Hiring Bid FAA-ATO-21-ALLSRCE-73599

chaos said:

Lol this is great. Classic FAA.

This fiasco is the appetizer. A lil taste of what's to come lol.

Started the process last night as the bid opened up but quit around 2 AM. Started again today around 2 PM and just got it submitted at around 10. Constantly refreshing each page of the Aviator portion to see if I could move even a little further. 1 step forward, two steps back. I would say for those trying to get it submitted I had 3 windows of around 2 minutes throughout the day where the servers were actually working enough to make any progress.

jsithepilot said:

Started the process last night as the bid opened up but quit around 2 AM. Started again today around 2 PM and just got it submitted at around 10. Constantly refreshing each page of the Aviator portion to see if I could move even a little further. 1 step forward, two steps back. I would say for those trying to get it submitted I had 3 windows of around 2 minutes throughout the day where the servers were actually working enough to make any progress.

The good news is you don’t have to do anything else for months.

dk001 said:

if I were to use my previous atsa score, would I have to do something in particular? or would I just ignore the ATSA signup e-mail? Got a TOL last bid, but couldn't accept it for personal reasons

You can ignore it. I had a BQ and applied again, and let the application email sit. Your score is good for 3 years unless something has changed in the last year and a half.

Well it took about 2 hours but we are back again. Fingers crossed for everyone, looks like I'll be lurking around her again now

ive been retrying since about 8pm est finally submitted!

looks like the traffic has died! felt like I didn't have a life today after starting over like a million times lol

Momo said:

looks like the traffic has died! felt like I didn't have a life today after starting over like a million times lol

i was applying at my tattoo apt and my dude was stressing with me lmao

redsphanatic said:

When I applied back in ‘14, we had to walk uphill both ways through snow…

haha i'm getting old, but i've not aged out yet!

Momo said:

looks like the traffic has died! felt like I didn't have a life today after starting over like a million times lol

I just submitted mine! Only after 2 breakdowns later

ezrider said:

i was applying at my tattoo apt and my dude was stressing with me lmao

That’s one way to not feel the pain of a needle

i've been checking all day, FINALLY got mine submitted just now. *sigh of relief*

I’m a CTI grad and filled out the information accordingly but it says I’m not eligible for this bid? Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

Alexanderjrho said:

I’m a CTI grad and filled out the information accordingly but it says I’m not eligible for this bid? Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

hmm, check if you meet the requirements listed, age etc? I think if you answer no to a question that requires a yes then it automatically rejects you.

Momo said:

hmm, check if you meet the requirements listed, age etc? I think if you answer no to a question that requires a yes then it automatically rejects you.

thanks for the advice! I got it submitted after swapping one response to a yes.

Only took me 5 min to apply at 430am! Thank goodness...

Couldn't get past the first page of AVIATOR all day yesterday, but flew through it all in just a few minutes at about 8:20 CST this morning!

dk001 said:

if I were to use my previous atsa score, would I have to do something in particular? or would I just ignore the ATSA signup e-mail? Got a TOL last bid, but couldn't accept it for personal reasons

Contact the rep on your previous TOL.

I formally declined the offer in October/September 2020 (personal reasons, noted in an actual response to the offer) and got a second one in the same batch as the people whose AT-SA was delayed by covid without asking. I don't know what triggered the new one, but I accepted the new one xD.

Maybe they can send you a fresh TOL and you can bypass this shenanigans entirely. IDK, looking at your posting history, it appears you accepted the TOL and then dropped out? (I never accepted it in the first place)

Applied! Good luck everyone!

Petey said:

Applied! Good luck everyone!

Nice! Now forget this ever happened until you're invited to take the ATSA, which could be many months lol

This is going to be an even more interesting thread than the usual OTS hiring bids.

And that NBC segment was beyond cringe, even for the FAA.