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The FAA’s Hiring Scandal

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739 points firebaze | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 05:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.318s | source
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legitster ◴[05 Feb 25 15:05 UTC] No.42949439[source]▶
This is a fascinating read, but the thing that bugs me about this whole affair is that when this came to light many years ago it was treated as a cheating and recruitment scandal. But only recently has it been reframed as a DEI issue.

Taking old, resolved scandals - slapping a coat of culture war paint on it - and then selling it as a new scandal is already a popular MO for state-sponsored propoganda, so we should be extra wary of stories like this being massaged.

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Manuel_D ◴[05 Feb 25 16:02 UTC] No.42950437[source]▶
> Taking old, resolved scandals

The lawsuit is still ongoing. The scandal has not yet resolved.

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1. hitekker ◴[05 Feb 25 20:06 UTC] No.42954358[source]▶
Yes, the scandal is not over because the FAA continued to conflate diversity with performance.

In 2023, the FAA set several, major goals for DEIA initiatives and only one target for hiring more Air Traffic controllers. https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/FY23%20OSI-M%20and%2...

Or from 2021, where they wrote "Diversity + Inclusion = Better Performance" https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/about/office_org/hea...

Too many examples. Compared to 2016, the FAA of the 2020s was better at hiding their written bias. Nonetheless, they failed to attract the talent they needed.