The woeful unpreparedness of Management

[PushingTin]

Testing for Tom Hanks and the like are all paid for by themselves through private companies

FWIW I believe some Celebs are announcing theyre positive in a perverse way to get headlines. Gets them trending for awhile even if they only have the sniffles.

For anyone that hasn't been keeping up with this in the rest of the world, this is where we're headed:

Holy shit @ 627 NEW deaths in ONE day. That's larger than a 9/11 per day for Italy per capita. ?

 

[BCHOOSIER]

Controllers around the country buckle up it's about to be a wild ride. Today was a complete shit show and I fear it's just the tip of the iceberg. My hats off to the controllers that worked at ZID and all the surrounding approach controls, towers, and centers...the Agency got their money's worth today.

 

[fknlo]

One of my friends just got a talking to from a supervisor for kicking her D side out while she had no traffic. Never change FAA, never change.

 

[spider]

One of my friends just got a talking to from a supervisor for kicking her D side out while she had no traffic. Never change FAA, never change.

Ask the supervisor if you can job shadow him today. Then you can cough and be like “don’t worry. It’s just allergies.”

 

[ManBearPig]

Our manager said if we had any ideas on a skeleton staffing schedule, we should try to come up with a plan. There is ZERO direction or guidance coming from the FAA or NATCA. This is a train wreck.

 

[blarg]

You want people available, just as few as possible in the area. Need to be recallable, though, for when other facilities go ATC 0 and you suddenly are getting your ass kicked.

 

[FlimFlam]

I don't know if any NATCA executives read this, but it may be a good idea to do a call in telcon for the membership. There is no leadership coming from anywhere and the members faith is slowly diminishing in your stewardship of this union. You may be working behind the scenes to mitigate the FAA's complete failure in handling this situation, but it appears you're not doing much of anything.

 

[Hissmeowra]

Our manager said if we had any ideas on a skeleton staffing schedule, we should try to come up with a plan. There is ZERO direction or guidance coming from the FAA or NATCA. This is a train wreck.

I drew up an imaginary schedule today where my entire facility (small up/down) is 100% staffed by 3x10hr and 3x8hr shifts, with teams of 2 working 2 on/2 off so you're essentially only exposed to one other individual for any significant amount of time. I mean, something like this should have been implemented last week, so optimistically I'm hoping for them to make an announcement next week that facilities at the local level should figure out how to reduce staffing to absolutely minimize close contact among the "essential" workforce. Or they could just shut us down, I doubt anyone would notice if we went ATC-0 🙄

 

[ManBearPig]

I don't know if any NATCA executives read this, but it may be a good idea to do a call in telcon for the membership. There is no leadership coming from anywhere and the members faith is slowly diminishing in your stewardship of this union. You may be working behind the scenes to mitigate the FAA's complete failure in handling this situation, but it appears you're not doing much of anything.

The Southwest Region is doing a call right now.

Edit: So on the SW Region call, AL said the agency has be resistant to minimal staffing on short work weeks. Un-fucking-real.

 

[sk2286]

The Southwest Region is doing a call right now.

Edit: So on the SW Region call, AL said the agency has be resistant to minimal staffing on short work weeks. Un-fucking-real.

This shit makes my blood boil.

 

[PushingTin]

This shit makes my blood boil.

Ive heard anecdotally from 2 separate RVPs that the agency is fighting NATCA on literally EVERYTHING. Every update we got this week was the product of hours of behind the scenes lobbying and escalating issues to the highest level. Legistlative contacts etc. They didn't even want to close MDW until their hand was forced, which set the table for LAS, JFK, ZID, etc. They are losing, but it shows how much they love power and hate controllers. They have major contempt for "overpaid" entitled NATCA represented line controllers. In a sick twisted way im glad that all the younger controllers have got a real firsthand view of it, instead of hearing about the "white book" but not actually understanding how bad it was.

Its also pretty obvious that some of the posters on here are mgmt.

 

[Super Salt]

Ive heard anecdotally from 2 separate RVPs that the agency is fighting NATCA on literally EVERYTHING. Every update we got this week was the product of hours of behind the scenes lobbying and escalating issues to the highest level. Legistlative contacts etc. They didn't even want to close MDW until their hand was forced, which set the table for LAS, JFK, ZID, etc. They are losing, but it shows how much they love power and hate controllers. They have major contempt for "overpaid" entitled NATCA represented line controllers. In a sick twisted way im glad that all the younger controllers have got a real firsthand view of it, instead of hearing about the "white book" but not actually understanding how bad it was.

Its also pretty obvious that some of the posters on here are mgmt.

The realist shit you’ve ever posted (thus far).

 

[Dontbotherme]

Meanwhile, we are opening positions and CICs because there are too many people on break. Doors are left open so people don’t touch things because we all know we don’t touch TEDs, keyboards, chairs, etc. Skeleton crews are a must.

 

[GulfCharlie]

Meanwhile, we are opening positions and CICs because there are too many people on break. Doors are left open so people don’t touch things because we all know we don’t touch TEDs, keyboards, chairs, etc. Skeleton crews are a must.

Our ATM came in this morning and started calling the rotations... just lol.

 

[Bandit117]

The Southwest Region is doing a call right now.

Edit: So on the SW Region call, AL said the agency has be resistant to minimal staffing on short work weeks. Un-fucking-real.

It’s interesting to note we aren’t getting any reports of major ATC facility closures in Europe, or Asia, even from countries that have full bore infections going on. Maybe they are actually taking it seriously, like it should be?

Anyone know of anything in Europe or Asia?

Our ATM came in this morning and started calling the rotations... just lol.

Your atm is working?! Ours is teleworking, really leading from the front here

 

[Maintainvfr]

Our ATM came in this morning and started calling the rotations... just lol.

Is he CIC qualified? Atsap it.

 

[Wizard]

Meanwhile, we are opening positions and CICs because there are too many people on break. Doors are left open so people don’t touch things because we all know we don’t touch TEDs, keyboards, chairs, etc. Skeleton crews are a must.

Today was the first time in 2 years I've seen us split flight data and clearance delivery (you have to sit in small cubicle together basically) and a sup in the tower other than to get currency or work vip movement.

 

[GulfBravoPapa]

Your atm is working?! Ours is teleworking, really leading from the front here

Ours was in today too. Along with the OM.

 

[ramfan402402]

Anyone else getting the feeling that the supreme court is going to be incredibly busy after this thing dies off? I imagine we have a very small glimpse of a much much larger problem.

 

[Bandit117]

Ours was in today too. Along with the OM.

Is your ATM canceling overtime less than a week out?