Right-thinking individuals already knew this. It’s not in any form news of an actual kind.
The article, here from the New York Post, does — however — affirm what we already knew about the TSA: it’s all “style” (and I utilize that word so rather loosely) over substance because the TSA is completely style and class-less.
Salient snippets include:
A LOT of what we do is make-believe.
But since most TSA supervisors are too daft to actually supervise, bending the rules is easy to do.
[I like this guy already; I enjoy utilizing the word “daft” as well. -BZ]
Did you know you don’t need a high-school diploma or GED to work as a security screener? These are the same screeners that TSA chief John Pistole and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refer to as a first-class first line of defense in the war on terror.
These are the employees who could never keep a job in the private sector. I wouldn’t trust them to walk my dog.
Most TSA screeners know their job is a complete joke. Their goal is to use this as a stepping stone to another government agency.
We work in a culture where common sense has no place. All but a very few TSA personnel know they’re employed by a bottom-of-the-barrel agency.
Every time you read about a TSA horror story, it’s usually about a screener doing what he or she is instructed to do.
Supervisors play absolutely no role in day-to-day functions except to tell you not to chew gum. Gum chewing is a huge issue with management. I once saw a supervisor make an officer open his mouth to prove he had a mint and not a piece of gum.
One screener didn’t come to work for four weeks. When he finally reappeared, he asked for another week off. The answer was no. So what did this brainiac decide to do? He took another week off — and didn’t get terminated.
People have been caught falling asleep on the job. They get written up, it’s put in their file, and that’s it.
New hires see how bad it is working there, and, believe it or not, TSA does manage to hire some pretty decent people. They just don’t last because they can get a normal job.
Best line of the entire article?
Anyone boarding an aircraft should feel maybe only a teeny tiny bit safer than if there were no TSA at all.
There! Now, ladies and gentlemen, don’t you feel absolutely buoyed by the incredibly diligent, pertinent, logical and safe application of the TSA authorities as applied to the screening of American citizens on aircraft throughout the United States?
Anyone need a colonoscopy? I know where you can get them, cheap.
Muslims, al Qaeda, Pakistanis, young Middle Eastern men with a terrorist history need not apply.
BZ
P.S.
— TSA scanner fraud here.
— The TSA itself is a fraud.
— General TSA fraud.
— TSA incompetence on video.
— Searching grandma; finding nothing.
The list is endless.
