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.
No no, just replace all air traffic controllers with AI without even testing it first. I really want the world to see how badly Musk is NOT a genius but an idiot who stumbled his way into a position that makes him ungodly amounts of undeserved money.
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.
It’s never a problem until it affects them
Good luck to you. I’m not setting foot on a plane until this administration is over with (assuming there is an end to it).
Yup. Don’t really have a choice of If I want to keep the family housed and fed but I do have a lot of life insurance.
Don’t worry, they won’t pay out.
That makes me feel better. I’m happy that my premiums are going to end up in the pockets of some CEO on a boat somewhere instead of to my family after I die. I’m sure the CEO needs the money more then my daughter. I mean, underage trafficked girls and coke doesn’t pay for itself.
As much as I loathe the twat, this issue predates him. Now, after what he’s done to the FAA, good luck convincing them to come back. A very stressful, understaffed job… Sure they’ll want to get out of retirement…
Exactly how he runs Tesla, too. Fire a bunch of people, just to rehire even more 2 to 3 weeks later.
I wouldn’t even think of flying down to the US for this very reason - I wouldn’t feel safe.
Dude, you’d end up in America, though. They’ve got some turmoil down there, and I know I’m gonna wait it out. Safe to fly there or not, I’m still not going.
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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.
Interesting.
The EU & UK would consider that age discrimination and illegal. You can’t be forced to retire at a given age.
Strange that America uses it - especially given the age you allow your presidents to be.
It would be in America as well, except ATC is classified as a secure role like the military or police so they get away with stuff like this.
Age discrimination is illegal in the US for almost every job, there are a handful of exceptions.
exceptions include the military for obvious reason(but even they have exceptions, rare though), and certain federal jobs, like ATC, and they have science to back up why you have to retire by 56.
I’ll just leave that scene from Breakind Bad here. If i was in the US i would not enter any flights for the foreseeable future, unless it is the flight to permanently leave.
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.
Fucking clown show
This is so easy to fix. Just ask the remaining ATCs to put in 30 more hours per week. If there is a safety law which needs to be amended to make this happen, just amend it. Remove all the rules and safeguards. We should do it like the Tesla factories.
Look. More air accidents will happen. People should be ready to sacrifice themselves. It’s that easy.
So easy to fix.
PS: /s for some of you who may need it…
Seriously you couldn’t pay me to fly these days.
We also need to brace ourselves for hardship. I mean Elon won’t be facing monetary hardships but you will. So brace for that.
How, exactly, are we to brace ourselves for any of this?
Put your head down between your legs, cover with hands, pray that you land successfully
Just don’t board a plane. Should be fine, they probably won’t crash into your house. Plus fewer people on planes reduces air travel which can only be a good thing.
Learn about growing, preparing, and preserving food. Learn how to repair things. Make connections with like-minded people in your IRL community.
Grow things? Are you suggesting we all go back to an agratiat culture where we all make our own food?
Because in that case be prepared to go back to the 1600’s and anarchy. There won’t be enough food for everyone and without artificial fertilizer and industrial farming, the world can sustain about 2 billion people tops. Good luck with that.
I could do with learning which seaweeds taste nice. All that grow here on the shoreline are safe to consume though some might be as useful as eating cardboard or taste disgusting. Beyond that, catching crabs is something I have managed a few times. Mussels I am not sure if they are safe as they are filter feeders and the water isn’t that clean here.
Elmo will be facing hardship before he dies.
All his companies rely either on bubbles (hello Tesla!) or pure government assistance (hello SpaceX!) and the guy is a few marbles short of a dozen. He is literally a scammer who got extremely lucky. He is also insufferable to literally everyone around him, even his own family. It won’t last.
Contract negotiation time!
RESIST!
its not possible since they are forced to retire by law at 56 anyways, and they already proven that with studies that past a certain age you cant maintain the same cognitive abilities like in your 20s-40s.
“upgrade”
Tesla Autopilot… for planes?
EVERYBODY RUN IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION!
I hadn’t flown since right before quarantine dropped in the US, and flew United once last year. I was already thinking I’d stick to driving
If you wanna stay here then yeah. Imagine giving up everything you’ve built up in this country to escape, doing that so your children can have better life, and the airplane crashes. They’re making us scared to live, scared to leave. Any action besides being in compliance.
10 years salary up front. In gold.
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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best we can do is crypto and a ket bender with trump’s dom
Gold you say?
In the economy to come, that currency can be burned for warmth or to insulate shacks. It has no value beyond that.
why is Krasnov Trump face on the US dollar bill.
The back side should be printed with the fucking Kremlin.
No need, there’s already a Gremlin on the front
That man should never be on the face of legitimate US currency.
Bloody hell!
