This had more to do with the shortage in dispatch than anything else. The turnover in dispatch is pretty high, and the company makes the scholarship recipients sign an agreement that they have to stay here for a while (two years I think). If they hadn't put the internals in the dispatch program in September we would have been very short on dispatchers when the Mesaba fence goes up in January.

Otherwise I agree with you on the ridiculous waste that goes on around here.