Posted on 01/17/2007 5:49:57 AM PST by theothercheek
More than 3,600 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) or Homeland Security Department airport security uniforms and badges have been lost or stolen over the past five years, The Washington Times reports.
Most of the items are thought to have been lost or misplaced, according to TSA spokesperson Amy Kudwa. The TSA requires employees to report a missing badge or uniform to a supervisor, who is then to notify local law enforcement – but only if the item is believed to have been stolen.
Kudwa tells the paper that missing uniforms and badges cannot be used by terrorists to gain access to airplanes and restricted areas of airports, because TSA screeners work in teams and an imposter would be spotted immediately. (The Stiletto wonders whether a team of terrorists wearing uniforms and badges vouching for each other would be identifiable as infiltrators.)
The TSA just established a pay-for-performance program, PASS (Performance Accountability and Standards System), that it describes as “a key element in the long term professional development of the Transportation Security Officer.”
According to the agency’s Web site, “PASS has three ratings that reward our Security Officers for exceptional work”:
† Achieves Standards – TSO hit a high standard and merits a $1,000 bonus.
† Exceeds Standards – TSO excelled. Merits a $2,000 bonus and a 3% pay raise.
† Role Model of Excellence – Awarded to approximately 3% of the workforce. Merits a bonus of $3,000 and a 5% pay raise.
The Stiletto suggests adding a fourth rating:
† Earns Paycheck – TSO is just alert, conscientious and competent enough to know where his uniform and credentials are at all times so that his employers – the taxpaying public – have confidence that the TSO is alert, conscientious and competent enough to spot terrorists. Merits continued employment.
Darn! I forgot to add that the original source includes links to relevant articles and Web sites. One day I will take the time to learn how to imbed these links myself...
THAT'S STEENKING BADGES, DUDE!........
4 seconds. lol.
Mine had a caption...pfffft!.......
2:16 for the first photo... is that good?
<A HREF="put the link URL here">Put a descriptive title here</A>
For instance:
<A HREF="http://www.devx.com/projectcool/Article/19816">HTML Tag Quick Reference Guide</A>
Ends up looking like this:
Thanks, I feel safer now.
LOL
OMG! Thank you so much! My posts will be so much better now.
Yup.
Embedded images (not too large for the bandwidth challenged) are just as easy.
<IMG SRC="image link here">
<IMG SRC="http://www.flightglobal.com/assets/getAsset.aspx?ItemID=16126">
gets you:
And you can combine a source link with an image, instead of using a descriptive title.
<A HREF="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1768660/posts"><IMG SRC="http://www.flightglobal.com/assets/getAsset.aspx?ItemID=16126">
Gets you this:
Where you click the image (notice the border around it) to take you to the link.
They made these people FEDERAL employees, and you DID NOT expect things to be screwed up???
PC runs so badly at TSA, that they almost cannot do the job they were created to.
TSA
Totally Screwed Agency
These guys are enough to make one long for the days of Argenbright...
ROTFLOL! Outstanding.
On the flip side, you'd have to pay me $60k/annum with bennies and let me be armed before I'd take that job. What an incredible bore!
I will say that the team at the Monroe, Louisiana airport was as professional as I've ever seen. Courteous, efficient, polite. I was impressed and told them so.
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