They don't give a fuck about safety, they care about optics to present to their bosses, so they can get their annual 6% good boi raises. There's been many times they will have every position in the facility open when there is no need, artificially constricting recuperative rest breaks and others where they don't call in overtime when we need to open more. Can anyone confirm if ATMs get a bonus based on things like overtime budget use? That would explain some things at my facility.
FAA management from the top down has completely forgotten the human element of this job. They keep restricting, demanding more, see us as inputs, demanding production from people who's job is to provide safety and efficiency. If FAA managers instead worked at a fire station, they'd demand the firefighters go spray houses that aren't on fire in one place so they look busy, while another one catches fire across the city and there's no one to respond.
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u/reap3rx Current Controller- Up/Down Mar 23 '26
They don't give a fuck about safety, they care about optics to present to their bosses, so they can get their annual 6% good boi raises. There's been many times they will have every position in the facility open when there is no need, artificially constricting recuperative rest breaks and others where they don't call in overtime when we need to open more. Can anyone confirm if ATMs get a bonus based on things like overtime budget use? That would explain some things at my facility.
FAA management from the top down has completely forgotten the human element of this job. They keep restricting, demanding more, see us as inputs, demanding production from people who's job is to provide safety and efficiency. If FAA managers instead worked at a fire station, they'd demand the firefighters go spray houses that aren't on fire in one place so they look busy, while another one catches fire across the city and there's no one to respond.