29 March 2008

Free Swag

Posted by Rotorboy under: Work .

I had a notice to pickup a parcel from the local postal outlet. I had ordered a couple of items for my Palm Treo so I assumed that was what had arrived. I went down and picked up the parcel.

I looked at the package and noticed it was from Canadian Helicopters. “Hmmm,” I thought, “It almost feels like another book.”

Last year Canadian had sent every pilot a book on the pitfalls of flying helicopters. I thought it was a good idea. You know, learn from the mistakes of others. It was quite informative.

So I figured they had sent out another book.

I opened up the package in my truck and pulled out a shiny new 8 GB iPod Touch . How friggin’ cool is that?

Turns out Canadian had a banner year; record revenue and no accidents in 2007. That’s pretty darn good, considering the company flew some 86,000+ hours over the year.

So in appreciation they handed out a free iPod Touch to every employee.

Oh sure, I would have preferred a $1500 cash bonus or a two week all expenses paid vacation in the Caribbean, but hey, I pretty happy with my new toy.

8 Comments so far...

JeanMac

I think that’s a nice gesture!


Todd Tkach

Cool gift Roger, thats the kind of gestures that operators have to start doing showing their appreciation for safe work practices. I hope that SMS catches on and we can see a large reduction of incidents and accidents as a whole in the industry. We all pay when someone has a loss. There have been too many fatalities and there isn’t any replacement for that.
On that note everyone have a safe summer, do be rushed and have fun.


Rotorboy

Agreed Todd. Although it seemed like last year there were fewer accidents than previous years as a whole… but I could be wrong there.

I imagine you meant “don’t be rushed” as opposed to “do be rushed”? ;)


Todd Tkach

Yeah I bad, I’m the reason there is spell & gramar check.


Rotorboy

Don’t feel bad. Spell check is my friend too!


shnewt

I can’t wait to see how many helicopters go down this next year because everyone was listening to their iPods…

no, i’m not jealous…


Rotorboy

Wow dude… that’s just not cool.


shnewt

ya, i know… my bad.


 
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