Not to disagree with any of you....I fueled @ MSN for a year and witnessed my share of bad experiences with the ground crews. All I wanted to do was get gas on the darn planes and you'd think that some of these ground crews would get it figured out that when the fuel load comes across the wires....that maybe they'd want to inform the fueler what the load actually was. You could radio it over, call it in to our dispatch fueler, write it on the white board, or tell me what the load is when you see me hook up the single point. You'd think that after 12 months of working alongside these people that some sort of working routine/relationship would develop.....wrong.

I don't know why any of you are suprised by this. You pay these people $8.50/hour and you're going to attract $8.50/hr type of talent. My favorite situation was walking through the United backroom to capture a load on a plane sitting at the gate (not parked) only to find the entire ground crew eating lunch, while there was a line of unhappy riders out front giving the manager the 3rd degree. Meanwhile, in the Comair backroom everyone is playing Xbox while their plane is awaiting pushback.

Quiting that job was the best job I've ever quit.