Well if it isn't the consequences of his own actions.

"There is a shortage"

ah damn i love that language. reminds me of the boss that abused my mother back when she was still in employment. "there is a shortage, you need to come over on your day off, otherwise we can't handle the workload". how about employing more people? no? maybe because you can't find another fool who will do the work with these bad working conditions?

1. Claim a federal agency is inefficient
2. Fire employees and defund agency
3. Agency performs worse than before
4. Point finger at the agency showing how it is incompetent
5. Move to privatize agency
6. $$$$$$$

US law mandates retirement at 56 for Air Traffic Controllers due to the high stress and fast-paced multi-tasking nature of the job

It's considered one of the most mentally challenging jobs there are.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/8335

How about you just increase the pay and benefits you’re offering? if you love the efficiencies of the free market so much why don’t you fucking act like it

This is so easy to fix. Just ask the remaining ATCs to put in 30 more hours per week. If there is a safety law which needs to be amended to make this happen, just amend it. Remove all the rules and safeguards. We should do it like the Tesla factories.

Look. More air accidents will happen. People should be ready to sacrifice themselves. It's that easy.

So easy to fix.

PS: /s for some of you who may need it..

Fucking beg, fascist bitch.

Surprise Surprise Surprise (Gomer Pyle voice)

Just what the fuck did you think was gonna happen Elonia? Fucking idiot...

Leopard, meet face...

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"No OnE wAnTs To WoRk AnYmOrE" - guy firing a bunch of people without cause.

Yo, air traffic controllers still at work: if y'all have ever considered going on strike, now's the time.

I used to work for Amazon in a division I didn't feel grimey for. Spent over 7 years of my life in that division, doing great things and recurringly got top performer review status and was even awarded role model on top of that on several occasions.

Then they laid me off in 2023, after my latest review of "top performer" & award of "role model".

About 2 weeks ago a recruiter reached out to me for a role in AWS and I responded with, "Amazon shouldn't have laid me, a top performer and role model, off if they'd like me to work for them."

ATCs should give this response to Musk.

Yeah I'm sure they're just RARING to work for the most publicly toxic boss (that isn't even a boss) in the world...

As a guy who has to travel for work. I hope that these guys tell him to pound fucking sand

Really highlights how stupid Republicans and Musk really is and how his companies thrived despite his leadership not because.

I was told there was no such thing as a shortage in a free market, why won't the executive branch embrace free market economics?

Pay more wages, the way of a free market is supply and demand

Time to renegotiate salary!

Oh he needs those useless federal workers? Most of those people remember what reagan did and feel no loyalty at all to the republican party.

The shortage is his own damn fault. I wouldn’t want to work any government job right now.

Fucking clown show

It's weird to see people all over the place mocking Elmo for this...

Like, he knows no one in their right mind would want to start federal service right now. They treat feds like shit, make wild cuts they know will effect actual essentials. Go on national news and the billion dollar social media websites they own to shit talk fed, even have the head of the DoD call federal workers lazy and a drain on the nation in a public memo for for some reason now comes with a video.

The entire thing isn't just designed to shrink the federal government, but to then replace it with contractors they "manage" and take a huge chunk of the wages from for the privilege of a job for less than feds got and zero worker protections.

Just lining their own pockets in a legal manner because "no one wants to be a fed".

Meanwhile 50% of the country cheers him on, and damn near the rest can't see more than two steps ahead.

Why the fuck haven't people started learning to plan ahead yet?

Or at least read a damn history book. Fascist aren't typically original.

But what happened to move fast and break things?

"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.

10 years salary up front. In gold.

"I clear cut the forest and now there is a shortage of trees. Woe is me."

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.

Would love to see the rest of them strike and bring the entire air travel/transport network to its knees.

What I wouldn't give to be able to say "Fuck You" to his face.

He is easily the worst person there is to ask for it.