Posted on 04/18/2011 3:57:28 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Do you ever fall asleep on the job?
Posted by: Jay Kernis - Senior Producer
ONLY ON THE BLOG: Answering today's OFF-SET questions is Billie H. Vincent, president an CEO of Aerospace Services International.
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Based on your experience, will these changes make a difference?
"And, is a controller better suited to function alertly if he/she has to work a week of straight mid-shifts, a month of these shifts - or an occasional one every other week?
In addition, the FAA Administrator has announced that he will take the head of the Air Traffic Controller’s union along with him on a tour of selected FAA ATC facilities. Both Secretary LaHood and FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt are pro-labor – Babbitt got his job as FAA Administrator as a result of this Democratic alliance and his previous position as head of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).
When you see the FAA take the union along on what should be an FAA management tour to address management problems – that says that the union is involved in the management of the ATC facilities. You cannot be pro-labor and perform hard-nosed executive functions on the public’s behalf at the same time."
(Excerpt) Read more at inthearena.blogs.cnn.com ...
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Never worked for the government ever.
In 45 years? No.
Only the govt will not fire a 140K a year employee caught sleeping on a critical job and instead hire an extra employee to help him out!
Part of their problem it seems is to switch them often between day and night shifts. It’s hard for the human body to adjust to those changes in a healthy way if the scheduling is done without rhyme or reason. It would be better to have dedicated day and night shift people.
From Dept. of Health & Human Svcs:
“Dismissal will be pursued for any employee who is responsible for the care, health, safety, and welfare of students/children and is confirmed sleeping while on duty.”
http://www.ncoes.net/Policies/Sleeping_on_the_Job_Policy.pdf
Human Factors for ATC Specialists
http://www.hf.faa.gov/docs/508/docs/volpe/hfatcs.pdf
No!
...but Biden has, and recently.
No I can’t fall asleep,too much high speed machinery,waiting for me to slip up!
And worse still these guys were swing shifting. Sometimes being on days and sometimes on nights eats your brain, you never get a chance to develop a circadian rhythm, you wind up with zombie people.
I’ve worked as an RN 11P-7A; 3A-3P; presently working 7A-7P. It might help to have split shifts so they don’t have to pull an all nighter especially if they work completely alone.
I done the swing shift until I couldn’t do it any more. My body said enough. It wasn’t worth a heart attack that was coming.
"Yes, I have".
Joe AKA 'Sleepy' Biden
Can’t they have a loud air horn triggered from the incoming airplane? Maybe a slight electrical charge on the union brother’s gonads........
Seems like there is a simple solution to the problem, but then again we are talking about government workers.
Read my tagline.
I don’t have a union to protect me when I’m caught screwing up.
Viewed your about page. LOL!
And the man/lady sitting behind him looks like he/she’s dead....lol. And isn’t Obama supposed to be such an awe-inspiring public speaker??
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