Posted on 11/22/2010 8:41:32 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
"This is going to be a serious problem for the TSA if it doesn't figure out something quick. So far, the TSA seems to be in near absolute denial that this is actually a problem, but if these TSA responses are indicative of how most TSA agents feel, there are going to be a lot fewer security people at airports very, very soon."
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This was posted last week only attributed to Israeli inventors.
Who care where it came from or attributed to, it is effective, funny and WILL solve the problem. I love it.
Keep it going.
WOW!!! Another person belittling what others have gone through. Seems to be a trend here on Freerepublic, sadly.
I’m sorry, wasn’t intending to give you grief for posting. It is just as funny today as it was last week and inspired my son who likes to tinker to think how one could make such a device. Who ever came up with the idea probably used the Israelis as they have had alot of experience with suicide bombers. I like the Russian angle though as they at least have a ‘manly’ leader unlike our metrosexual if not homosexual president.
The inherant problem in filling jobs like this is that the people who want to do the job are exactly the kind of people we don’t want doing the job.
Tell me how one detonates C4 or a flammable fluid remotely without harming innocent people?
It’s technologically absurd.
Hmm.
Tar and feathering is more appropriate. Killing is for cowards.
But at some point we all have to become cowards if this kind of assault continues.
Well, OK THEN. lol
How am I belitting what others have gone through? I realize that people undergiong invasive crap at airports is nothing - NOTHING AT ALL - what Jews went through. NOTHING.
If I have offended any Jews then I apolgize because I have wish nor did I intend to belittle the horrors the Jewish people went through.
What I am saying is that people will keep horrible and evil jobs if they don’t have accurate and functional moral compasses. And that acceptance of increasing humiliation and loss of freedoms bit by bit has terrible precedent.
Who is checking the TSA screeners before work, and after breaks? Bathrooms do not have camera’s in them...privacy clause stuff. They are checking flight attendents and pilots...why are TSA screeners not having the same treatment?
Damn, I sound like a 60's leftist .... talk about ironic
Your math is off .... that's 4/2200 or 0.18% of the population. Double check it and you'll see it.
This is not a good scene.
BTW, they may have been ahead with 200 to 300 people looking for them since a crowd that big would probably draw the attention of the police.
Sometime in the past 6 months, I was patted down. I think the ‘reason’ was because I kept setting off the alarm - never did figure out why.
There was no crotch or boob grabbing - just sliding palms up and down arms and legs. I don’t think the woman doing it enjoyed it any more than I did. So I would assume that yeah, the non perv TSA people don’t like it either.
You don’t get on until we get off!
LOL!
“No one is forcing TSA agents to violate the privacy and dignity of their fellow citizens - they can always find another job. Granted, many are former hourly workers who might prefer the job security and guaranteed pension the TSA can provide but hopefully some will refuse to do this job.”
TSO’s don’t have job security. It’s a really crappy job that is just enough to pay the bills. Not even 15 bucks an hour at most places. You don’t get full-time status for at least a year.You don’t get the pension till you’ve been full-time several years and get “vested”. The pension is based on the wages you were paid as a TSO, which are crap.
They have to re-test on the scanner test every 3 months, and if you fail, once, you’re gone, fired, kaput. The scanner test is very strange (I actually took the test for the job last year). The supervisors are constantly looking to fire everyone that isn’t a total suck-up. They can get rid of pretty much whoever they want up until the worker gets full-time status, which they do their level best to prevent from happening.
The background check for TSA is actually tighter than the ones I’ve taken for law enforcement jobs. It’s REALLY intrusive. They asked for my 80+ year old mother’s citizenship certificate number from when she became a citizen back in the 1950s, among other things. I’m still technically on the applicant roster, but it looks like I have another job now, so I am not pursuing the TSA thing. The whole process of applying to work there is a gigantic pain in the behind, and takes months. I tested in Jan of 2010, and didn’t even hear from them about an actual position till June.
The process:
Sign up for the test
They email you where and when to take the test (you need 2 government ID’s, etc)
Take the weird test. You get your results amazingly quickly (emailed to you within 8hrs of completion of test)
Wait wait wait....
They send you the info to start filling out the credit part of the background, consents, etc.
If you pass the credit part, they set you up with an online account to fill out the personal and criminal background.. it’s about 50 pages long.
Fill that out.. wait wait wait some more
You get an email that you’re in the “applicant pool” for the airport where you applied to work.
Wait wait wait (months)
You get a call for the “airport exam” where they test if you can lift 50lb or more repeatedly, color vision test, etc)
They also send you for a medical at that time.
THEN you wait for an actual spot to be open and maybe you get a job that pays $15 an hour, and you work part-time, with only part-time benefits, etc. You work split shifts, 2-4hrs here and there, and so on, as needed, and if you can’t work whenever they ask, you can be fired.
Working for the TSA sucks bad. I actually feel sorry for the line workers because they’re just guys doing a crummy job that get public abuse a LOT. It isn’t just the guys at the gate, there are also the ones who have to go searching through luggage back there behind the airline counter wall. They have to search through people’s dirty nasty underwear and sex toys and whatever else is in the suitcases.
I DON’T have any sympathy for their bosses, though. Those are the guys that make up the policies and crap that we all abuse the worker schmucks for. And at the same time, those bosses abuse those very same worker schmucks. Really, all of this pat-down crap comes from the Powers That Be in DC.
It’s a lot like blaming the local PD for the laws written in the state capital.
Of course, this post is probably the last thing that people on here want to hear, too.
No one is forcing TSA agents to violate the privacy and dignity of their fellow citizens - they can always find another job.
Uhhh no, not as easy as you think.
Fair enough ... but yeah 20-30 murderous enemies / year for a 15 dollar an hour job ... not cost effective AT ALL.
Thank you Centurion2000. That’s at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2631295/posts?page=79#79
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