Posted on 01/09/2019 2:53:56 PM PST by detective
Transportation Security Agency officers forced to work without knowing when their next paycheck is coming are no longer just calling in sick. Now, 18 days into the partial government shutdown, some are resigning, according to Hydrick Thomas, who heads the TSA Council on the American Federation of Government Employees.
“Every day I’m getting calls from my members about their extreme financial hardships and need for a paycheck. Some of them have already quit and many are considering quitting the federal workforce because of this shutdown,” the official said in a statement posted to the union's website on Tuesday. He did not specify how many had quit.
As essential employees, the country's approximately 50,000 TSA officers must remain on the job despite the shutdown.
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If I can’t drive there, I don’t go there.
There’s gotta be TONS of folks who feel the same.
One would think the airlines would’ve clued in on that fact and pressured the feds to shitcan TSA long ago .. proving that ineptitude isn’t limited to goobermint trough feeders.
Oh B.S. Where would they go to work when their only qualifications are yelling at customers.
No, they didn't prevent disasters. They let them board. It was alert passengers who prevented those disasters.
On the other hand, they do have a great record of confiscating shampoo in containers too large and my daughters favorite pen knife about the length of a nail clipper which she used to do her nails.
So, yeah, they are great at enforcing picayune and arcane rules. Stopping terrorists? Not so much.
Government workers are democrats. They have pensions. If they quit, great. Let them squirm. Republicans want wall. We voted for it. Even democrats want it. Unions want it. Its just government vs. everyone else. Even my Mexican friends want the wall, they think bad people and drugs go back and forth.
WINNING!!!!!
No big deal here, …… let them find out how the real world is.
delayed payment … without interest. /s
they are angry non essentials may be home 3 + weeks and will be paid all the same.
Send them all to clean up the National parks. (repatriate the dangerous moslems and keep them out ). Problems solved.
Yeah? You lazy bums want to work someplace else, without all the perks and benefits?
I know of a lady who got her TSA screener job through connections to a local Congress critter’s staff member. This woman had no higher education, or even solid work experience. A few months in, guess what? She had to go on disability because of the proverbial “back injury on the job” (well calculated how to pull this off before beginning work). Now she’s eatin’ bon bons and watching Jerry Springer all day. What a life (at the taxpayers’ expense, of course). Contract it out — and get qualified people.
Great idea! They might actually have to work for a living!
When I went through and got the TSA PreCheck, I don’t recall being told (but may have missed it) that NOT every airport has TSA PreCheck.
I found that out last year when I was flying from Asheville, NC and my bag got pulled. I asked why, since I have PreCheck, and was told that the Asheville airport isn’t a PreCheck airport.
In New Mexico, the airports in Santa Fe and Albuquerque (and El Paso, TX) are the only PreCheck airports.
If you were in a PreCheck airport, then as far as I can tell, you got picked out on a whim. And there’s not a lot you can do about it, unfortunately.
I have a laptop case that is a “butterfly” case, designed so that you don’t have to remove your laptop from the case. I did have to take my laptop out once though, because the TSA person didn’t know (or maybe care) about the rules. Again, the easiest thing to do is just comply, when you really want to make your flight.
“Another one of W’s fusterclucks .. there were plenty of agencies and resources in situ without piling on the Orwellian DHS & TSA.”
It wasn’t about making us safe it was about making us subservient.
Seriously, if anything is missing or even slightly damaged, go to the TSA website and put in a claim. I've had similar experiences with these Jay-Birds, including a checked bag which seems to get pulled for further checking about 60% of the time.
It has a leopard skin design (printed on cheap fabric, not real) . . . so what? I like it because it is easy to spot on an airport baggage carousel as opposed to a non-descript black bag.
Wonder if they take guys in their 60s? Looks like they make 35-40 grand a year to do menial labor.
My wife suffers through that as well even if she is a matronly looking harmless grandma type. On one occasion, the TSA agent actually apologized and told her that had to show records that they got people like her so they could defend themselves against possible profiling. I kid you not.
BTW, you should have kept your pepper spray.
If a TSA employee wants to quit now its okay with me as long as there is a ZERO chance of them being rehired as a Federal employee at any level in the future.
Didn’t Reagan do something like that during the air traffic controllers strike in the early 1980s?
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