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Monday, 30 June 2003
TSA employees ::
TSA Under Pressure To Stop Baggage Theft (via Boing Boing). This reminded me...
I flew through Detroit’s new terminal last winter, and had a meal in a place near the security checkpoint. Several TSA employees arrived, apparently taking a break. I was curious. Where did these people come from? What kind of experience qualified someone for this highly important job, making us take off our shoes to protect the safety of the skies? I eavesdropped on their conversation, and all was revealed. One young man’s previous place of employment was McDonald’s.
Mon, 30 Jun 2003, 07:29 PDT
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4 comments
I once worked for the TSA. They are a joke. They are a bunch of hotheads.....that could never be cops, so the best they could do was airport security. I only took the job because it was the only thing I could get after 9/11, that paid more than minimum wage. The only backround I had was in retail at Nordstrom. They put me through about 7 days of training, and then threw me in there.
– Anonymous, Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 22:33 PST
You were probably one of the many that couldn’t cut it at TSA! Go back to retail!!!! Was the training to hard for your retail high and mighty intellect? If you needed more than 7 days of training you really are an idiot that needs to continue selling clothes.
– One of many proud employees, Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 21:03 PDT
I worked for the TSA in Minneapolis/St. Paul for 2 and a half years. Most of the screeners there were dedicated to doing the best job they could. The problem was with management and the relationship to the airlines. Whatever the airlines wanted, they got - regardless if it jeopardized security. And the managers? We had far too many for the number of screeners and they were all ex-airline employees. See a conflict of interest here?
– Luke, Friday, 14 October 2005, 06:53 PDT
Proud Employee:
Calling someone an “idiot” for quitting this job is “hotheaded” as previously described by the person you are attacking. It also sheds light on what a “proud employee” of TSA is often like. I am quitting as well and it has nothing to do with not “cutting it”. I “cut it” just fine in the military and everywhere else I’ve been. I only took this job in response to 9/11, trying to do my part in securing our nation. I’ve managed to “cut it” fine with TSA. However, I can’t take any more of the stupidity that I endure in going to work every day. Unfortunately, TSA is an enormous disaster. TSA was supposed to branch out into the railways, ports, bus terminals, etc. but that has not happened. Why? Because they have dropped the ball at every opportunity. They failed from the get-go in hiring inadequate management. They continued to fail by keeping lazy, unambitious people on their workforce. These type of employees invariably run off the good ones.
Therefore, both Congress and the general public distrust and loathe the TSA.
If you think your job at TSA is superior to “selling clothes”, think again. You are probably the type of person that makes going to work at TSA unbearable.
By the way, if you are going to call someone an “idiot” try avoiding typos like “to hard” instead of “too hard”. That in itself tells me you may be well-suited for TSA.
– Danny, Thursday, 2 February 2006, 23:41 PST
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