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'Up to 15 or 20′ air traffic controllers are retiring daily
(www.pennlive.com)
Doesn't seem like a big deal when there are 14,000 of them. .001% daily turnover seems really good.
EDIT: Figured this wrong.
15-20 daily is 5,475-7,300 per year or 40-50% of that 14,000 every year. It apparently takes 6 months to 4 years to train each one. So 15-20 a day seems unsustainable.
No don't you see, it's just during this shutdown that they're getting tired of being work to death. Now that the Democrats have bent over and shown their assholes to the Republicans the shutdown will end and all of these grossly overworked people will buckle back down and stop quitting their jobs.
From the article, they aren't quitting, they are retiring. Shutdown only accelerated the problem of how many are retiring.
They are retiring early. Yes i did read the article.
No, that's just come on your cheek.
How do you get that number? If we assume 10 retiring per day (based on title), and 250 workdays per year, that's 2500 people per year. I guess whether it's a problem also depends on how many new people enter the industry.
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