When I Grow up I Want to Be a TSA Agent
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It sure sounds easy. Where else can I slack off to the tune of a 97% failure rate?
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You could be a weatherman/weatherwoman.
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Congress?
...in New England.
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bonus: local fame.
is it weird that my ideal job is to work in an airport though?
You do realize that you’re knocking a unionized workforce right? Hamilton is going to beat your ass.
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They were unionized under Bush. This is because everyone realized that unless they were unionized and had decent benefits, TSA would be rummaging everyone’s luggage and removing everything of value.
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Nope that wasn’t why. It was unionized because the Democrats in Congress and the NTEU and AFGE were fighting tooth and nail to organize them. ICE/CBP were already so TSA was expected.
I wouldn’t deny that there were other interested actors who wanted to see the newly-created TSA organized, including relevant unions. What I’m recalling were some of the public and media explanations at the time that held that low-wage and non-unionized TSA agents would be far too tempted to steal.
As a local with an eagle eye on these issues I recall every breath on this particular argument. The TSA was originally intended to make theft less likely by paying more and professionalizing the task. But then when you shove massive amounts of people down a narrow pipe, well quality goes out the window.
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Probably the reason for the high turnover. It is a useless, thankless job that doesn’t need to exist. Realistically, all they need is gunpowder and explosives sniffing dogs. Nobody will let a plane be taken over via brute force as they now know the consequences.
Hey! I have a useless thankless job that doesn’t need to exist!
Though really, they could replace me with a slightly modified redbox machine... Though I guess a redbox couldn't teach idiots how to turn on the keurig or use the hot side of the water cooler.
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It’s the perfect for lazy perverts that want to legally look at blurry naked images, casually touch people’s junk, and try a variety of different liquids people have to throw away.
If this sounds like your teenager perhaps encourage them to go down this path. For the greater good, of course.
The naked images are gone now. I think they were going to relocate those machines to security for various federal buildings though, so if you look around for a job, you should at least be able to see naked civil servants (The machines they use now could in theory produce naked images as well, but aren’t ever supposed to, they just display a computer generated diagram of suspicious areas on the body).
In fairness, I think the average TSA worker ends up as revolted as the passenger does by the end of the pat down. Those poor souls who have to work at the Delta hub in Atlanta...
