Old FAA Controller Considering Reinstatement

Hello out there......I've been contacted by the FAA for a possible reinstatement to the agency. I'm considering going through the process, however was wondering if anyone else out there has been through anything similar? Will I go in under the old or new pay scale? Is there any room to negotiate? I haven't been actively controlling traffic for 3 years now. I know there have been MANY changes since then, and was looking for any insight....
Thanks!

You will come in under the new pay scale. The FAA will not negotiate your salary, it's take it or leave it. Good luck with your decision, we need you!

Do you know if location would be negotiable? I put down my preferences, but it seems that my old manager has heard through the grapevine that I'm thinking about coming back and has made a play for me to go there.....which I guess I wouldn't mind, but it definitely wasn't my first choice! IF they offer me somewhere that wasn't on my list of preferences could I counter with somewhere I wanted to go??? I know as a newbie they told us to NEVER to do this, but since times have changed and I was a previously qualified CPC I was just wondering.......

I've known someone that did just that. Just talk to the hub manager where you need to go, explain your situation and I know they can pull a few strings...I've seen it happen before.

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Your friendly neighborhood Lawn Gnome

Has it really become as bad as some of the posts I've seen on here? I know I'm probably opening a can of worms, but without my digging through all the posts can someone give me a "brief" overview of all the changes that have taken place in the past 3 years?

I love my job; however, I work at an overstaffed facility, the ATM and supervisors are great...to be honest, I think it is a few bad apples at various facilities that are abusing the new white book rules. You will be getting many mixed responses, but I can't complain...I know things are going to change for the better, and I am very optimistic about it. I'm eager to be apart of a new change and know positive things are to come.

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Your friendly neighborhood Lawn Gnome

So there are changes in the pipelines so to speak? I know everything is unsettled at the moment, but as long as the general consensus is that things will be getting better then that's definitely good to know.....

I just retired after getting reinstated in 4/2002.....I was not selected off any "list." I wrote a letter to Rick Day who was ASO-500 at the time and he allowed me to be reinstated at STT.

I later transferred to HWD and retired in 12/07.

Don't do it is my advice. Do not go back in there if you have a viable alternative. If you do opt to give it a try just know that its not like it was by any stretch of the imagination. Management is just as disgusting as it ever was....perhaps worse. The controllers are all in it for themselves and are not team players. This is based on the two facilities at which I worked "the second time around."

All I can tell you in closing is CYA. Good luck.

At this point, there is nothing really "in the pipelines". It's merely wishful thinking, and hope that the elections turn out in such a way as to precipitate change.

As for "the general consensus", when things are as bad as they are right now, it's hard to imagine it being worse.

I am absolutely sure that you will enter under the new pay bands.