Date: 201310
Local time of day: 1801-2400
Location: ZZZ.Airport, US
Light: Night
Aircraft: MD-83
Operator: Air Carrier
Operating under: Part 121
Flight phase: Parked
Aircraft component: Cowling/Nacelle Fasteners; Latches
Component problem: Malfunctioning
Reporter organization: Air Carrier
Reporter function: Technician
Reporter qualification: Maintenance Airframe; Maintenance Powerplant
Human factors: Communication Breakdown; Time Pressure
Anomaly: Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Detector: Person Maintenance
When detected: Routine Inspection
Result: General None Reported / Taken
Contributing factors: Aircraft; Chart Or Publication; Company Policy; Human Factors; Staffing
Primary problem: Human Factors

Narrative: This report is being filed with reference to a Cargo Loose Metal Task on an MD-83 aircraft on early evening. During accomplishing the task I noticed that there were numerous 'Smoking' and appearing to be Loose Rivets; on the Left and Right Hand Engine Exhaust Nozzles. I then proceeded to complete my Task at this time [but] I was scared and felt in Fear of losing employment; therefore I chose not to report or document this incident to Management personnel. First: I have previously written-up similar maintenance items in Aircraft Logbooks on several occasions only to be sternly counseled and threatened with further harm to my employment with my Air Carrier if I continue to report maintenance defects. [Numerous] Air Carrier supervisors and managers whom have acted in concert to willfully; knowingly; and intentionally; do harm to my employ and hinder my efforts to perform and properly document assigned maintenance actions. Air Carrier Supervisor X has even signed-off several discrepancies as being 'OK for Service'; or has fabricated false test indications to sign-off my maintenance findings. I had been recording the maintenance [that] I and others have performed to provide evidence of my concerns. However; many times aircraft damage and the like have gone unchecked and have been allowed. The actions of our Air Carrier Management personnel of constantly threatening and harassing me through counseling sessions and negative permanent personnel entries for performing my tasks as an Airframe (A) and Powerplant (P) Aircraft Maintenance Technician (AMT) has placed me in a hostile work environment. Whereby I fear for my employment if I take the proper steps to perform my assigned tasks in accordance with prescribed Aircraft Maintenance Manuals (AMM); Air Carrier Policies and Procedures; Air Carrier Human Factors training; Company 100% verbatim compliance training; Company Critical Behaviors policy; and the FARs. Therefore; I feel compelled to report future findings through this confidential forum with the hope of providing the FAA with insight into what Company ZZZ frontline Management personnel are doing; regardless of what other Company Management personnel are prescribing through formal training. In this current environment; I have Air Carrier Management personnel in [the] compliance and training [department] telling me what is expected of me as a licensed FAA A and P AMT at our Air Carrier and I have frontline supervisors and their superiors [subjecting] me to an extremely hostile work environment while in the performance of my assigned duties all the while following their compliance directives. This situation should not be allowed to continue. But my attempts to utilize internal remedies; such as: the Company internal confidential business ethics hotline; the grievance process within the Union/Company Bargaining Agreement; and filing of previous reports regarding my findings and company actions; have placed me in harms way regarding my employ. The aforementioned Air Carrier ZZZ personnel are actively engaged in thwarting my attempts to perform my tasks and they are placing the flying public in harms ways. Once again; I therefore feel compelled to report future findings through this confidential forum with the hope of providing the FAA with insight into what ZZZ frontline management personnel are doing regardless of what other Company Management personnel are prescribing through formal training. I have been given strict written directives to follow Air Carrier company policy which doesn't allow me to take pictures as proof to document my maintenance findings. [Limited] staff.




Synopsis: A Line Aircraft Maintenance Technician (AMT) reports he did not document or inform his Air Carrier Management personnel about loose 'smoking' rivets on the Left and Right Engine Exhaust Nozzles on their MD-83 aircraft; due to fear of losing employment.