Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs
www.thedailybeast.com
Federal employees were told they could use their paid time off to explore “dream destinations” before quitting.

Summary

The Trump administration emailed air traffic controllers urging them to quit and accept buyouts 24 hours after a fatal Reagan plane crash.

At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the email urged federal employees to pursue private-sector jobs, offering pay incentives and vacation benefits while on government payroll.

This program contradicts established rules by allowing second employment, sparking union concerns about losing experienced personnel amid an air traffic controller shortage.

Trump blamed previous administrations for safety issues and misrepresented FAA standards, intensifying culture wars as officials remain uncertain about the buyout program’s future.

  • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
    535·
    1 day ago

    You know what, fuck it. I hope they quit. Let’s accelerate this whole bullshit to its conclusion as fast as possible. Seems to me the only way through this fascist hellscape is by pissing off enough people to provoke a popular response.

    • Rooty@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Accelerationism is helping the enemy. You should be doing the exact opposite - resisting, rallying and counterattacking.

    • Bloodyhog@lemmy.world
      25·
      17 hours ago

      A lot of people had this attitude in Russia. Let the evil guys run the country to the ground, and then rebuild into a better structure. This will happen, I think, the only problem is that can take decades and millions of people dead in the process. No suggestions here, just a note…

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I think you underestimate just exactly how popular Putin is with the Russian people, or I should say was originally. I don’t think he’s as popular now because of the “police action” in Ukraine and the number of Russians who have died to it and the economic hit the country has taken as a result of it. But he was insanely popular with the Russian populace through most of the 2010s.

        • FanciestPants@lemmy.world
          1·
          25 minutes ago

          Didn’t he win his last election with something like 94% of the vote. The dude is outrageously popular… or there might be something else going on.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
      151·
      16 hours ago

      Accelerationism is the stupidest idea ever. Shit being fucked is the natural state of things, and if you just let it slide, it will gradually come to it and stay there forever.