TSA Workers Are Now Quitting Because of the Government Shutdown, Union Says

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[Trailerpark Badass]

Oh no, not the Big Blue Shirts?! How will we manage?!

[blueplum]

if they’re in-between pay cycles (which they are until tomorrow) how on earth is anyone experiencing ‘extreme financial hardship’?

shouldn’t they hold that tear-jerker for another week at least?

and perhaps the union could tell us how many of those who are quitting found jobs with better hours closer to home in a now-bustling job market?

[cornfedcowboy]

This is a joke. They haven’t even missed a paycheck yet. It will be more costly for them to quit and have unpaid time off to find work.
Seriously, when has there ever been the slightest movement of federal employees leaving their jobs. Never happens. Not now either.

[beethovenfan]

Who will miss them?

[beethovenfan]

TSA = Thousands Standing Around

[cornfedcowboy]

Union says. Word is going out make travelers lives as miserable as possible.

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They are absolute idiots if true. There will be a revolt among air passengers if the lines start getting long because of a slow down.

[SmokingJoe]

says some TSA employees have resigned,

Exactly how many?
Five?
Bummer! We are screwed. How are we ever going to manage without these people?
Now we are going to have to send people to university for four years to train them on how to legally grope little girls and old ladies, and on how to be rude and arrogant.

[wjcsux]

My bank has a huge banner on their website with a toll-free number to call if you are affected by the government shutdown. They stated that they will work with their customers who are affected. I don’t see an issue.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Without the TSA, who are they gonna get to feel up 13-year old girls?

[HamiltonJay]

Yes, well paid, full benefits for a low skill job, but they are running away in droves when they haven’t even missed a check yet...

Please

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Have they found new employment where they get to ransack and loot travelers luggage?

[hinckley buzzard]

I hope any of them who quit will get a “do not rehire” note in their personnel file. This is a historic opportunity to rectify one of Bush41’s miserable mistakes. In order to get rat approval for the DHS, Bush agreed to have all security at airports become federal employees. Prior to that they were private contractors, and they did a fine job; but the rats could not resist the opportunity to suck up a small private sector into the maw of the government, and Bush went along with it.

Now, after all the BS is over, Trump should just reallocate the security function back to the private sector and get the gov out of one more sensitive area.

[hinckley buzzard]

I have done a fair bit of flying, and I have never had a TSA agent who was not courteous and efficient. This should not be an ad hominem issue.

I do believe that when there is no good reason for the government to absorb a function which the private sector can do as well or better, then the gov should get out of the way. That is the conservative view point, not personal attacks.

[hinckley buzzard]

No. TSA was formed as a reaction to 9/11, and the blame-shifting tactic of the rats to blame civilian security people for 9/11 when they did nothing wrong. The FBI had nothing to do with it either way. You might want to study the history of the times.

[trebb]

Too funny - today is the first check being missed yet so many have suffered terribly so far.....

[Slings and Arrows]

I’m honored.

[cowboyusa]

One of the only beefs I have with PT is that he didn’t abolish the tsa.

[faithhopecharity]

Agreed!