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TSA agents are working without pay at US airports due to another shutdown

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TSA agents are working without pay at US airports due to another shutdown - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Feb 16 at 1:50amWeb
Show threadbetterdeadthanredditFeb 16

“Working” is a stretch. They’re the Wal-Mart door greeters of air travel. If a TSA agent stands next to a janitor, they’ll briefly be useful-adjacent and that’s the closest they can get to providing a valuable service without violating the terms of their employment.

Shut down the TSA. Skip the extra steps and go straight to UBI.

Show threadFuglyDuckFeb 16
That’s pretty savage. I don’t know any Walmart greeters that routinely grope people.
Show threadViking_HippieFeb 16
“Welcome to Costco, I love you”
Show threadFuglyDuckFeb 16

Some of the Costco greeters I know are… interesting… people.

Interesting in the “quite odd, but still pretty decent people.”

It’s the samples people I’m worried about. Especially if you go back for seconds.

Show threadCentipedeFarrierFeb 16

I hope it lasts a long time and they all quit and nobody wants to work there anymore and we have to rethink having so much airport security. Not like they do anything useful anyway.

I know I know, wishful thinking.

Show threadpartial_accumenFeb 16
Before the TSA existed (pre-911) airport security was run and paid for by the airlines.
Show threadorclevFeb 16
And it was relatively pleasant. Walk through a metal detector, have your carry on x-rayed and you’re good to go. Whole thing would only take a couple minutes once you made it to the front of the line and most of that was just waiting for the tray to go through the little x-ray conveyor belt. Even the people running the machines were relatively pleasant, not the surly assholes looking for an excuse to power trip on somebody that are all running things now.
Show threadPhoenixzFeb 16

This is why I’m not too worried about Hitler wannabe. I know the Nazi’s were also a bunch of infighting idiotd, but can you imagine Hitler not paying the browshirts and making them work for free and it all working out?

These idiots will eat eachother before ethe year is over

Show threadSpaceCowboyFeb 17
You’re not worried because other people are resisting them for you?
Show threadPhoenixzFeb 25

No

I’m saying that they’re so stupid that they’ll never get any real success. They will fuck themselves up before we can

Show threadSpaceCowboyFeb 25
Evil triumphs when good people do nothing.
Show threadTrackinDaKrakenFeb 17
I’m not worried about a few government workers getting delayed paychecks.