Musks plan replace Federal Employees with AI technology except for his chosen team members, multiple contractors worth billions pocket the money.Congress controls the purse strings this responsibility transferred to fake DOGE next stop Fort Knox …. sound plausible to me ..
Musk doesn’t understand the definition of the word retired, nor does he know basic facts about air traffic controllers. In the U.S. air traffic controllers must retire at age 56, as mandated by the Federal FAA. This means that once they retire, they are legally prohibited from returning to work.
Yeah...of course, still being in the "probationary period" was for them a litmus test for whether someone was a "DEI Hire", so they ALL had to go without exception.
OK it’s not like this abysmal self-centered idiot would actually listen to anyone trying to explain this to him, but imagine being the poor bastard having to explain to this jackass how he is responsible for making this problem so much worse in every way?
My cousin worked for Biden's OPM. They worked for months on transition documents. Binders of information about how to run the most important HR department in the nation. It was all thrown in the trash by the Trump Administration.
I mean, who'd have thought, right? Hey, speaking of, didn't they just fire, ya know, a bunch of qualified ATCs? Seems like it was all part of some stupid EO. I can't quite place my finger on it...but maybe it involved three letters like, oh, D.E.I.?
😡 I know several people who were tier 2'd in their app to the FAA. These are people who are qualified ATCs who are actively controlling in non FAA towers. These people have been waiting more than a year to get re-evaluated. Maybe hire them. duh.
So, the whole "hack and slash" fire everybody in sight, especially "probationary" employees, because it looked good on an Excel spreadsheet didn't work out within - checks notes - weeks of it being done, and is putting key infrastructure and lives at risk.
No no, see, nobody has ever had thoughts on this and as Musk is learning how this all actually works, it’s the first time ANYONE has ever considered any of these issues.
Absolutely, if you’re a retired air traffic controller please come back to an agency that is reducing headcount for no reason where morale is rock bottom and there is no plan, wow I bet thousands will come running Elmo
Now now now, don't forget they better not be trans. Lord knows they might wip a dick out to navigate a plane to the right landing strip. A child on said plane might see and end up woke and gay.
That was the goal. Fire everyone, purge, clean sweep. And then hire loyalists to do their bidding. A govt run by yesmen who will break laws and all collude to hide their collective incompetence.
The most efficient way to make sure that the federal government is working well is to fire everybody, steal every American's personal information, run around with a chainsaw while high as a kite, and post 1,000 tweets an hour.
So it turns out AI can’t do that after all? Is moving and breaking things resulting in a lot of things being broken beyond repair? LMAO. Fuck these people and everyone who listens to them.
Once they finish stage 1 of ripping out the guts of the government system (i.e. the people and software), they're going to find the whole thing blowing up horribly.
I’m pissed that my cynical worldview is coming to fruition.
I’m also pissed that “there’s a sucker born ever minute”.
I’m pissed I’m losing my fight.
The futility of it all knowing a large chunk of the masses couldn’t/didn’t accept the inevitable end.
We are what remains people. Fight like hell
What is not spelled out in that message but certainly a prerequisite is that you must be a straight white male. Positive there are "top notch" "DEI" air traffic controllers, but they don't want them.
Musk is a colossal douche and ignoramus. Blundering through government discovering things that need genuine fixing and not in his clownish way of “well CEOs fix things by firing everyone and not paying rent so…”
Like they could’ve learned this before they went and made a bunch of dumbass budget cuts. He probably thinks he’s a genius because he has come to this realization. It’s like that episode of The Simpsons where Marge discovers the Internet.
They age you out of air traffic control in Australia as well, due to slower reflexes. My brother in law does training now rather than actual control and he’s only in his 40’s.
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this doesn't help the FAA get better people.
Air Traffic Controllers are forced to retire by age 56.
https://thehill.com/regulation/transportation/5133499-duffy-air-traffic-controllers-shortage/
https://bsky.app/profile/internethippo.bsky.social/post/3lj47tuixk225
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The most efficient way to make sure that the federal government is working well is to fire everybody, steal every American's personal information, run around with a chainsaw while high as a kite, and post 1,000 tweets an hour.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hud-systems-access-ai-proptech-real-estate-mobile-home/
Have to start training before 31, and retire at 56.
This is due to the potential of mental decline in a job that requires a lot of mental capacity.
There isn’t a “come out of retirement”.
Sarcasm.
I’m also pissed that “there’s a sucker born ever minute”.
I’m pissed I’m losing my fight.
The futility of it all knowing a large chunk of the masses couldn’t/didn’t accept the inevitable end.
We are what remains people. Fight like hell
[standing among carnage and burning fuselage] "Oh, is that why we have ATCs?
Sure.
Like the team that's currently ransacking the government.