PASS on Firing of Probationary Employees at FAA
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This is an understatement. Staffing issues have been a problem for a while. Six day workweeks for some. Baffling to make cuts to an already understaffed agency.
This is all being executed without thought. The agencies can coast for a while and political pressure can be applied to keep people quiet about problems (Speak up, get fired). Four years from now it becomes someone else’s problem.
Still, that's not much consolation to me. The system is stretched too far and I don't want to be wondering if there are still enough technicians working to have checked the landing lights for my next flight.
Understaffing maintenance crews for critical aviation systems? What could go wrong?
yet…
smells like waste to me! critical systems should be designed so as not to require maintenance!! (also, it's clear airport maintenance has been taken over by corrupt and fraudulent Marxists)
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They know what they're doing.
For what it's worth, people care and sympathize; we just don't know anything that we can do to help.
Update: Airway Transportation Systems Specialists, got the acronym wrong. They are technicians who maintain systems across the air traffic control system and airports.
Likely by then malicious loyalists will be installed and the billionaire class will have solidified oligarchy so there will be no possibility of consequence anyway.
Can I register doge_exec_official_genuine_super_real_orders@hotmail.com and start firing government staff too?
* https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control...
Yes, that is indeed totally strange
Training the entire government that it’s totally normal to receive official orders from external domains is nightmare fuel for anyone who has had to think about organizational security.
Good times.
Haven't you ever wondered why the Trump administration, once in office, never made any move to prosecute her?
No. He won and for him it was all that mattered.
And besides, politics is about winning through any speech and slogan necessary.
I think all politicians are crooked in one way or another and have a ton of skeletons in their closets.
If I received an email from such an address I would ignore it as a potential phishing attempt. I would think that would be standard practice at government agencies.
Every. Single. One. of these firings is a story involving human beings, with families, with ongoing concerns like mortgages, medical problems, deaths in the family, school problems, and all the other things that happen during life. Things many of the DOGE staffers are too young to have experienced yet.
Whatever else you might think about what is going on, the Administration could have done this humanely, carefully, methodically -- but they chose to do it carelessly and cruelly instead. In my opinion, this alone is unforgiveable.
Even those who do accept the “buyout” may be unpleasantly surprised in March with the looming government shutdown and corresponding lapse in appropriations.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-firing-probation-workforce-...
This is how the US works: at will employment: one day you have a job, the next you don’t.
If I sued everytime I got laid off and posted a bunch of wahmbulance crap on linkedin I would never get hired again.
Congress after Congress has borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund while lowering taxes.
And you want to place all the blame on "an insanely bloated bureaucracy" when there are fewer federal employees now than 40 years ago, despite the 35% increase in population?
the deficit doesn't stem from an increase in federal employment
About 1/3rd of Americans have an employment arrangement which requires just cause or other factor which makes it not at will employment.
That's why gov jobs offer greater job security, while paying less than in the private sector.
It should also be noted that this type of purge and re-purge of the civil service with the party faithful was the norm in the 1800s:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
Eventually folks figured out that this didn't make for effective government and reforms were passed to make so that some positions were treated as 'neutral' and the folks in them would generally follow the policy of new administrations (and give honest advice):
> Civil service reform in the United States was a major issue in the late 19th century at the national level, and in the early 20th century at the state level. Proponents denounced the distribution of government offices—the "spoils"—by the winners of elections to their supporters as corrupt and inefficient. They demanded nonpartisan scientific methods and credential be used to select civil servants. The five important civil service reforms were the two Tenure of Office Acts of 1820 and 1867, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, the Hatch Acts (1939 and 1940) and the CSRA of 1978.[1] In addition, the Civil Service Act of 1888 drastically expanded the civil service system.[2]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service_reform_in_the_Un...
Making more people 'unprotected' and basically 'at-will' was done recently:
This I think pervades the zeitgeist of the moment. Regardless of age, we have fabulously wealthy (mostly men) who have experienced little to no suffering in life. Now they come into power and bring that arrogant attitude you have before life shows you that it owes you nothing.
I used to think “why do I pay school taxes” when I bought my first house, before I had kids.
I used to think “why does anyone need help” before I lost my house to a forced short sale.
I used to think “who cares about healthcare” and then my wife almost died of sepsis contracted through surgery for breast cancer.
Too many people in charge have zero empathy because their lived experience is becoming fabulously wealthy and pretty much nothing else. No wonder we are living in a terrible timeline.
Money is basically coupons that let you tell someone else to do something instead of you doing it.
Is all suffering in life removable by telling other people to do things? I don’t think so. Certainly some things, but probably not even a majority, let alone all.
In fact I think a common pattern is where someone chases money for years, gets it, and then realizes it doesn’t actually solve most of their problems.
But I get the feeling that chaos is the point.
Shit, coulda just used a @gmail.com address at that point.