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by dagoat 2660 days ago
John Dunkin is the pilot you refer to. Do you think that he should be excluded from the job based on his Trump affiliation - or are there specific things he lacks that would mean he would be unsuitable for the job?

It appears that Mr. Dunkin has decades of experience as a pilot and has no previous affiliation with the FAA.
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bdavisx 2660 days ago
Decades of non-management experience in the same field qualifies you to run a 30,000 employee agency?

I've got decades of non-management software dev experience, perhaps I should be in charge of Microsoft?

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dagoat 2660 days ago
Good point. And I think that is an important consideration.

However, to be clear, he does have smaller scale management experience - most likely consistently, but at the very least during the Trump campaign.

Perhaps he would be wrong for the job, but certainly there are examples of both experienced and less experienced/inexperienced persons doing awful jobs at the helm of agencies, companies, and even countries.

I would also add that being in charge of such a massive organization often means you do not get to make off the cuff or unilateral decisions so easily as you would, say, at a 50 person organization. You do certainly get to steer, but there are many other hands on the wheel.

As for you being CEO of MS, Satya is doing a decent enough job + I know nothing of your background and you come off as under confident in your ability to do the job. So I'll go with no :p

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TheLoneAdmin 2660 days ago
He lacks any kind of management experience.
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jki275 2660 days ago
Claiming an airline pilot lacks "any kind of management experience" displays a significant lack of understanding of the job of an airline pilot.
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Bud 2658 days ago
No, it doesn't. Your post does display a great facility for redefining what "management" means, in bad faith, though.
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jki275 2658 days ago
That's an odd assertion. This particular guy may or may not be the guy to run the FAA, I have no idea on that. But I do know that he runs an airline for a massive multi-billion dollar corporation with multiple aircraft and crews.

Claiming he has no management experience is simply false.

Even someone who is not in that kind of position, but a major airline pilot, has significant management experience simply by virtue of the position. They're not like fighter pilots alone and unafraid up there flying around for fun.

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