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From: jeb@mtx5c.UUCP (Jim Beckman)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re-hiring controllers
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Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 11:01:07 EST
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One of the common public reationsctions to the number of fatalities
experienced last year in airline travel is "Hire back some of
those controllers!"  It seems that the FAA training schools can't
supply new controllers fast enough to meet the demand.

This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.  Those controllercontrollers
who were fired have been off that job for at least four years now,
right?  If they've been slinging hash or pushing a hack or writing
programs for those years, you surely won't just put them back into
the Centers, right?  So they have to go through the same trainignng
schools, right?  And the capacity is still too low, so therehere we
aree again.

Anyway, those guys made their choice back when, and if they feel
like they got screwed, at least they know who did it.  If the job
was so terrible that they wanted to walk out back then, why
would they want to go back now?

Jim Beckman    AT&T-ISL, Middletown, NJ    mtx5e!jeb