Summary
Elon Musk called on retired air traffic controllers to return to work, citing a shortage amid heightened scrutiny of the FAA under Trump’s second term.
With DOT Secretary Sean Duffy’s support, Musk’s DOGE attempts to “upgrade” aviation systems despite recent FAA job cuts.
The AP reports fired employees included radar and navigational aid maintenance personnel, though Duffy insisted no “critical safety personnel” were terminated.
Musk’s appeal comes amid increased public concern over recent aviation incidents, though experts consider the uptick an anomaly.
Well if it isn’t the consequences of his own actions.
Fucked around ✅
Found out 👈
Not really, tbh. He’s pretty clearly just doing as much damage as he possibly can. This whole “Oooh whoopsie, we did a bad, does anyone want their job back?” shit is pure show to give himself some plausible deniability to keep the guillotines at bay.
If you look at what’s happening through the lens of his goal being malice, and ignore the “ooooops!” pony show, what you see is a man who’s hamstrung an entire nation with literally zero consequences.
US law mandates retirement at 56 for Air Traffic Controllers due to the high stress and fast-paced multi-tasking nature of the job
It’s considered one of the most mentally challenging jobs there are.
We should have this same law for politicians.
probably one of the reasons why its such a shortage, low-retirement age, maximum age for becoming one, among other requirements.
How about you just increase the pay and benefits you’re offering? if you love the efficiencies of the free market so much why don’t you fucking act like it
Surprise Surprise Surprise (Gomer Pyle voice)
Just what the fuck did you think was gonna happen Elonia? Fucking idiot…
Leopard, meet face…
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This is intentional. They want to replace everything with their own shitty for-profit systems.
Yeah I’m sure they’re just RARING to work for the most publicly toxic boss (that isn’t even a boss) in the world…
As a guy who has to travel for work. I hope that these guys tell him to pound fucking sand
Really highlights how stupid Republicans and Musk really is and how his companies thrived despite his leadership not because.
Fucking beg, fascist bitch.
Maybe fill in the blanks with racist assholes? I want to watch that work itself out.
Yo, air traffic controllers still at work: if y’all have ever considered going on strike, now’s the time.
Pay more wages, the way of a free market is supply and demand
Oh he needs those useless federal workers? Most of those people remember what reagan did and feel no loyalty at all to the republican party.
You underestimate conservatives
I’ve worked around some ATC people. They remember what the republicans did. All the new hires get indoctrinated with the sure knowledge that they are considered disposable by republicans and Washington in general. Musk is going to get people killed. We can only hope that that he rushes through the new air force one and it has a titanic sub type of malfunction.
Anecdotally, a significantly large - maybe even 20% - will still get behind anyone with an R after their name. I left the federal civil service after almost five years because I didn’t like the influence of politicians undermining things even then. That included the shutdowns while Obama and Trump admins were in office.
There are union-protected labor workers - even now - still think anyone Republican will protect them, because… “values.” Hell, Utah recently passed legislation making it illegal for any public workers to collectively bargain. How many teachers and firefighters there voted for that possibility in?
I would think in Utah plenty of teachers and firefighters voted R, but I would love to hear from someone who has better info than me. I worked with tons of union guys who were very proudly conservative and even hated the union they were in. The propaganda is strong in some…
The shortage is his own damn fault. I wouldn’t want to work any government job right now.
Time to renegotiate salary!
It’s weird to see people all over the place mocking Elmo for this…
Like, he knows no one in their right mind would want to start federal service right now. They treat feds like shit, make wild cuts they know will effect actual essentials. Go on national news and the billion dollar social media websites they own to shit talk fed, even have the head of the DoD call federal workers lazy and a drain on the nation in a public memo for for some reason now comes with a video.
The entire thing isn’t just designed to shrink the federal government, but to then replace it with contractors they “manage” and take a huge chunk of the wages from for the privilege of a job for less than feds got and zero worker protections.
Just lining their own pockets in a legal manner because “no one wants to be a fed”.
Meanwhile 50% of the country cheers him on, and damn near the rest can’t see more than two steps ahead.
Why the fuck haven’t people started learning to plan ahead yet?
Or at least read a damn history book. Fascist aren’t typically original.
But what happened to move fast and break things?
They’re broken. We’re onto step 2
- Move fast and break things
- ???
- Profit
Step 2 is “Steal everything not nailed down”.
10 years salary up front. In gold.
best we can do is crypto and a ket bender with trump’s dom
Sorry, Fort Knox is empty.
Nobody is gonna need to tap fort Knox, empty or not, to scrounge together 10 years salary worth of gold.
That would be under 10 bars of gold for some of the highest salaried doctors and lawyers out there.
It would be less than 1 bar of gold for anyone making less than $114K/yr over 10 years, as of right now.
This is all to remind anyone reading this that your life’s worth is like 1-20 gold bars.
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Gold you say?
The back side should be printed with the fucking Kremlin.
why is Krasnov Trump face on the US dollar bill.
That man should never be on the face of legitimate US currency.
