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Originally Posted by Fox Xray  A lot of people are turning the job down, at least where I work. Not only have people turned it down but we have lost an unusually high amount of new hires to resignations. |
Yup. . .was a pretty easy "Thanks, but no thanks." on my end.
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Originally Posted by Polarbear You do realize a good portion of the seasoned controllers came up through the OTS ranks right?
When I have visited facilities so far, The vast majority of controllers there were like: "Awesome, a guy getting the job the way we used to get jobs here. You do know that is how most of us got hired in the first place right?" |
And you do realize that the CTI program was not around immediately after the PATCO strike right?
When the FAA has pumped it's own budgetary funds into a program (CTI - College training initiative) to develop future Air Traffic Controllers, and tell these same future controllers that you'll be making >100K for over 30 years as a controller, THEN - imposes a contract onto the profession you (generic - FAA) should have no one to blame about not having enough staff but yourself (generic - FAA).
The FAA's problem was being a horrible negotiator. Off the street hires in this day in age is a different ball game then what it was post-PATCO strike. This is the Me-generation.