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has some interesting tales about how they effectively just "reboot" the aircraft when it reports a fault
The other year we'd sat on the plane after getting on for a bit when the captain came on and said there was a fault and all the lights would be going out as they were just going to try switching it off and on again 🙂
[i]I'm not a salesman[/i]
Sorry, I just jumped to that conclusion. I reckon my point still stands ie is a load of salesmen going to a group meeting really that big a deal? We're not really talking about people who contribute a lot to society now, are we? Apologies to any salesmen reading this, but it's true, isn't it?
Oh and before anyone says it, personally I work in IT, and to be honest I don't feel I add much to society either. And I'd post exactly the same comments about a load of IT folk going to a conference. In fact, I reckon about 80% of business travel by plane is utterly unnecessary.
I have a passing understanding of management speak so this is what your boss is really saying:
"the Big Boss wants us all to go to this meeting, I think its a daft idea but as neither I nor any of the other managers at my grade have the guts to speak out, we are going to go through the motions of this ridiculous plan. Eventually the staff will kick up so much that somebody above me will make the decision not to go. But it won't be me that went against the Big Boss and stopped singing the company song, oh no matey".
So just play along, in fact act dead enthusiastic, you might even get his job eventually.
Not enough people can make it. It's cancelled.