First Experienced the standing on the toilet thing when in Afghanistan, just unbelieveble. Growing up in Houston and having worked in many industries, most recently at an FAA Part 135 maintence facility working on Boeing 757's converting them from passenger liners to Freight liners (basically we would cut a big hole in the side and install the cargo door) anyway the team I was on was made up mostly of spanish speaking immigrants, one guy was from Cuba, one from Peru, Chile & Mexico, one other retired navy guy like me and two guys from Alabama. We were one of the most working-est crews in that hangar, other teams would burn off all the hours allotted for a particular task. Then when the jobs were turned in and re-disributed out the next week, we'd end up with jobs cards that had maybe have an hour left on them, but we'd wrap it up and our lead would figure out how to allocated the time. Sounds like I'm tooting my own horn here, but many of the "American" guys constantly talked shite about how employees should be able to read write and speak english in order to get the job. Usually those guys were the ones burning up the alloted time and not getting the task done. That hangar was hot as all get out because it was in Mobile, Alabama (talking summer time---I'd go thru 4 shirts in a day sweating like crazy). Also experienced the same kind of thing on a contract in San Antonio, Texas. Local guys complaining about their spanish speaking counterparts.
