Posted on 07/25/2006 9:40:05 AM PDT by Sarajevo
DENVER -- You could be on a secret government database or watch list for simply taking a picture on an airplane. Some federal air marshals say they're reporting your actions to meet a quota, even though some top officials deny it.
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A quota? To catch Terrorists??
I call BS!
Note to self: find job that doesn't involve travel.
old British farming saying " you don't fatten pigs by weighing them".
A government mandate drives quotas?! Impossible!
I did a search and came up empty.
Hey, nobody can accuse this government of being 'disproportionate' in our response to security. Everyone is presumed guilty!< /sarc>
The fact that using exxagerated reports to inflate the metric messes with the proles' lives is irrelevant- the boss has shown what type of bean he's collecting, so everyone comes to the meeting with lots of beans.
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This is one of the things I have always hated about working for big companies, management types looking at numbers and pretending they mean something when any fool can see that they don't. We have that situation where I work now, bosses demanding a certain number of "movements" while steadfastly refusing to see that one of those movements may involve eight or more manhours of work while another one may only involve ten minutes of work. It is just too much trouble to deal with reality, it is so much easier to look at numbers and ignore the real world.
Back in the seventies I worked for a district manager who sent out a memo threatening to fire people based on a certain number on a report. When I pointed out that the number was totally meaningless, in fact WORSE than meaningless if that is possible he then came up with some BS about how his memo didn't mean what we all took it to mean. He just could not admit that he had failed to see the problem with the number. This was a number that was so useless that the person who designed the report should have been fired for even including it in the report.
That's a scary looking terrorist there. Better confiscate his G.I. Joe's M16 just in case.
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