Federal Aviation Administration seeks employment candidates with "severe intellectual" disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental conditions

[Harpy Eagle]

FAA controls the air and that is VERY high stress job. Perfect for someone with disabilities and mental problems right?

Not all their jobs are controlling the air and high stress.

They have admin job and contracting jobs and others.

 

[pknopp]

no one is just talking about pilots. Most jobs in the FAA require the need to be proficient and mentally stable.

The offices don't need cleaned? Again, isn't the argument that people should work as opposed to sitting around collecting a check?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

So long as they can meet standards. Absolutely not. However they are LOWERING standards so that they can get the jobs.

I am a pilot, however I am old, so I no longer fly as Pilot in Command, I have younger, more capable pilots fly my plane and I act as copilot.

I know my limitations, and act accordingly.

These new hires DON'T know their limitations.

So ask yourself, do you want to fly with a pilot who has thousands of hours on their resume, or someone hired because of their skin tone?

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I asked the same thing when I got out-melanin-ed for a job in coronary care in a big hospital -- who do you want on your team when your life is hanging in the balance, someone with years of experience or someone with skin pigment?

I got the delightful feeling of schadenfreude that came when the department heads started having to listen to everyone in the department yelling about how incompetent the person was.

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[JackOfNoTrades]

Sad to say, but how is this a surprise?

Your date night? Which one are you?

 

[BackAgain]

If you could stick to the topic, that would be great. When sticking to the topic, maybe stick to the facts also.

What is wrong with people getting a job? In thread after thread after thread, that is what is argued that people should do.

If you could get one of the attendants at your institution to assist you with the big words, that would be great. And when doing so, do try to pay attention.

There’s nothing wrong with people getting jobs, you brainless gerbil.

But again, we want people who are actually QUALIFIED for the job to be the ones to get the jobs. We wouldn’t, for example, want a senile demented old pedo-inclined scumbag to serve as President of the United States.

Or the example I offered before —which you are too obtuse to grasp: a firefighter with no arms and no legs to carry you out of a burning building.

 

[pknopp]

If you could get one of the attendants at your maturation to assist you with the big words, that would be great. And when doing so, do try to pay attention.

There’s nothing wrong with people getting job, you brainless gerbil.

But again, we want people who are actually QUALIFIED for the job to be the ones to get the jobs. We wouldn’t, for example, want a senile demented old pedo-inclined scumbag to serve as President of the United States.

Or the example I offered before —which you are too obtuse to grasp: a firefighter with no arms and no legs to carry you out of a burning building.

What jobs specifically are being offered to people not able to perform them?

 

[BackAgain]

What jobs specifically are being offered to people not able to perform them?

That’s a good question.

And the fact that you’re asking means that you don’t know.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

That’s a good question.

And the fact that you’re asking means that you don’t know.

Or that none exist.

 

[Independent thinker]

Apparently the demand for these specific employees stems from the FAA’s "Diversity and Inclusion" hiring plan, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg's Department of Transportation.

Potential staff with severe psychiatric disability were one of the primary demographs targeted for employment with the FAA under Buttigieg.

Anyway...

FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities

Fox News Digital has learned the Federal Aviation Administration is pushing a hiring initiative that emphasizes employing people with "missing extremities" and other disabilities.

www.foxnews.com

We'd want to be inclusive. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[BackAgain]

Or that none exist.

Or, and try to follow along here, it could be that if there is no answer, that itself is a problem.

 

[pknopp]

That’s a good question.

And the fact that you’re asking means that you don’t know.

And you believe I should be like you and jump to negative conclusions.

 

[BackAgain]

And you believe I should be like you and jump to negative conclusions.

I don’t. And I didn’t.

But you’re so intellectually dishonest, even the possibility is intolerable to you.

 

[pknopp]

I don’t. And I didn’t.

But you’re so intellectually dishonest, even the possibility is intolerable to you.

Provide the facts and it could be discussed. Until then it's just Fox News pulling your chain.

 

[BackAgain]

Provide the facts and it could be discussed. Until then it's just Fox News pulling your chain.

You’re intellectually dishonest and a coward.

By the way, those aren’t good traits.

 

[BackAgain]

I believe (together with pal, pk) that we NEED more inspectors to examine things like the bolts on aircraft doors.

But why should these jobs be denied to the blind!?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Not if they meet the same standards. No, that is not a given.

The standards are set by the Federal government. I don't know where people get the idea that it's even possible to lower the standards just because a candidate is a minority or female.

It's really kind of a stupid position to take if you think about it but this is the constant refrain we hear from those who believe that affirmative action legislates putting less qualified Black people into positions thereby displacing more qualified whites, when what affirmative action actually provides is opportunity to compete and be considered for a position that one is qualified to occupy.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

So long as they can meet standards. Absolutely not. However they are LOWERING standards so that they can get the jobs.

I am a pilot, however I am old, so I no longer fly as Pilot in Command, I have younger, more capable pilots fly my plane and I act as copilot.

I know my limitations, and act accordingly.

These new hires DON'T know their limitations.

So ask yourself, do you want to fly with a pilot who has thousands of hours on their resume, or someone hired because of their skin tone?

You're a commercial airline pilot who went from the left seat back to the right?

How can you be a pilot and now know what is required to fly for the airlines?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

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[westwall]

You're a commercial airline pilot who went from the left seat back to the right?

How can you be a pilot and now know what is required to fly for the airlines?

I never claimed to be ATP. I have several thousand hours in light and multi engined aircraft to include warlords.

I DO however have friends who ARE ATP and they keep me informed on the sorry state of affairs in the aviation industry.

And YES standards are indeed being lowered.

 

[Markle]

There is zero indications that anyone unable to do any certain job is being hired.

But as I note Fox triggers you and you jump.

And the examples list goes on, and on, and on.