TSA is laying off!

[Q200_FO]

about damm time...


http://www.forbes.com/newswire/2003/04/30/rtr957402.html

 

[EagleRJ]

...so each security checkpoint will have to make do with only 260 screeners. I think they should still get the job done!

 

[WrightAvia]

Hehehehehe....Yea, longer lines at airports! Yea! That will bring the airtravel levels back up! Hehehehehe!

 

[Boeingman]

They should be able to do the job with half of them if they would get off their asses lounging in airport chairs and out of the restraunts. Not to mention the enormous waste of time harassing crewmembers and employees.

I had some time to kill in Newark the other day and for 5 lines I counted 73 total TSA people in and about the checkpoint. That included the 1 picking his nose while bringing my shoes through the x ray.

BTW Duane, when are you going to put your foot down and say enough to the bull$hit with crewmembers? The whole situation is ridiculous.

 

[Dep676]

Exactly. Who cares there are way too many of those bone heads anyway.

 

[na265]

We were in STL before the Hollidays after dropping our AC into maint. The flight was CX'd, so we had time to kill. There were TSA people walking all over the term. Talking on cell phones, eating and playing grab-ass. What a huge waste of money!

 

[p.b.]

I read somewhere that the TSA has been tasked to look for impaired flight crews. So if they were in your face before, Look out now!

 

[h25b]

Just a quick reality check... I've heard that there are quite a few furloughed airline pilots working with the TSA trying to keep a paycheck coming in... I personally know a couple. So before we all applaud the cutbacks, keep in mind there will be fellow pilots out of yet another job.

Good luck to everyone...

 

[WrightAvia]

Title 49 of the US Code of Federal Regs

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfrhtml_00/Title_49/49cfrv7_00.html#1500

It's not like the TSA is going away anytime soon. It's in the CFR's. You got as much of a chance of getting the FAR's to go away.

The fact that air traffic isn't brisk enough to bear out the amount of TSA's hired, is another grim reminder of how bad the industry is.

 

[RichardFitzwell]

Thank you...

Just a quick reality check... I've heard that there are quite a few furloughed airline pilots working with the TSA trying to keep a paycheck coming in... I personally know a couple. So before we all applaud the cutbacks, keep in mind there will be fellow pilots out of yet another job.

Good luck to everyone...

Yep...another layoff. This will be my third since Sept. 11th. First CAL, then a 135 operator that closed its doors and now the TSA.

Keep cheering.

 

[h25b]

Sorry to hear of the latest of unfortunate events.

Please accept my best wishes.

 

[jetpilotcrj700]

All I can say is:

I live in a small town that only has 4 flights a day. The TSA has 12-13 agents working on all 4 Flights! This is for an airport that is not equiped to support that many people in the screening area. For only 37 passengers outbound they are triping over each other and it takes them 50 minutes to screen 30 passengers.

 

[Sphincter Boy]

TSA - Thousands Standing Around

 

[CaptWidgeon]

TSA-Taking Scissors Away

 

[EagleRJ]

TSA- Too Stupid for Applebee's

 

[ifly4food]

Or as I prefer, the "Thought Police".

 

[sjflyer]

That is too bad! You can never have enough of a bad I mean a good thing. But don't worry ladies and gentleman, I am sure, that will all their superb qualifications they will be able to find some rent a cop job in a mall near you, in no time.

 

[Snakum]

A true story ...

A small boy, about eight or nine years old, pointed to a TSA agent and said "Hey Dad, that man stole a police uniform. Look!"

The agent was a light-skinned person with visible tattoos showing on both forearms, a row of gold-capped teeth, and was slouching against a rail near the female bag screener - also an agent - who he'd been loudly trying to talk into meeting him after work at a club. A small line of seven or eight people watched helplessly as the female agent (who had stopped the conveyor to look thru a bag) kept interrupting her manual search to turn 180 degrees to reply to various queries from agent number one.

The folks in line kept looking at each other and rolling their eyes.

I thought they got rid of this kind of crap? What gives?

Minh