Originally Posted by
Meme In Command
I haven't heard 1800, but the optimists say that DL felt the need to play their cards close to their chest after putting out more optimistic numbers before and having to reign them back. So some are speculating DL is publicly saying they plan to hire 500 to cover retirements, but secretly plan to hire more than that.
+1 to this. The official answer as of 3 days ago is (still) only for “attrition”. But there seems to be a wink with that, which indicates there will almost certainly be more, but they are keeping those cards very close to the chest.