Election saturation

This arrived in my inbox from a friend:

You know it's election season when...
Heard on the Green Bay ATIS broadcast:

"...advise on initial contact that you have information Bravo. I'm Green Bay
Ground Control and I approved this ATIS."


--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love
America

"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message
...
This arrived in my inbox from a friend: [joke snipped]

That was the "Short Final" from AvWeb this week. Undoubtedly, that's where
your friend got it (either directly, or through a chain of forwards).

You know it's election season when...

I called Fort Dodge Flight Service today for a briefing. The FSS briefer
asked for my credit card number!

Taken aback, I laughed and asked if they took "Discover." He laughed, but
quite seriously said "That's what it will be like if they out-source us..."

"They" meaning, I suspect, the Bush Administration?

I'll be really glad when this election is behind us.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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"They" meaning, I suspect, the Bush Administration?

The Bush Administration doesn't have enough time left to out-source FSSs.

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
...
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
newst0dd.273765$D%.135894@attbi_s51...
[...]
"They" meaning, I suspect, the Bush Administration?

The Bush Administration doesn't have enough time left to out-source FSSs.

51 months should be plenty of time.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
newst0dd.273765$D%.135894@attbi_s51...
You know it's election season when...

I called Fort Dodge Flight Service today for a briefing. The FSS briefer
asked for my credit card number!

Taken aback, I laughed and asked if they took "Discover." He laughed, but
quite seriously said "That's what it will be like if they out-source
us..."

"They" meaning, I suspect, the Bush Administration?

Yes, but only after they finish clubbing the baby seals and paving over the
Amazon to make parking for the Super Wal-Mart Extra Mega Supercenter.

I like the idea of FSS. Despite being a self-proclaimed geek I am genuinely
fond of the concept of having knowledgeable *people* to talk to before
making a potentially life-or-death decision. Unfortunately, this does not
describe what FSS has in many cases become. Many of the briefers simply read
what I could have gotten off DUATS just as easily.

If they do outsource it, I suspect it will be some time before we see direct
user fees, but the most immediate effect will be to drive out all of the
good people who remain as FSS becomes one big call center somewhere in
Georgia. Of course, those people are disappearing over time anyway so I'm
not so convinced anything we do at this point is going to make a difference
anyway.

-cwk.

If they do outsource it, I suspect it will be some time before we see
direct
user fees, but the most immediate effect will be to drive out all of the
good people who remain as FSS becomes one big call center somewhere in
Georgia.

No way. It will go to a swing state, like Pennsylvania or New Mexico
instead.


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as FSS becomes one big call center somewhere in
Georgia.

You mean Pakistan, don't you?

Jose

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:30:40 GMT, "C Kingsbury"
wrote in
et::

If they do outsource it [FSS], I suspect it will be some time before we see direct
user fees, but the most immediate effect will be to drive out all of the
good people who remain as FSS becomes one big call center somewhere in
Georgia.

Most likely, the FSS personnel would be located in India (or some
other 3rd world country) like AT&T's tech-support staff. Hey, it's
about profitability not safety, right? :-(

FSS becomes one big call center somewhere in Georgia

Possibly Georgia in the former USSR...or India.