Technicians reported concerns and apprehension when called into a meeting with Upper Management after finding a significant amount of discrepancies on an aircraft recently returned from C Check.
Synopsis
Technicians reported concerns and apprehension when called into a meeting with Upper Management after finding a significant amount of discrepancies on an aircraft recently returned from C Check.
Narrative
Was assigned to work Aircraft X on Date. There were 46 discrepancies that eventually sent the aircraft out of service and sent to the hangar here in ZZZ. This same plane was scheduled for a C4 check on Date1 with zero discrepancies that I could find on the history. On Date2; Management arranged a meeting with my work partner Name to discuss what the cause of all the write ups were. During the meeting; with Union Representation present; Management suggested that they did not need to document anything they just wanted to know why we wrote up what we did and whether there was anything they could assist us with or anything that we needed from them to make our jobs easier. My work partner and I let them know that we had a plane that seemed neglected and we were just trying to fix it. After the meeting I felt a little confused as to why they decided to call us in. If anything I would think that they would want to call the C check mechanics who didn't find anything wrong with the plane. I don't know if Management is in the practice of having meetings with all Mechanics that have discrepancies and I have not heard of anyone else being called into question for doing their jobs. Which; in turn; seems to me like we are being singled out and this 'off the record' meeting could turn into being 'the tip of the ice berg'. I don't know if the meeting was an intimidation tactic to discourage us from creating non routine work and fixing discrepancies found on nightly checks.
Second reporter narrative
Name and I were pulled in to a meeting with Upper Management regarding the amount of write-ups on Aircraft X on the night of Date / morning of Date1. The meeting originally seemed to have the tone of 'Do you have everything you need to do your job?' But there were other statements made that made it seem they are watching us. They also asked if we were making these write-ups because of any conflict with another department. The write-ups were so numerous; because each panel has to be documented individually. After leaving the meeting and thinking more about what was said; I'm concerned that we might be getting singled out for doing our job. I haven't heard of any other Mechanics being pulled in by Management for documenting discrepancies. The culture here is to have airplanes done and paperwork turned in by the meeting; and if you don't; you get a target on your back.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.