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.
Snack bar mechanics and pilots
It’s racist to land a plan without causing fatalities.
Hurry up, Jan 2025!
It doesn’t make sense that a government agency would want to hire people with these conditions.
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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A lot of people with Down’s syndrome have better work ethics than many government employees, so I don’t have any problem with hiring them for jobs they can do.
How could you overlook FUBAR?
Something you never thought you would read ine news unless it waa April Fools Day.
What could possibly go wrong?
>> It doesn’t make sense that a government agency would want to hire people with these conditions.
That’s okay! Good, even! We are in the Post-MakesSense era.
My daughter flew home from Australia two nights ago and all I could think of was the door that flew off that plane. She was arriving in Spokane on a late flight anyway and I’m so very glad the door stayed on and she’s home. She lives 85 miles north, spent the night here before driving home.
No passenger or relative should have to be worried about idiocy like that.
>> I don’t have any problem with hiring them for jobs they can do.
I don’t have any problem with hiring Down’s Syndrome folks, either.
For the JOBS THEY CAN DO.
Federal AVIATION ADMINISTRATION jobs are almost certainly not among the “jobs they [as Down’s Syndrome folks] can do”.
Public safety (including THEIR safety by the way) outweighs the “need” to be a bleeding heart kneejerk sympathizer with anyone “differently abled”.
This Guy must be losing his fastball. Lol
They are going to keep pushing unqualifications until either America is destroyed or they are removed in an absolute fashion.
Maybe the deaf, dumb and blind kid from The Who’s Pinball Wizard can control flights by intuition like he played pinball.
Well, they are ruining the auto industry with electric vehicles, why not ruin air transportation too by making it unsafe to fly? You would think this was all some sort of sinister plot to keep people from traveling about freely.
“For whom the gods first wish to destroy, they make them mad”
Can someone post a link to the Rob Schneider standup about this?
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