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My idea on how to get TSA employees back to work: Tip them $1 per passenger
Freerepublic.com ^ | March 21, 2026 | Texas Eagle

Posted on 03/21/2026 7:29:36 AM PDT by Texas Eagle

Mrs. Eagle and I have been on 3 cruises. Every passrnger tips the baggage handlers $1 per bag. There is no shortage of baggage handlers and they are quick and friendly. Watch how fast TSA employees return to work once they hear their fellow employees are making hundreds of dollars per hour. It's been 20 years since we've been on a cruise so people may tip more than that now.

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Commence flaming.
1 posted on 03/21/2026 7:29:36 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Texas Eagle

When this is all settled, aren’t they going to get retro pay? I think they did the last time.


2 posted on 03/21/2026 7:31:10 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (AOC for President, 2028. And don't forget to detoxify your liver.)
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To: Texas Eagle

No, tipping security personnel is bribery.


3 posted on 03/21/2026 7:32:19 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Texas Eagle

between that and overtime…


4 posted on 03/21/2026 7:32:21 AM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: Texas Eagle

Leave them at home and re-instate rules before this union crappola was created as a make work project.

TSA still fails most every Fed test on stopping bombs. It is security theater


5 posted on 03/21/2026 7:32:34 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: Fai Mao

Perhaps we’re dealing with an amount issue.

Below a value, get reported for bribery ($1).

Some higher value, don’t get reported for bribery.


6 posted on 03/21/2026 7:35:18 AM PDT by C210N
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To: Hot Tabasco

Yes. But they have bills to pay. Plus, I’m just trying to shorten the lines. That seems to be the main focus of news reports.


7 posted on 03/21/2026 7:35:54 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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That might not work. I was on a groggy, very early morning flight after a red eye. I inadvertently pulled my credit card out instead of my license ID and handed it to the TSA clearance agent before going through security.

Yup. All hands on deck pat down and colonoscopy.

I tried to explain it just a mistake due to fatigue. Nope.

Handing the TSA a buck or two could be hazardous.

8 posted on 03/21/2026 7:36:32 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Texas Eagle

Put congressional Democrats, their families, their employees and their employees families on the DO NOT FLY LIST!


9 posted on 03/21/2026 7:36:39 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec)
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To: Fai Mao

Bribery!!!!! Ha haaaaaas! Omygosh! I expected to hear some stupid things but that one wins the thread already.


10 posted on 03/21/2026 7:37:57 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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They aren’t on strike, and many of them are at work, they’re not getting paid because the parties are being idiots again and fighting over stupid crap and using TSA as the weapon. But they’re AT work.


11 posted on 03/21/2026 7:38:18 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Retro pay a month from now doesn’t help you buy groceries today.


12 posted on 03/21/2026 7:38:48 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu
They aren’t on strike, and many of them are at work, they’re not getting paid because the parties are being idiots again and fighting over stupid crap and using TSA as the weapon. But they’re AT work.

If they can, call out sick is the appropriate tactic here.

13 posted on 03/21/2026 7:39:33 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: OpusatFR

Yeah. Sure, Jan.🙄


14 posted on 03/21/2026 7:41:00 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Texas Eagle

Most are democrats. And most are happy not to work. They always get more money when its over. If they work for a delayed paycheck its always larger. If they don’t work they still get paid. Its a win win unless they are at the end of their rope financially. But they always have plenty of warning.


15 posted on 03/21/2026 7:41:01 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Texas Eagle

U R very smart.


16 posted on 03/21/2026 7:42:00 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Texas Eagle

How about the airlines pay? its to support their businesses after all.


17 posted on 03/21/2026 7:43:05 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: Texas Eagle

Congress needs to pass a law that requires the managing port authority pay the TSA employees and the feds reimburse the Port.

Of course thats only if one thinks that the federal government should provide this service, which I don’t.


18 posted on 03/21/2026 7:44:35 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: MinorityRepublican

No. That might work if it was their actual bosses doing the stupid stuff. But it’s the Senate. 8 layers of government BS removed. If there’s a mass “sick out” that just give the Senate more to yell “it’s your fault” “no it’s your fault”. TSA is just stuck in the middle, that song didn’t used to be political but it sure is now.


19 posted on 03/21/2026 7:44:38 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Texas Eagle

Really ? you must be new


20 posted on 03/21/2026 7:45:45 AM PDT by al baby
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