I am here because I spent 27 years working airplanes. It was a big part of me, still is. I think Paul writes one of the better blogs about what is going on and I happen to like his writing style. I never implied that you should "bend over and take it from behind", quite to the contrary. Where in what I wrote did you infer that I thought the IWR's were a good thing? My only point in the comment, which was directed towards those who complain and attack non-stop on the bbs, was that we, controllers, are fortunate. Compared to the average American, controllers are fortunate. COmpared to most of the worlds population, controllers are fortunate. That gets missed far too often by far too many.

I wasn't bitching about anything or any of the other posters to this specific blog. I was referring to the same people you were in your blog, those yet to be banned from the bbs.

Of course atcer if I share an opinion different from yours I must be a flm (or stupid).
I spent my time doing the union thing and then I had enough of the lies from both sides. I am done with the job, too many years of atc 11 and 12 traffic, too many years of dealing with the non-stop negativity of people such as yourself and BK. Now I volunteer helping kids and try to look at the world from a perspective different than air traffic control.
Hopefully things will improve for you when the mediated work rules kick in but if what your president released is the best of what is in there....good luck.

Really natca is an amazing collection of misfits. For the past three years the majority has bitched that the faa screwed us over and imposed what they wanted. Now it seems that those same people would prefer that Obama let natca do the same thing to the faa. It would be inconceivable if it was any other bunch of people but from natca nothing less is expected.
By the time the mediation is all settled, maybe some of the newer guys will get their raises but most will probably not. At least we'll be able to keep collecting a paycheck many, many others have lost theirs. It would be a refreshing change if occasionally controllers realized how good a job they have, how easy it usually is, and how dumb ass fortunate they are to have the innate ability to perform it.
Please, please keep the bitching to a minimum, you'll be able to wear your flip-flops and mustard stained big Johnson t-shirts to work again by September.