The Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union says 132 of its technicians, inspectors and maintenance will return to work Thursday after a judge ordered their reinstatement last week. The workers, all probationary employees, were let go Feb. 14 but their dismissal, along with thousands of other probationary employees in various other government departments, was found to be illegal. They will be paid for the month's work they missed.
Yep, “morally reprehensible” pretty-much describes both of them.
Also, “hubris” is another term that comes to mind. Anyone with a semi-smidgen of sense knows that you don’t take a fiendishly complex mechanism like a supercomputer, a human body, a federal agency or, for that matter, a Marvel-Schebler carb, and go hacking into it and yanking things out willy-nilly, and expect it to run better after you’ve dicted with it.
In the immortal words of a local gas station attendant back in the day, “Sur-prise, sur-prise, sur-prise…”
I agree with the comments, this was indeed “morally reprehensible” and reeks of shortsightedness. Aviation safety isn’t something you patch together with duct tape and a prayer. It takes continuity, experience, and trust to keep things running right. Tossing essential personnel out without cause doesn’t just bruise morale, it drains the spirit out of the whole system. The reinstatement is a win for safety.
OK, put them on the 11pm to 7am shift and issue them a toothbrush to clean the bathrooms at whichever government building they work at. Make them want to quit until the legal BS by overreaching judges ends.
I am sorry a few deserving employees may be let go but the bloat and excesses of government has to end before the bankruptcy arrives. This BS can not continue!
I think a lot of the people that were let go were “work at home” employees who refused to come to an office. Hard to oversee safety from your basement. My hope is that this jarred them into realizing they need to actually do the work and not surf the net all day.
Wife: Honey, there are droppings under the sink. We have mice.
Me: I’m on it
10 minutes later . .
Wife: Honey, I smell smoke.
Me: I’m on it. Burning down the house to get rid of the mice.
Hmmmm, I once bought land with a 100 year old home on it. The first thing we did was bulldoze the house and build one that was bigger, more efficient and worked much better for our needs. Sometimes burning it down is a good thing!
Bob. The FAA tech areas are not exactly training grounds. They have requirements for extensive experience in what ever the job is about before hiring a person. And because it is a good job, they have lots of very qualified persons applying. They are probationary only because that is what a first year employee is assigned in their job description. . Probably some exceptional folks were kicked out the door. But you knew that.
SO! In the real world probationary means you can be fired for no reason whatsoever. And BTW, government worker unions are BS, even the socialist FDR knew that.
“ All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.” FDR
It’s worse than that. Janet Yellen created a situation where we are truly in peril since a great deal of that debt matures in a very short period of time. A spike in rates could be disastrous with so much of the debt with short term maturity. That Trillion in interest could easily become double that or more. The malfeasance is astounding.
That activist judge is way out of line. She at least agreed that the Trump administration had the right to fire these people. She just didn’t like the way it was done. They will be fired twice if they come back. If they are smart, those fired would be looking for work in the private sector, for instance replacing all the illegals now self-deporting.