I forgot to post last night!! AAAAHHHHH
Oh my goodness! I can't believe it happened so soon. I could sit here and beat myself up about it and blame anything from sleep to wine but what will that solve? What would my post have looked like yesterday anyway?
Well, yesterday was an interesting day. I spent time with my point the way team again. It was nice to see them after so long. Not necessarily nice to get PTW started again. What is PTW? Well, back in July I was asked to participate in a focus group that would come together and discuss ways in which we can be more successful as a flight attendants group. Our guest service ratings went from being best in class to worse in class. If we don't improve our ratings, we will be in jeopardy of losing our contract with the airline we do business for, Big Mama. That means that everyone at my company will be out of a job. No pressure, right?
I initially was not interested in being apart of anything here at this company because well, my company has screwed me and my co-workers over too many times. However, my supervisor of inflight asked me to be apart of it and hounded me until I did. So, myself and a group of about 12 flight attendants, were there and we discussed the things we thought would help improve our performance. We were all asked who would be interested in developing and teaching a course on the issues we discussed. Although everyone volunteered, they were only interested in the Fish and myself. I guess they knew we were the only two fools to sign up for such a thing.
So Fish invited me to live with her family in Fredonia, Wisconsin in order to develop this course. This made sense because we are commuters and doing this from two separate places would be too difficult and staying in MSP would be too expensive. After many long days and nights of development and improper pay, we developed an 8 hour training day for the flight attendants which was never good enough for us. To this day we question whether or not we are being effective. This program has drained us mentally, physically, financially, and emotionally. And although the Fish and I are spiritual beings, on some days even our spiritual knowledge seemed not to get us through the day. I should say though on our feedback forms no ever said the day outright sucked. In fact, on a scale of 1-5, we average a 4 for the entire program.
I am such a worrywart and PTW has stressed me out so much. I have so much going on in my life right and PTW seems to be all consuming over that. I know it's a good thing. I have learned soooo much from being apart of this program. My soul grows everyday. I gain so much knowledge about life, people, communication, and love. I suppose my life here at my airline, which I will call the regional beast (RB), was getting pretty stagnant. I needed something not only to shake me up but my co-workers as well. I just feel like I didn't shake them hard enough. And although I could never had done this without my Fish, I am sure if I were given total creative reign over this project it would have been a lot different.
There are others involved. Moonlight was our project coordinator and well, she is a special one. She is a bit too emotional for me but she has taught me much as well. Boots was apart of the focus group and now she is facilitating which is great! Boots is a strong army woman yet sometimes she fails to use that strength where it really matters. I hope she dumps that douche bag of hers soon. Another member of the PTW team is my dear Drake. I couldn't think of a more fitting name for him. Without Drake PTW would have lost what little pizzazz it possessed. It lacked a lot of fun and humor. He really came in and livened things up. In the beginning I thought we could do without him. He is not built for this and he is not qualified. Boy was I wrong. I needed him there. As much as I love my Fish, I needed some fire, rebellion, fun, humor, dirtiness, and homosexuality. My Fish is a devout Lutheran. A very open and tolerant on the surface Christian but I know she secretly judges on the inside. Chica thinks she is gay, not sure about that but she is denying some part of her that she needs to let out.
Anywho, that is the PTW crew pretty much. We have had some drama along the way and it is very discouraging. This company is discouraging. Every day they make dumb decisions. They need to be nice to their employees. I mean, they do some nice shit but I just don't get their disregard for humanity. I mean, we are human first and then an airline second. I believe if any company puts humanity first, it will be successful. I could go on forever about PTW and my company but thus I feel this blog entry has run too long.
I am sure I will find many opportunities to discuss PTW in the future. I suppose this is what I would have written about yesterday. So far so good!
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