If all you’re going to comment is that I’m being a crybaby and to quit, then kindly go elsewhere. Looking for actual help, but I have no problem quitting if there isn’t a single thing I can do.
Otherwise, tldr: looking for advice on if there’s anything I can say to the agency because I’m finding out I’ll probably be delayed about 2 years POST the date they called all devs back for training.
I’m an enroute dev and got hired March 2021. Passed the academy early sept 2021. I chose my facility (not sure if saying which one will hurt me or not) and got here after a few days of change of station.
When I got here, I found out there were already about 40 graduates going as far back as right before the pandemic who were waiting for a d-side class. We were told that training was stopped due to COVID and was starting again. Great, I was hopeful and motivated to study.
Just last week, I was given an update from my article 17 that I should expect my d-side class to be June 2023. I thought I’d get one earlier this year, possibly around October 2022, but it turns out they’re delaying d-side classes to push a trainee into an r-side class, even though he has not completed all his d-sides. I’ll have waited about 1 year 9 months for my class by that time.
I understand COVID delays. I understand I signed up to move wherever the faa needs people. But what pisses me off is why this facility was accepting academy graduates if they’re not going to train them for nearly 2 fucking years, being paid a salary that is just barely above the poverty line here (even after accounting for locality pay). The crappy part is that we get paid just above the minimum amount to qualify for financial assistance.
Can I do anything about this besides complain? Or can I somehow make a case against the agency because they are the ones who hired us, but we have no training class in sight. They made us move and spend money to uproot our lives, but provide a wage that does not scale according to the area’s cost of living. The fact that I have to physically come in to work even though I’m not being trained; instead, I watch controllers work for 8 hours and then go home. Yeah, they’ve got me on a crew, which gives me like +$100 per pay check, but crews are the dumbest schedule ever to be invented. That quick turnaround feels WAY worse compared to that “extended weekend.”
Otherwise, tldr: looking for advice on if there’s anything I can say to the agency because I’m finding out I’ll probably be delayed about 2 years POST the date they called all devs back for training.
I’m an enroute dev and got hired March 2021. Passed the academy early sept 2021. I chose my facility (not sure if saying which one will hurt me or not) and got here after a few days of change of station.
When I got here, I found out there were already about 40 graduates going as far back as right before the pandemic who were waiting for a d-side class. We were told that training was stopped due to COVID and was starting again. Great, I was hopeful and motivated to study.
Just last week, I was given an update from my article 17 that I should expect my d-side class to be June 2023. I thought I’d get one earlier this year, possibly around October 2022, but it turns out they’re delaying d-side classes to push a trainee into an r-side class, even though he has not completed all his d-sides. I’ll have waited about 1 year 9 months for my class by that time.
I understand COVID delays. I understand I signed up to move wherever the faa needs people. But what pisses me off is why this facility was accepting academy graduates if they’re not going to train them for nearly 2 fucking years, being paid a salary that is just barely above the poverty line here (even after accounting for locality pay). The crappy part is that we get paid just above the minimum amount to qualify for financial assistance.
Can I do anything about this besides complain? Or can I somehow make a case against the agency because they are the ones who hired us, but we have no training class in sight. They made us move and spend money to uproot our lives, but provide a wage that does not scale according to the area’s cost of living. The fact that I have to physically come in to work even though I’m not being trained; instead, I watch controllers work for 8 hours and then go home. Yeah, they’ve got me on a crew, which gives me like +$100 per pay check, but crews are the dumbest schedule ever to be invented. That quick turnaround feels WAY worse compared to that “extended weekend.”
