Should someone tell him...

Don't do it people. Let them suffer with their mistakes.

What’s scary is the mandatory retirement age for air traffic controllers is 56 for a reason. This is a stressful, demanding role, and this isn’t Congress. We can’t let ATCs work until they’re in their 90s.

That’s what I said on the original post.. having a bunch of geriatric Boomers isn’t going to help us… look to Congress has it helped us there?

Exactly. There are strict age limits on training. This is not a "second career," as many have these days.

FUCK MUSK... LET HIM DO THE ENTIRE COUNTRY HIMSELF... IF HE CAN'T OR WON'T, THEN ALL AIRPORTS AND AIRLINES ACROSS AMERICA SHOULD JUST GROUND EVERYTHING TILL MUSK IS GONE ALONG WITH TRUMP...

MANDATORY RETIREMENT FOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS AT 54 FOR VERY GOOD REASON. STENCH OF DESPERATION AND IGNORANCE MUSK IS EMITTING IS WORSE THAN THE CONVICTED FELONS DIAPERS AND ALMOST AS ATTRACTIVE.

It's 56

YOU ARE CORRECT. I KNOW THAT. IT TRULY WAS ACTUALLY EITHER A BRAIN FART OR A TYPO. THAT IS MY STORY AND I AM STICKING WITH IT. lol SERIOUSLY, THANK YOU FOR CATCHING THAT.

Welcome.. I just remembered something wrong and had to add correction...

1000 likes!

No joke. That could actually work.

It was the Air Traffic Controllers, the airlines, pilots and flight attendants who finally got Trump & the repubs to come to the table seriously when they threatened to shut down air travel. That was what lit a fire under their asses.

We need to do this again! Airlines unite!

This was for that super long shutdown in late 2018 into early 2019. And frankly, the airlines may very well be the only thing that gets all this garbage to stop.

But only if you’re a white male. All “others” need not apply.

Truism

Yeah people are just clamoring to work for the government right now…

I already replied in another thread:

That's strange, there used to be plenty of them. Where could they have gone?

Yup. It started with Reagan. I remember this. www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1...

I don't remember that. But it doesn't surprise me, sadly

Actually there was a shortage before muskrat did cuts... Lordy!

Well, Old Musky certainly didn't help the situation!

💪😆

Most inept evil administration ever.

Has he read their job description? Mandatory retirement age is 56, due to the exceptional rigors of the job. www.fedsmith.com/2024/01/16/r...

After TFG fired a bunch of air traffic personnel, making near misses and accidents a daily routine. What an f--- up this POS is. Since Reagan, Republicans have robbed Air traffic control. By heroic efforts and long 6 day weeks, they kept us safe. But we hit the limit where things break now.

A true indication of a moron.

Yeah ... and elonia hitler .. when you were growing up and they were passing out brains, you thought they said TRAINS, and you missed yours

Stupidest billionaire, only second to the stupidest US prez in history, elected by the slimmest margin in US history, by the stupidest volume of voters.

Less pay, less job security, worse benefits than the private sector, and I can be fired on a whim without cause? Gee, sign me up!

"Come back to work! Psyche! Firing your ass again! Why u so stoopid for listening to a self absorbed narcissist?"

Makes plane sense!

So smart, yet such dumbfuckery.

Deport Elon!!!

They should hold out for a huge raise!

Does he engage his brain at all

The chainsaw is copied from Milei in Argentina who used a real chainsaw and has ripped Argentina apart.

Elon is cosplaying with the fucking Federal Government!! 🚨‼️

What a surprise...are they looking for a specific kind of atc?

It seems like only yesterday that we were allied with the world's democracies and opposed to totalitarian dictatorships like russia.

I did script this better: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won.

Unless you’re DEI and then forget it.

Given Musk's past arbitrary behavior, with what guarantees?

…but not if you are black, a woman, gay or trans, Asian, Mexican. Basically, only white men can come back to work.

Apparently only old white men.

Apparently, and overtly, old white Christian men

Pseudo/faux Christians

Old white pseudo Christian MENtally ill

And not if you transitioned from old white female to old white male.

Yes!!

Which is what? % wise. Love of God, get a win first.

This is what happens when you allow a entire group of hateful individuals to drag you into their bulls$hit with one electoral college vote we need one person one vote to avoid this shit show from ever happening again and felons should not be the head of anything but the yard!

How can someone be so stupid and be so public about it?

Elongated Muskrat is an idiot as usual. ATC folks have mandatory retirement for a reason. He won't be able to find any retired folks to come back.

In other words: Come break the law with me! www.fedsmith.com/2024/01/16/r...

Translating Elon's tweet from his native bullshit: "We done fucked up real bad, folks."

And then he laughs about it.. Ohhh, not to worry.. It's only nuclear weapons, food safety etc..

Apparently Ebola really scares him. I hope it's a more mundane E coli, Salmonella or just plain ol Staph he succumbs to quickly.

Ebola or that new disease in Africa that they don't know what it is... Having high death rate!

I really don't think he cares. He may ask for retired workers but if they applied they would get turned down.

I don't think even that aloof doofus would make the effort or risk public embarrassment if he didn't really need them.

I'm sure we need them.. Have needed them for years... But with high stress job.. Probably some have PTSD from the last 40 days...

He seems to be immune from embarrassment.

Only if they're not white men.

There wasn’t a shortage til he made one

Or worse.

😡😡😡

Those who have earned their retirement don't want to go back to work and certainly not for bafoonary

Right.. With inadequate staffing, no job security, lord knows what they fiddled with the computers, programs.. Probably pay docked toooo

FFS. Children are running our country.

And a druggie!

That's insulting to children.

Gee, I wonder why? 🙄😒

Please tell Elon to go suck a dick or something.

remember the old commercials this is your brain on drugs

What an idiot!

Oh wow. Even Elon is afraid to fly

Recruiting scapegoats for when air safety takes a vacation.

They should say sure: I'll return to work for 1. Twice the going salary and 2. A personal apology from Elon musk while he grovels at my feet and 3. A contract that says if you fire me before I'm 90 you must pay me out 4 million dollars (inflation adjusted) I think those are fair salary demands

The ones you fired were top notch you fuckstick. I hope they refuse to go back. This administration is like watching the 3 stooges. You want to laugh but then you remember how much it's gonna hurt us all.

Just like the nuclear scientists who maintain/oversee nuclear weapons. This Trump/Musk kleptocratic presidency is only softening us up for collapse. This is how world powers die.

Absolutely and very unfortunate.

Gotta do something to save ourselves now! Our house 🏡 is on fire 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥!

Why, it's almost as if Musk is a moron.

That is definition of throwing out the baby with a bath water! I know Elon is autistic, but he is also ADHD?

Plus ketamine, lsd, heroine, mushrooms 🍄.. What can go wrong?

Oh yeah, I forgot about the drug addictions. That may be self management of ADHD.

Hmmn... Then he's dumber than i thought... Just addict i think!

Wait, retired you say. Isn't that DEI

FFS!

Horror or Disaster movie?

Good thing they didn’t shut down the training facility. ….. oh wait. 🤦‍♂️

I hope every recently fired or retired FAA air traffic controller has gotten together to form something similar to what @mcuban.bsky.social suggested.

Refresh my mind, what did Mark suggest?

Thanks... Yeah... Good idea 💡! Mark has good posts!

Main qualification: total adoration to the Orange Fuhrer and his Ketamine Overlord. That is the mission. Fire career civil servants and officials and hire loyalists so corruption, the grift, the selling of our nation to highest bidder would be all done in darkness and with their complicit silence

Oh, hey, we just realized that our maga base is eternally stupid and can’t even understand how to navigate windows 10 upgrades. Maybe you old guys want to give up your pensions and work for lunatics.

From April 2024. "For more than a decade, NATCA has been sounding the alarm about the FAA’s staffing shortage and the fatigue and stress that places on the hardworking controllers we represent,” NATCA said in a Friday statement. "

I've always had a principle: I need to be able to respect my boss. I don't have to actually LIKE him/her, or even agree with him/her, but I need to have something I can respect. This guy has NOTHING. Zero respectibility.... and he never will.

maybe it was a typo. Must have meant "if you are retarded"

I'm glad someone else uses this word, appropriately. I have been reprimanded from a couple people for even uttering it

Oh, look! It’s the Find Out phase.

If I'm not mistaken, they fired 400 FAA workers, but no ATCs, who've been in short supply at least since Reagan fired 11,000 for striking. Bad move. Biden's admin met their goal to hire 1800 by last fall, but ATCs were still badly overworked. Gutting the rest of the FAA is not going to help safety.

Does he know they have to retire at 56?

Why would he care? They're abandoning all rules, decency, and common sense.

Based on his performance the last few weeks, its not clear he knows how to tie his own shoes.

Elon is a PAB.

Muskrat is shameless!!

Gee, how’d that happen? People need to wake up and realize that this entire Trumusk Administration fiasco is a planned take over of our government by a cabal of wealthy oligarchs and plain idiots who are worse than lemmings! Project 2025 being implemented as we sit here! It will get much worse!

Master of the Universe

I'll bet the Musk/Trump inner circle are all shorting airline industry stocks just waiting for the big payday.

He is such an asshole.

Sure Leon! For 2M a shift!!!

Yah, because nothing has changed in the system since you retired. 🙄

This isn't an accident. The gaming industry does this all the time. Force out the more experienced developers, programmers, and play testers that you would have to pay more for new and formerly retired folks you can pay a whole lot less.

WTF?!

Maybe you should have thought of that before you fired them , Idiot pee on elon.

He was probably in one of his ketamine states and it looked good to him then. Realized, it's got consequences (?). Probably going to decimate the airline industry... slowly. Every day there's something about a near collision or malfunction. Looks like road trip if I have to go anywhere.

Must be karma coming to bite since January 20 with so many airline accidents, mishaps

I think anyone who wants to come back demands a signing bonus from Muskrat!

6 figures. At least

hope they hold out for 7 figures! with inflation & to minimize risk adversity of moronic random chainsaw policy changes & …

Dumbass

Why is he actually posting that. Is he head of hiring and firing now? nobody seems to know what his job is or who runs DOGE yet he can come up with this crap.

I know like he runs our whole government.. Single handily... Crazy!

I hope all retired air traffic controllers e-mailed Elon with this reply:

“ yeees, we can do … a deal, Mr Musk 😼 pull up a chair

There's no way he wrote that himself. Doesn't fit his character of being a raging self-important douche.

You have to read between the lines, the emphasis on "top notch" is to imply obedience. They fired those who wouldn't take a knee...

And the only good air traffic controllers are the ones willing to say "Fuck You, Go Around" to Air Force One if circumstances dictate. It's not a job for yes men.

Sounds a lot like when he fired all the twitter people

But guess you would have to be white male. They just finished firing everyone.

Mediocre too, no doubt!

Curious if even one person has done this. Can't imagine who in their right mind would.

😁

The South African "Genius" should have asked the deep state if there is a mandatory retirement age for conteollers. There is and it's 56.

Eat crow 🐦‍⬛ Elon!

I’m not flying to America anymore!

What a mess musk is making. Thank you to the spineless GOP.

Too bad they’re all working at Home Depot now anyway.

Quit flying. Bring the airlines to their knees.

New hires start in probationary Satus, so if you take the job, be prepared for a bumpy ride with many layovers as the glitchy DOGE system repeatedly hires and fires you.

Not to mention all the other FAA employees fired... Doing checks etc keeping things safe.. Lord knows.. That things can run smoothly And getting rid of the weather service for bad weather, storms etc could be pretty badddd

Now, who could’ve possibly seen that coming. We had no idea.

Appears there’s a shortage of top notch billionaires as well. Most of them appear to be self-centered DICKS!

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!

Overheard!

There are other modes of transportation. Learn to use them.

Elon is the worst businessman ever. He might be a smart investor but he has zero management skills I’ve ever seen displayed publicly

He's never personally never invented anything..

The only thing he thought up was space X but he hired the bright ppl to do the tech NOT himself

So polite admitting you were wrong and rehiring everyone you fired would be better.

The retraining takes a year, most retired from stress from overwork. StarLink will not work with the system (waste of money) Anyone who completed ground school & a solo knows more than Muck & Shawnee Duffy. There is only one person I know on earth that can improve ATC. ONE. He is the EXPERT.

What about the ones you fired for no reason?

Wait until he starts firing his kids. I mean fourteen does not sound like an 'efficient' number, now does it?

One has died, one disowned him 4 year old kid he drags around, he doesn't allow to see his mother You heard his political comments in oval office.. He's been indoctrinated already in a baddd way!

"He's been indoctrinated already in a baddd way!" I think 'Booger Boy' has been parroting things he hears around his dad. Elon is so used to smelling his own farts and calling popcorn, he is oblivious to certain things, like the effects he has on any of his kids.

Hopefully they will! All show up with chainsaws.

Lol

Even though I need to fly across the country, I hope every retired ATC tells Leon to eff off.

Only to be fired during their probationary period....

I ask again. what's the average retirement age for an atc? If only someone had access to this info

56...

I wouldn't come back as long as Musk and the Trump regime are in the White House. .

Musk is busy with his vile of semen impregnating his next baby mama. Bored with DODGE.

Though I fly when need be, I’ve always been afraid of flying. I’m surely not reassured by the sudden uptick in crashes and near misses. I’ve suspected all along it’s due to overworked ATCs overseeing more and more daily flights each year. I’m considering train travel as a viable option!

Demand triple the normal pay.

Don’t. Shut it down

Hope they don't have an afternoon nap while my plane is landing

have a group agree, but only if musk leaves doge

Do they have to take a loyalty test too?

Excellent question.

There is a shortage of normal brain functioning in the WH.

Gee, why is there a shortage?

Guess he should not have fired them all

Does he know air traffic controllers have a mandatory retirement age?

In His Race To 'Free Up' Gov't Money He Can Steal - He's Fired All Trainees and Workers On Probation Without Realizing Seasoned Air Traffic Controllers Take Time To Develop. What A Thieving Nazi Asshole.

He doesn’t know shit but destroying things…

Hmm maybe he wants to use them to train his AI robot replacements. They’ll need it to ‘learn’. We’ve trained much simpler AI models and they have to have examples to learn from…

Why would he care?

Probably not

he doesnt know much

Omg can’t make this stuff up. Horrifying

Unfuckingbelievable! Chaos, that is his goal. Nothing but chaos.

Risking lives every where with cuts.. Nuclear, air traffic, HIV, cancer, other diseases, storms with less NOAA.. Food illness, tesla issues dismissed, The list goes on... Huge problem, they won't have or allow reporting so the public won't know how bad it is!

I also don’t think enough people know about his recreational drug use of ketamine. He probably does other stuff tbh. trump is anti alcohol and drugs unless you benefit him. It’s why he pardoned a fentanyl and sex trafficker. The trade was his crypto. The “deal.” That’s not a deal that’s black mail

Ketamine, lsd, cocaine not heroin.. Oops, ecstasy, mushrooms 🍄 Wonder how often he's sober?

Air traffic controllers have a high rate of suicide. It’s is an EXTREMELY stressful and difficult job. I’m familiar with this personally. (I wasn’t an air traffic controller myself.)

I'll traffic his control! I guarantee that him and shitlers planes would make it to the ground.........or a mountain or the middle of the Ind.ian Ocean on fire.......what do you say,twitler?!

Ooopsie🤭

I hope they negotiate better pay and conditions.

Over your dead body.

Hey, Uhura, one last kiss...

Hey Sulu, Starfleet has ended DEI! Scotty, transport Sulu into deep space. Hey Spock...

🤣 dipshits!

It's his way of saying, I made a mistake but I'm too chickenshit to admit it. Later he'll blame the ATC seniors for not stepping up.

He fired them, stupid fuckface moron!!!

Come back at minimum wage,no vacation,no breaks ,no sick leave,and no security of your job.

Management by social media....is not a thing.

"Please ignore the fact that I'm a billionaire douche-nozzle who knows less than shit, just help bail my ass out."

THERE’S A SHORTAGE OF REPUBLICANS IN THE WHITE SUPREMACIST HOUSE & CONGRESS WITH A SPINE & CONVICTIONS.

Retired from what? I’m retired.. . .

Musk is an utter moron.

I'd negotiate a much higher salary.

8 million a day perhaps?

Isn’t that what Elon is receiving while he fires government employees many of whom are living paycheck to paycheck?

oregonprogressive.com/op/politics/...

I’m not gonna fly

Yep me either!

"There's a shortage of top-notch young air traffic controllers. So if you're still in public school? Consider making your college major whatever it is air traffic controllers get when they graduate. Oh wait. I forgot. We just stopped investing in public schools. Let me get back to you." - Elon Musk

Good!

That flag should be upside down!

I didn't make the image. There ARE US flags around the country currently flying upside down.

Not much security to move family etc... Doubtful!

no

SECURE? Until tomorrow when you get fired.

Secure is they key word there- I doubt anyone who works for him feel secure in their job

Only if you are a Christian, white man, cis genre. If not you are not competent enough.

TruDat! Oh, n also sexist n bigotted. Don't ferget dat! Dey gonna Make Uhmirika Grate agin! Any time nao.! Jus yew wate!

Un fucking believable.

Restrictions apply*

Retired??? What about those that were recently retrenched by DOGE?😏

Sure, unretire and work doubles covering two positions. Seems really tempting

I'm sure Leon will offer some great perks, e.g. low wages.

This guy, what an idiot.

you'd have to be an absolute imbecile to work for the ketamine kowboy. All the retired air traffic controllers in unison, joyously sing together: “Fuck off Nazi”

We are already singing it, trust me.

You break it, you buy it.

"You break, you buy."

if you did script it, it would seem cheap, lazy and unbelievable. we live in the most cursed timeline.

What a freakin dancing dumbass.

They fired diverse younger workers who could have done this for forty or fifty years. They want to rehire old white men.

Who can't legally work passed the age of 56.

For now. I'm sure that will change and you'll have some 78 y/o pasty motherfer doing ATC. Flying is gonna be a "no dawg" from me for a long while. Unless I can catch a plan the F out then I might chance it to live in...idk New Zealand if they'll have me

You can't be serious. Many federal LE positions there are age limitations. You have to start before you turn 37 years old because it's a 20-year and out rule. They have to retire at 57.

Or I could be serious but I did not know that. Thanks for explaining it.

That’s exactly what my husband just said. Fucking asshole!

Not my husband. 🤣

Elon is also pre-emptively blaming Verizon for any accidents that happen in the near future, instead of the mass firings of government safety officials and gutting of safety regulations. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

It's like a piece of $hit, took a $hit, ate it, and then $hit it out again in front of you.

Sounds shitty.

Yep, that’s about the whole of it. Especially the part about the $hit.

Didn’t he fire people in the training program? No retiree would have same quick response timing as a 30 yo but Musk thinks its ok to put them back in the most stressful job situation requiring quick reflexes/decision making? Even Torvill & Dean retired but you wouldn’t bring them back to compete🤷‍♀️

I'm going to go watch that video again. Pure perfection. And yes, humming.

Now I'm going to be humming Bolero all day. Thanks for nothing lol ⛸

😂😂….my pleasure!👍🏼🎼🎼. Its better than Baby Shark….🤷‍♀️🦈

How many has Muskollini already fired?

Ready, Fire! Aim.

In case you didn't know it, all air traffic controllers must retire in the month they turn 56 years of age if not before.

Yesss, it is... High stress job, need good physical conditions etc A few exceptions might be okayed to 61

There's a shortage of us presidents with a moral compass. If you've recently retired please consider....

I’m amazed he thinks someone might want to work for him.

Fucking pathetic. What a fucking idiot he is.

So basically he wants the old workers to re-apply for their old jobs under new terms and lose all their existing benefits.

I'm sure they are lined up. 😆

Sure!

youtu.be/OgSxEoMw-9E?...

I thought we aged out air traffic controllers because they were too old. But now we'll have old fossils in lieu of young, healthy folks who happen to represent women, LGBTQ, BIPOC.

I think it’s 20 years. It can be stressful. I had a relative who started as air traffic controller and afterward moved his way up through the chain of command at the airport. He helped make laws and air traffic rules near the end. His family fell apart and I think he drank himself to death.

The only air traffic controller I knew also drank himself to death. It isn't very comforting to know that.

High stress job... Look at all the close calls lately Probably have to bring a change of clothes to work!

I don’t think I’ll be flying Jurassic Air, thank you very much.

Hey, Eloise the Muck, you get rid of these traffic control professionals because your brain is in your anus, and now you want to hire more because of your ego and stupidity. Well, my, my, my, who'd a thunk it.

Why would anyone want to work for that dick?

Shortage of air traffic controllers at FAA, Shortage of lawyers at DOJ to handle lawsuits against Trump Admin! No shortage of arrogance and stupidity at DOGE! Musk is an idiot, pure and simple!

I swear to god, everyday (sometimes several times a day), I read something that makes me think I'm seeing an Onion parody. You don't need to make shit up, because it is off-the-rails crazy. Muskrat sunk the FAA after he fired hundreds of FAA employees when the agency was already understaffed.

I don’t know how satirists do it nowadays, how do you make fun of a farce?

They're watching the Onion for ideas.

Agree.. Each new story crazier than the last.. Ohhh, for calm, peaceful Kamala... Like with Joe

After that run in with the FAA back in 2023 and all his safety regulation failures it kinda makes you wonder what else he is hiding at Tesla and SpaceX, after all the guy have a friggin black hole as a photo icon...kinda makes you think doesn't it?

Honestly, I'm a teacher and one of the things we teach our students is how to evaluate the reliability of a source--step one is does it sound realistic. I told another teacher yesterday that I keep seeing stories that don't sound realistic but they're true!

There is a shortage of top notch billionaire too. There is an excess of ignorant asshole billionaires though.

I think he flies a lot....

Hahahahahaha

I’m not flying.

All the top notch flight traffic controllers are retired or dead. Elon is just telling it like it is /s

That's 'cos you fired them, muskrat!!

George, the plan is to replace them with a Musk-company solution using Starlink. First he had to break it. vt.tiktok.com/ZSMa6dNFm/

And by your own hand Musk. There's no shame.

Politico is reporting some of the avian flu experts they accidentally fired agreed to come back only to find a buyout offer in their email.

Lordy!

The government has a mandatory retirement age of 56 for air traffic controllers.

“We’d like some geriatric white air traffic controllers, please. We’d rather have people with slower response time than black people.”

I'm not flying anywhere

Likewise. Just going to get worse and worse.

So didn't he just fire some? Or many?