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General Discussion / Re: We don't talk enough...
« on: November 09, 2018, 04:38:43 PM »Quote
I promised myself I would stay out of this.
You didn't do very well there.
Josh, you said you feel out of the loop. There isn't enough transparency. We should have more town hall meetings, and the lack of a public forum troubles you and, you know what, it should. So let me ask you, if there truly is a lack of a public forum why haven't you asked your ATM the questions that trouble you? You have questions and concerns why haven't you brought them to your ATM? I could go on, but each point ends with why haven't you brought your concerns to your ATM? He is the point person for your ARTCC. He has, or should have, the answer you seek and if he doesn't , he knows who to speak with to get it. Your ATM is supposed to do more than just kick people off the roster because they haven't controlled enough last month. He is your representative to the Division. You want a democracy? You got one. Convince your ATM to keep you informed. Convince your ATM to make sure that all of the new guys get trained. Convince your ATM to bring to the Division any questions, problems, or good ideas that he thinks will enhance what we do. Convince your ATM to sit down with the ATMs of the surrounding ARTCCs and develop a plan for sharing information and creating good time events.
Josh doesn't have an ATM to report to. Because his ATM got removed. For reasons unknown to most, if not all, of us. Speculation can run wild in a situation where your regular members don't know what's happening to those that are supposed to be leading them. And now, it's resulted in a situation to where it feels like there maybe something personal that caused all this to happen. But what do I know? I'm just a controller in the dark.
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You want democracy? You want a town hall meeting? You want to meet with the Division to find out what's going on? No you don't. You want a town hall meeting because it's easy to roast people, policy and plans in a group setting than argue with your ATM about something he already knows about and maybe even agrees with.
One last thing. Is a town hall meeting an important piece of this puzzle? It is. But it is because it's a public relations requirement and not because anything good ever comes out of them.
Got it. We'll just go and sit in our own kingdoms and scheme up some cool things to try. God forbid we try and collaborate with others and make find improvements that we can make to have a more connected division.
But nope, it's apparently just a PR stunt, so let's pull up the drawbridge and fill the moats again.
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Your ARTCC isn't being run into the ground is it?
My facilities staff hasn't been randomly fired yet, so maybe it is, maybe it isn't? How would I know?