The airline industry

I'm currently at jfk airport, terminal 5, since this is the only one with free wifi unbelievably... you'd think such a useful thing would be at all terminals, but it's only jetblue that's cool enough to give free internet to its customers. would love to work for them in any area, but i'm stuck at swissport for now. sucks ass.

so where was I... there's a few things I'd like to tell you wonderful passengers what it is I do and what it is I know about airlines. It's definitely not as pretty as it seems from the outside. We baggage handlers don't give a shit about your luggage. So buy bags that won't break easily or we'll crush them. we treat them like garbage because the plane has to MOVE on time, so if we have to toss it, we toss it. like a piece of trash fragile or not.

I see tooooooo many flimsy as fuck bags when i'm out there hauling them, that's no good. the best ones are ironically not small duffle bags. If you want your bag faster than the other passengers, pack a big flat suitcase. We LOVE those. Fits on the belt, easily slides into the aircraft and we can pack it easily. We pack all of those first and remove all of those first, so there you go, little secret on how to get your bag faster. Make sure its tough as fuck though or we'll fuck it up.

like I said before, the plane HAS TO move. One of the reasons we don't give a flying fuck about your bag's welfare. That plane you're getting on, the one that seems so clean and untouched in the last few hours, a bunch of people were just on it probably 30 minutes ago. I didn't think planes turned around so damn fast, but yep, mother fuckers are turned around almost as fast as a train in the subway. I do air jamaica every morning. They bring teh plane in, passengers depart, we remove their bags, then the next group of passengers' bags are put right on the plane mere minutes after the last group's. unbelievable. they run these things like well, machines... no rest for anybody really, amazing. And we don't do much safety shit. times happen when the pilot overshoots the stopping mark, which is a huge no no. ground crew are just dudes like me, pilots make little mistakes, take too long to turn off warning beacons, and then there's just the fact that money is more important than anything else...

Not much interaction between us baggage guys and the pilots btw. They inspected the cargo bay once when i was in there chillin. and thats what we do, we just sit there under the plane while passengers board and disembark. we do more work than anyone else who works the ramp area yet we get paid the least, such bullshit. I could fly these planes after being here for so long... maybe some day, it's not that hard and from what i understand of the business, once the bitch is in the air, the pilot does nothing but play psp or watch a movie the whole time... lucky fuck