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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

Posted on March 29th, 2008 at 17:59

I think that’s a nice gesture!

Todd Tkach

Posted on March 30th, 2008 at 9:36

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.