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What a joke…
Don't worry, Real World Boston cast member Sean Duffy is on the case.
"Look, it's nobody's fault, and we don't know how this happened, but for unforeseeable reasons we have a shortage."
Narrator: It was forseen, they do know how it happened, and it was his fault.
Most of them retire at or near the age they're legally required to retire, they cannot come back. He's either trying to ask for the people he fired to come back without looking like the moron most people see him for or too dumb to realize even that.
[Insert GFY meme]
Would love to see the rest of them strike and bring the entire air travel/transport network to its knees.
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Amusing that his Twitter avatar looks like a black hole, considering that's where his abject incompetence is sucking the national infrastructure (and all of us) into.
On this latest debacle: Great idea Musk! Fire a bunch of people from an already stressed-out agency, then watch as a string of accidents happen, and then publication beg for retired controllers to come back.
Pushing tin is an incredibly stressful and intense job. Those who retired are probably a) no longer capable of dealing with that stress, and/or b) don't want to deal with it and deserve a well-earned retirement.
But hey, maybe with all the bullshit stripping away of social security, Medicare, etc etc, they will be forced to come out of retirement to help. I'm sure that's not a recipe for disaster!
For fuck's sake, we live in the stupidest timeline, I swear. And we can't even fully enjoy Musk ruining his ill-deserved legacy and humiliating himself, because all of us are the collateral damage.
wierd he dint want the ones he fired to come back, but retired? retired people are ineligble to be rehired at atc, solely because studies have shown they are mentally ill-equipped for a job after 56.
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Ah the move fast and break things doesn't work? I'm shocked, shocked!
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.
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