As a 30 year Regional Airline pilot (retired) I can say without any hesitation that women and people of color on average are the most skilled people in the cockpit. Marginal white guys slip through, which makes a terrible headache for Captains who are responsible to babysit them. The minorities have to struggle against discrimination and only make it by being the best. The female pilot accident record can be used to prove it.
"It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show."
--- D. H. Lawrence
I am now convinced beyond all doubt, that this is an as yet undisclosed Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing,""Newsroom") or Armando Iannucci ("Veep,""The Thick of It") project. No one else could come up with this cringe-making stuff all by themselves --- not even Demento the Clueless and his courtiers.
“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities (for careers in air traffic operations), empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.” If I recall, um...let's see...who was pretending to be president at that time?
From our president: "The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions..." We know he regularly engages in projection, but this time he really went above and beyond. I'm impressed.
His statement doesn’t make sense. It suggests that the policy of racial discrimination against people of color who want to be ATCs ends today, which of course is the opposite of what he means.
I just attended a multi-day conference during which I was the only one who wore a tie. I wear it as a protest of “post-pandemic sloppy” as the new standard in the office. This is an office I never left. This is an office where I was told to report to work “business as usual” for the duration of the pandemic as essential to keeping the government functioning. Refuse and you lose your livelihood.
One suggestion to mitigate risk was to cease wearing items that required dry cleaning as they could harbor viruses. This lead to the death of business casual. At the conference, even the presenters were wearing golf shirts, athletic shoes and similar attire.
The assumption that straight white Christian men are naturally superior in everything is barf-inducing
Barf-inducing is the perfect sentiment for it.
As a 30 year Regional Airline pilot (retired) I can say without any hesitation that women and people of color on average are the most skilled people in the cockpit. Marginal white guys slip through, which makes a terrible headache for Captains who are responsible to babysit them. The minorities have to struggle against discrimination and only make it by being the best. The female pilot accident record can be used to prove it.
"It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show."
--- D. H. Lawrence
I am now convinced beyond all doubt, that this is an as yet undisclosed Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing,""Newsroom") or Armando Iannucci ("Veep,""The Thick of It") project. No one else could come up with this cringe-making stuff all by themselves --- not even Demento the Clueless and his courtiers.
“FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,” the agency announced on April 11, 2019. The pilot program, the announcement said, would “identify specific opportunities for people with targeted disabilities (for careers in air traffic operations), empower them and facilitate their entry into a more diverse and inclusive workforce.” If I recall, um...let's see...who was pretending to be president at that time?
From our president: "The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions..." We know he regularly engages in projection, but this time he really went above and beyond. I'm impressed.
Severe intellectual disabilities: check
Psychiatric problems: check
Other mental and physical conditions: check
Donald Trump, YOU'RE HIRED!
... hundreds of people suing the government because they would like to be air traffic controllers ....
Name one. He has no moral fiber.
A tie that binds.
His statement doesn’t make sense. It suggests that the policy of racial discrimination against people of color who want to be ATCs ends today, which of course is the opposite of what he means.
I just attended a multi-day conference during which I was the only one who wore a tie. I wear it as a protest of “post-pandemic sloppy” as the new standard in the office. This is an office I never left. This is an office where I was told to report to work “business as usual” for the duration of the pandemic as essential to keeping the government functioning. Refuse and you lose your livelihood.
One suggestion to mitigate risk was to cease wearing items that required dry cleaning as they could harbor viruses. This lead to the death of business casual. At the conference, even the presenters were wearing golf shirts, athletic shoes and similar attire.