The FAA Management is so terrified of being held accountable for negative press, which the ZJX situation has become nationwide, that they absolutely would short other centers to put out the fire at ZJX. Theres hardly any recognition in any of these articles of the multi year training process it would take to even get a transfer up to CPC at a new center. Let alone the god knows how many other facilities that have areas entire rosters working OT every single week, with sectors routinely combined when they normally wouldn't be if staffing was adequate. But theres so many bodies on the books that are not actively working traffic, that they cant figure out that the staffing at alot of these places is really hitting a critical level.
Theres zero care on the FAA's part that they are burning people out, and actively creating an unsafe situation throughout the NAS. The number of significant deals at the ARTCC level is skyrocketing, from a combination of inexperience and exhaustion on the controller staff. None of us signed up to work 50+ hour weeks, every week.
Nothing will actually get solved with the way the FAA is run, its totally disheartening. The type of person that seeks/gets "promotions" to management in this agency is not compatible with actual leadership and getting hard things done. They 100% want to avoid being like ZJX and being a story on NBC. So we'll continue to work 6 days a week forever and if we dont like it, tough. The most likely scenario some idiot in DC will come up with is sending 100 Academy grads in a row to ZJX, and then wondering why they aren't all training for 4 Hours a day.
I try not to be a conspiracy theorist but if so many facilities are running on 6 day work weeks it's only a matter of time until there's an incident and then the privatization argument comes back and how it would fix the staffing issues. Or the FAA could be so inept that they don't even have that in mind... they just want to see those training hours met and nothing else.