TangoWhiskey
Touchdown! Greaser!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/11/tower.break/index.html
Planes circle for 18 minutes while lone controller takes a potty break.
Planes circle for 18 minutes while lone controller takes a potty break.
12 minutes to go to the john? Either that or there was some good reading material.
Jeff
12 minutes to go to the john? Don't they have one near the tower station? Or do they have to go down the stairs, to the other end of the building, turn right at the end of the hall?
It's a government bureaucracy. Would outright lies surprise you? The cynic's view is that a bureaucracy's sole purpose is to perpetuate itself and grow to the extent possible.If they make this kind thing fodder for user fees, it would be an outright lie.
It's a government bureaucracy. Would outright lies surprise you? The cynic's view is that a bureaucracy's sole purpose is to perpetuate itself and grow to the extent possible.
A friend of a friend is a air traffic controller - so take this comment for what it's worth.
To hear him tell it, starting very recently, controllers have been 'making a point' by unofficially slowing things down so long as there is a legitimate (i.e. anything that is defensible from an adverse employment action) reason. Can't fire the lone controller for taking an allowed bathroom break. Can't fire controllers who are spacing long and wide during any type of weather since they're just insuring safety. Well, you get the picture. I pointed out that this was just a passive-aggressive form of holding the system hostage, to which he just shrugged the 'so what' shrug.