyship nights avionics tech, doing completions and troubleshooting , to DAYSHIFT, lightship, wire monkey.  That's how they getcha.  They knew I hated days.

I played along.....for a year.

Then one day a 76 with a generator problem comes in from the field.....burning up DC controllers. 

You know it's bad if they can't get it fixed out there and have to fly it up to Laffy.  They hate taking it off contract.

Anyway,

 I watched them boys struggle for 3 days and get no where troubleshooting that bird.  Finally Heavyship avionics supervisor (LA)comes over, asks me to stay late.....break day mind you.....to help troubleshoot.....they really need to get this pig fixed and out the door cuz they breathing down his neck.  Now he was instructed to shun me, have me in the punished corner working on simple simon bullcrap and not allow me to work on heavies anymore for my penance, but he decided to break that executive order and come get me....he was desperate.  I agreed and we had that aircraft fixed in 3 hours.  Say wut, if you doubt this one bit I WILL COME FIND YOU AND SHOVE A TORQUE WRENCH IN YOUR A-SS.  Yes, three hours mf-ukers, we , WE, had it fixed.  Not I. Because I had help as I was crammed in a tight a-ssed compartment with my head in a DC Junction box and I'm barking orders to the man with the print on the table of "OK what to look at next.!"  That's how you fix $#!+ one guy has to get dirty a-ss deep in a relay panel and another guy has to be on a table looking at the print.  It's The only way.

SO, we got her back online up and running on the gen test bay.  Come to find out they had a wire on a relay they had changed some weeks back,  that was just one spot off from where that wire was supposed to go, 21 should have been on 22 or something to that effect.  Attention to detail...just happened to notice it......that's what the AF trained ..attention to detail.  And that's the reason they call me the MF Guru.....because I inspect everything and count wires and verify wire numbers are where they are supposed to go like a meticulous freak with OCD.  Why are there 3 wires on this post? there's only, spoossed to be 2....and $#!+ like that.

So yeah, Merit.  Let's talk about that pay raise....