The FAA wrote the book on bureaucratic incompetence.
Yep, they will rather hire an 18 year old than someone with 20 years experience
My son,who works at the Atlanta Center,will back that up.
He flew with a regional in CRJ's for a couple of years and soon realized that airline pilots would never make the money they used to.He got picked up for training as a controller and changed careers about four years ago.His tales of bureaucratic idiocy seem to be getting worse. He told me that one day his supervisor was walking behind everyone's chairs and bending down at each station. When my son asked him what was going on he said he'd been tasked to make sure everyone was wearing socks!
His immediate supervisors,according to him,are examples of the Peter Principle,they've advanced to the level of their incompetence.They are more concerned about the dress code than they are about safety!