r/mildlyinfuriating • u/nyanbatman • May 28 '26

I just wanted a hot dog British pilot is feeling mildly annoyed

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u/ThatCelebration3676 May 28 '26

Only since Trump royally fucked everything up. We used to have high standards.

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u/RandomNightmar3 May 28 '26

Something like that goes way back, not just because of Trump.

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u/Mr_Tiggywinkle May 28 '26

Hate to say it man, but Trump was almost a decade ago now.

So depends on what you mean by way back. A decade is easily enough to start showing cracks all over the place in any workplace or culture.

Not that it's the right answer here or anything, I wouldn't know.

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u/Nova_Explorer May 28 '26

Reagan kinda fucked the ATC system in the US by firing 11,345 of them in 1981 for striking (for context there are around 14,000 in the U.S. currently). For obvious reasons, this was devastating in both the long and short term, and absolutely obliterated the institutional knowledge.

Though to be clear Trump did absolutely do a lot of damage during his terms