Working with the airline was fun, although the pay was small. While I was a student at the UWI, I used to work at Air Jamaica during my holiday breaks. One day I had to take a young wheelchair passenger to the aircraft. I had a pleasant conversation with her, and I was convinced that she would walk again. She did walk again, and we have been in touch for over forty years now. I later discovered that she went to school with my ex-wife.
Another day, while working in the customs hall, I saw a man who was very annoyed because his bags were delayed. I offered him some water, but he was too annoyed for that. His wife encouraged him to have the water. I told him that I was willing to do anything to make him happy. He gave me a number to call. I was to tell someone at his office to send a plane for him. I went to my office and told the supervisor about the man's strange request. The supervisor looked at me and smiled and said, "That is the president of Kaiser." On my birthday, I was summoned to the president's office. Walking to his office seemed like a walk forever. Why did the president want to see me? He only calls the pretty girls to his office. Oh yes, he loved the young girls. His ex-wife used to make the bouquets for his girlfriends.
I am normally an intrepid person, but being summoned by the president of Air Jamaica made me shake in my boots. He quickly informed me about the incident with the president of Kaiser, and he said I would be given a complimentary trip. In those days, as holiday workers, we would work one day less than the qualifying time for a trip.
I was now with the company as an accounts assistant, and my job was to reconcile the largest account, the Scotia account. I spent days trying to reconcile it, and I could not. The supervisor reprimanded me as a UWI graduate because I could not reconcile a simple bank account. I told him that something was wrong with the accounts for the previous year. He advised me that the accounts were audited and nothing was wrong with the accounts. Without the supervisor's authorization, I decided to reconcile the accounts for the whole of the previous year. It meant working late into the mornings and then taking a taxi home in the early morning to East Kingston at my own expense. Things were getting hot in East Kingston in the 1980s.
Eureka, there it was: cheques totalling over JAD300,000 were put through the system twice, and that is how they managed to balance the accounts for the previous year. I went to the supervisor and reported my findings. He said to me, "The man is a genius." My interesting flight had just begun.
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