Well this gives us normies a day to play air traffic controller in a relatively stress free environment (not many flights flying rn)
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I'm sorry pilot, do you speak white? You don't sound white to me. Abort landing and go back to your woke ass shithole country!
I'm from Texas and was born in America! This is a domestic flight.
There's that woke birthright citizenship crap again! GTFO out of my airspace!
Reagan all over again
Lmao best use of this emoji
I will be recommending a BONUS of $10,000 per person for distinguished service to our Country
Not actually giving a bonus, recommending a bonus.
“fuck it im feeling nice. i will STRONGLY recommend the bonus”
I'm sure replacing trained professionals in an already ~~underpaid~~ ~1~ and notoriously stressful job with whoever will work for free won't cause any issues. Especially when those people will be responsible for navigating aircraft safely in ever more congested airspace.
I had lurked the air traffic control subreddit back in the day and the situation was bleak. They have a fairly toothless union that keeps things from being as bad as they could be, but it was still hell. Underpaid hell for extremely skilled and critical labor. I'm amazed there haven't been more mid air collisions and other atc involved mishaps just from overworking and burnout.
Note 1: I thought they were underpaid based on information I remembered but this appears to have been inaccurate.
The reason their union is toothless is they tried striking under Reagan and he fired them all (which directly feeds into why we're now in the situation we're in)
Bless our infinite emoji combos
The ATC training program has also been shut down. So these new hires would just have to read the manual and YOLO it without any training
Christ.
That's wild that something like that, controlling massive multi-million dollar highly explosive objects isn't a high paying job.
Speaking of which, teachers should be paid a lot more.
Absolutely.
They're in control of the people who will be in control of highly explosive multi-million dollar flying objects
The stress alone needs more compensation. Imagine making a mistake that causes a crash?
It's somewhat high paying. The median salary is $70/hr or $150M/yr
Goes to show how fucked everything is where a $70/hr job still can't afford the cost of living?
We need to shut down the bay area until we figure out what's going on
makes you wonder what life is if you need to make 4x what you are to have one
They can definitely afford cost of living, maybe it was inexperienced controllers who were complaining about their salary that I remember. But from the statistics I'm seeing even the entry level controllers make okay money these days.
Odd I remember seeing posts from controller making much less but you're right. Google says new inexperienced controllers make like $46k but I can't find data to back that up.
It's a pretty complicated scale with a lot of bonuses. An average controller probably makes ~40% of their income from overtime and bonuses, so that 46k is probably base income. The role and location also matters a lot. KLGA or KATL tower is going to make a lot more than KGCC ramp.
Don't they also have an earlier mandatory retirement age than most other jobs?
Yes, 56 unless you are an exceptionally talented controller, in which case you can work till 61. You also need 20/20 (correctable) vision, can't wear reading glasses, and can't have had a psychiatric condition at any point in your life.
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with whoever will work for free
ICE is too busy deporting all the people that were willing to nearly work for free. Good luck finding any willing "patriots" at the Home Depot for the next few years lmao
If labor supply does not keep up with demand, it is underpaid
Patriots are in ~airtraffic~ control.
i hate rich white people
i have nothing else to add.
"I've flown thousands of times and I've never seen one, so they can't be all that important!"
true patriots are in control!!!! (they're crashing planes)
Crashing planes into a mountainside: American tradition, as well as in other countries
Acting like you're going to crash a plane into another: extremely American
Accidentally crashing planes into each other: quite American
Crashing planes into your own aircraft carrier: American
Planes crashing into your aircraft carrier or battleship: American
Planes crashing into your large buildings: American
Crashing planes deep in the woods: okay that's Canadian-coded
Crashing planes very gently into a river: American, sullen burger best burger
Crashing planes suddenly into the ocean: Asian
Crashing planes with multiple power brokers on them: Russian
Going to apply and get hired despite listing my only qualifications as “drinks on the job” and “has trouble with authority”
I will then both cause and sleep through the largest concentration of 9/11’s since 9/11 Two.
One thing this shutdown showed is that noone has more power in this country than ATCs, definitely not this capitalist patsy
first as tragedy, then as farts
who's got the "listen up liberal" (plane crash) meme
If I were ready to get back to my fed job and saw this message, I'd quit on the spot out of spite.
lmao
I hope these statements showing he can find money for things are argued and win the case for SNAP. Not that I expect it, but I hope it.
Gonna apply for ATC and go "I thought it meant Ain't Taking Charge?"
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