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Old January 1st, 2008, 16:25   #15
av8sean
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Default Re: Ramp Service Positions

On some 4-hour shifts, I literally did no work, and sometimes there would only be one RJ flight on our bank. Technically we were supposed to go help in the bagroom, pickup FOD, etc, but everyone usually just chills in the breakroom or hides in the terminal/somewhere on the ramp. There are so many hiding spaces at the old terminal in Vegas. It's all about bidding certain shifts, basically shifts between banks, or mail shifts on days with no/little mail. Sometimes I would bring my laptop and use the free airport wifi, or maybe grab a newspaper laying around the terminal. On some long shifts I would actually leave the airport and go shopping or get lunch.

But for every easy day, there would always be a lot of hard days, like unloading a 757 in the middle of Vegas summer with an inop moving floor... was a good workout, that's for sure!
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