Posted on 01/14/2024 9:45:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.
"Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring," the FAA’s website states. "They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism."
The initiative is part of the FAA’s "Diversity and Inclusion" hiring plan, which claims "diversity is integral to achieving FAA's mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond." The FAA’s website shows the agency’s guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.
This is what, back in my days in Uncle Sam's colors, we used to refer to as a "Charlie Foxtrot."
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The FAA wants to bring in people who are "under-represented," including, of all things, people with "severe intellectual disability" and "psychiatric disability." Of all the things they list, those two are the most concerning. At what, precisely, does the FAA plan to put these people to work doing? It's safe to assume that by "severe intellectual disability," one means at best a substandard IQ, if not an outright inability to function in any organized workplace; there's a reason these people are "under-represented" in the workplace, and it's because there is just so little we can safely have them do - especially in this industry, which involves, I remind you, loading a couple of hundred people in a jet-propelled aluminum can and propelling them through the air at 36,000 feet for a few hours.
Even more disconcerting, though, is the perceived need to bring in those with a "psychiatric disability." Given the line of work I'm in, I get to read all manner of government-agency lunacy every day, so it takes a real whopper to faze me these days, but when I first read that, I honestly did a double-take - "Wait, what?" On second reading, though, yes, I had it right. The FAA - who I remind you, is responsible for ensuring safe air travel - is planning to ramp up hiring of those with "psychiatric disabilities." What kind of psychiatric disabilities? Sociopathy, I would posit, is a psychiatric disability, as is schizophrenia or "other psychotic disorders," bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive disorder. Surely the FAA isn't going to be hiring people with these kinds of disorders to do, well, anything the FAA needs done?
Has our federal government gone absolutely bonkers? What in the world could the U.S. taxpayers, who after all are paying for all this, have to gain by the FAA taking this bats*** crazy action?
This latest effort by the FAA is downright unsettling, and whoever takes the seat at the Resolute Desk next January should look into dismantling this initiative, tout de suite.
Gee, I thought they had already done that to populate El Retardo’s cabinet. There isn’t a single normal person there.
My son has Asbergers.
It’s considered a disability.
He could easily stare at that screen all day and never lose focus or lose track of a single plane.
Given how calm he is under pressure, he would make a great FAA air traffic controller.
There’s one in the White House, where residents feel like presidents...lol
Not going to end well.
Pilots cannot be compromised like that without sacrificing lives and flight attendants need to be physically to do their job in the even of an emergency.
Our government is infected with these mentally ill woke and racist deviants who want to inflict as much pain on the normal
Yea, at the local fast food, grocery store etc. work with the FAA? Hell no! Financially incentivize the disturbed, great idea. An organization that is responsible for the safe navigation of our skies by millions of people. No thanks.
This country is screwed!!!!!
Sorry but nope!
“What could possibly go wrong?”
This: Sum Ting Wong
Leadership starts at the top.
FAA Administrator Whitaker needs to lead by example by having an armed security team made up of people with psychiatric disabilities and a blind driver with epilepsy.
Maybe he can convince his boss, Mayor Pete, to put down the chest pump and show some leadership too.
EC
#Woke must DEI a Suddenly Unexpected outcome ASAP
On a mission to help folks get to the other side.
I do wonder, like with the medical establishment, if there's a passive-aggressive angle for to reduce the demand on the corrupt system.
Every day it becomes more and more obvious that this systematic degradation of America’s institutions is deliberate.
recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions
Check the White House...
“... FAA Is Actively Recruiting People With ‘Severe Intellectual’ and Psychiatric Disabilities...”
So they are trying to staff-up with a lot of democrats.
What could possibly go wrong?
Next thing you know they’ll recruit blind pilots.
That’s true.
I knew this had to be Babylon Bee. But it ISN’T!
Their goal has always been to reduce fossil fuels, and to discourage widespread travel. They want those 15 Minute Cities across the country so it’s easier to keep tabs on, and control, citizens.
Scaring the living s**t out of Americans by announcing and implementing these hiring policies will result in a decrease in air travel.
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