I'm never going on a plane ever again

[enema_cowboy@dotnet.social]

@thomasfuchs
Maybe these new hires can start their tower experience for private jets in Silicon Valley and Austin.

[piiiepsbrummm@chaos.social]

@thomasfuchs "Trained on X-Wings"?

[space_burger_steve@mstdn.ca]

@thomasfuchs I mean, I can kind of see the assumption that air traffic controllers use thought processes similar to real time strategy players, with the bonus of no game mechanics actively trying to thwart you. If it were just job counselling advice, or an ad campaign to attract recruits, that wouldn't be so bad.

But from what others are saying about the stress of the job and the lack of training facilities, this sounds unsurprisingly tone deaf.

You know what might take stress off ATCs? Reducing their work load with a high speed rail network from Alaska to Mexico, and California to New York. Not a quick solution, but the second best time is now and all that.

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs JFC

[anonymousless@kind.social]

@thomasfuchs some context from an ATC. Hiring 2000+ people per year is only a record because the previous hiring limit was 1200-1500 per year that barely or frequently did not keep up with attrition. After COVID shut down the training pipeline for a year and a half we’re now significantly behind on numbers. Regardless, those 2000+ will now winnow down over the course of training and we will probably end up with roughly 50% of those as fully certified ATCs… in about 3 years

[love@thistlenfern.org]

@thomasfuchs Same since about 2020 and this does nothing to change my mind.

[geowend@kosmos.social]

@thomasfuchs ....oh yes, just the thing I needed to see right when I was considering a flight to deal with some things in the States.

[knud@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs

Nothing bad will come of this! I'm 94% sure!

[perrin42@mastodon.social]

@thomasfuchs

And every one of them had sex with the pilots' mothers.

[estelle@mstdn.social]

@thomasfuchs great, now we can run the life-critical experiment where we take the "most stressful job in the world" and give it to people who aren't going to take it too seriously

(presumably because the ones we fired were being paid too much)