Technician reported extraordinary pressure from supervisors to rescind or sign off a discrepancy on a cargo door stop that had worn beyond limits as established by a previous MEL and ECRA.
Synopsis
Technician reported extraordinary pressure from supervisors to rescind or sign off a discrepancy on a cargo door stop that had worn beyond limits as established by a previous MEL and ECRA.
Narrative
The supervisor called the ready room at about XA:25 and wanted to discuss the previous issue regarding Aircraft X. He started to state that I can have a shop steward present. I told the supervisor that I can discuss this with the Chief Stewards present. Right now I am eating my lunch and then I will file a report and then I hung up the phone.Tonight; DATE; I wrote up log page X and reported this over the radio to the terminal lead. NAME1 stated nice try; that it was already written up. Sure enough; I had written this up back in month last year on log page Y. NAME2 had deferred it; but minimized the damage to the door stop. I call Terminal Lead NAME to have him look for an ECRA (Engineering Change Request Authorization) that was created for this kind of wear. Supervisor NAME3 called me and asked me to come and see him. I told him I was oiling Aircraft Y and then I had to oil Aircraft Z. So I let the supervisor know that I was working other items.He called me again 10 or 15 minutes later and I re-positioned to his office after oiling Aircraft Z. Manager NAME4 was there. NAME3 wanted me to sign off the item because I had already written that up in the past. I said the item was deferred for the paint; not the door stop. NAME3 was saying that I purposely wrote this up again; that I had written up other Aircraft for which an ECRA was issued. He mentioned that I had brought up Aircraft X during that time and I replied I did not recall that this was the Aircraft. So much time had passed. NAME3 was saying I do not get it; I am the only one that does not get it. Not sure what he was implying with that REMARK as I was reading the SRM (Structural Repair Manual). The SRM [procedure] had nothing to do with the door stop I told him. NAME3 was saying why did I write this up without looking first or calling. NAME3 was yelling at me throughout most of this encounter and NAME4 just signaled him with his hand to tone it down after a while.. I told NAME4 that he is just sitting here and allowing NAME3 to speak to me this way. NAME4 stated that he was listening to both of us. I was not yelling; but trying to defend myself against his attack; because that is what NAME3 was doing. NAME4 said we have 20 minutes before departure. I told NAME3 if that was the way he spoke to his kids; because I not his kid. I told NAME3 that he does not speak to anyone else that writes stuff up. NAME and said I do to get it. NAME3 kept saying that Maintenance approved the previous deferral and that this was not a safety of flight issue. As I was looking at the SRM; NAME3 said when this is over I am going to have to get a Shop Steward and that I need to call the Shop Steward. I told him that he wants a Shop Steward; then he should make the call. NAME4 reminded me that we do not have much time before departure. I said I would call Maintenance and speak to my Lead. Before I walked out the door; I told NAME3 that he wanted me to only write up one engine instead of 2 engines that were bad. I said that was a flight safety issue and that he was a hypocrite and walked out. This was referring to the day he wanted me to write up defects I found for one engine and not both engines on a B-767. I ended up writing both engines and grounding the plane.We should not have to get pressured into signing something off like that or spoken to like this for doing your job.
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Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.