Posted on 08/14/2019 8:33:53 AM PDT by BigKahuna
In March 2019, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general found that the Transportation Security Administration was taking far too long to hire its security screeners. On average, TSA takes 252 days to hire screeners, who are frontline employees vital to the agency's mission. In private industry, it usually only takes from a few days to four months to hire a new employee, according to the Workable human resources website.
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Given the role played by its security screeners it's, of course, essential that TSA work toward hiring only the most capable, most qualified candidates. However, by any reasonable standard, taking more than eight months to bring on a new TSO is unacceptable.
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When it comes to TSA's hiring practices, the IG found that the security agency fails to adequately evaluate applicants for their capabilities as well as their compatibility. In short, is a TSO candidate capable of handling the job and will he or she "get along" in the agency after hiring?
The IG report went on to state that TSA also "may be making uninformed hiring decisions," which should be worrying to everyone. As noted in the document, TSA is also making poor hiring decisions. Such steps are being driven in part by inadequate applicant information and a lack of formally documented guidance on ranking potential new hires. The inspector general found that, as a result, TSA wasn't always selecting the most highly qualified individuals as TSOs.
What the above means is it appears, rightly or wrongly, that TSA is often winging it when it comes to initial applicant screening, interviewing, and then hiring. No wonder, then, that issues with training and retention seem so commonplace at the agency.
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The kid. Didn’t you ever see Airplane!
Give the TSA a break... It can take a longer time than they anticipated for their top candidate to get out on parole...
Yep.
They are expressly trained not to profile people.
Usually I get a weird look and then a grin. As if anyone would enjoy patting down a cranky, obese, sweaty man...
It takes several elimination rounds to get to the lowest common denominator.
Come to think of it, I frequently get PreCheck status these days. I guess they got tired of the joke...
And THAT is precisely the problem. Stuff doesn’t cause unsafe incidents, people do. We wouldn’t let someone bring a can of gas and matches on an airplane (which common sense has been extrapolated into a much longer list), but we are A-OK with a person on a Jihadi mission.
My friends son just got flunked out of the TSA training. He couldn’t pass the “Pat-down” test. They said they have a 80% failure rate or some ridiculously high failure rate.
I guess some folks just aren’t comfortable touching other people just trying to travel from point A to point B especially when they don’t fit he known, but can’t be used, profile
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! I will have to try that. I get PreCheck off and on, but I can’t tell if there is a pattern to it. I ALWAYS seem to get it with international flights, but those are a tiny fraction of my trips.
The Israelis of course, to good success, agree with you.
As a last line of defense, a pretty young uniformed officer will rove around the boarding gates requesting permission to wand you. One of my business colleagues there told me that hardly anyone ever gives them lip but they are trained in martial arts just in case.
Ha—interesting.
In ORD, I refused the naked scan and this pissed off the screener.
I got pulled aside for a detailed pat-down. As the TSA guy he was doing his grope thing I asked him what he told young ladies he meets in a bar when they ask what he does for a living.
He was down around my crotch and he glanced up at me. . .I asked him does he tell the truth (grope old men and molest kids), or does he admit to something more respectable, like handing out towels at a San Francisco bath-house.
Boy was he angry. . .
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