LRC Blog: You're Better Off 'Working' in a Sewer or Sweatshop

Mike · Jun 27, 2012

LRC Blog: You're Better Off 'Working' in a Sewer or Sweatshop

Becky Akers said:

Last week, the TSA announced that it was seeking “software able to monitor and log a wide range of activities [from its employees], including keystrokes, emails, attachments, screen captures, file transfers, chats, network activities, and website visits.” Today comes an article from Information Week: Government explaining that everyone’s favorite pedophiles are “looking for better ways to guard against insider threats…” The paranoia comes home: not only are all passengers potential terrorists, but all employees are potential Wikileakers.

IWG goes on to note the “interesting bit of timing” for this revelation: “…the White House Office of Special Counsel issued a memo on employee monitoring policies to Executive Branch departments and agencies the same day TSA released its solicitation. The OSC warned agencies against using monitoring as a way of muzzling whistleblowers.” But “OSC spokeswoman Ann O'Hanlon said the timing was purely coincidental.” Heh, heh.

TSA always ranks at the bottom when pollsters investigate “employee satisfaction” among the leeches lording it over us. (No, I don’t know why they conduct these surveys either. Who cares if a sponge is fulfilled and whistling Dixie while he preys on us? Let’s hope they’re all so miserable they quit — HA! Not with the very generous salaries, bennies, and pensions our taxes buy them.) The agency’s deviants also “have some of the worst job turnover of federal workers [sic for ‘bloodsuckers’] despite a $100-million effort to improve salaries and work duties…” Passengers can comfort themselves with the knowledge that even guys digging ditches in the noonday sun are probably happier than the average pervert at the TSA.
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Lisa Simeone · Jun 27, 2012

The OSC warned agencies against using monitoring as a way of muzzling whistleblowers.”
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This is the pot calling the kettle black. This White House has done more to muzzle -- and persecute -- whistleblowers than all other administrations combined.

Lisa Simeone · Jun 27, 2012

And here's that referenced USA Today article, from February 2008:
TSA struggles to reduce persistent turnover
108 comments so far, many of them ridiculing the TSA. And this was four years ago.

And take a look at this:

One in five screeners left between Oct. 1, 2006, and Sept. 30, 2007, federal Office of Personnel Management figures show. The turnover rate was identical the year before. Attrition for the rest of the federal government was 8% in 2006-07.

"Twenty percent (turnover) is pretty high," former Homeland Security Department inspector general Clark Ervin says. "You want people who are as sharp and experienced as possible, and that's why it's a concern."

Screener departures leave airport checkpoints "chronically short-handed," says Rebecca O'Bryan, who last month left her full-time screener job at San Jose International Airport. "You've got these inexperienced people who are really slow using the equipment. It slows everything down."

TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe said the turnover is "manageable" and does not weaken security or slow the screening process because screeners get 180 hours of training when they are hired. "We have such a high training standard before they ever go on the line," she says.
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High training standard! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!

nachtnebel · Jun 27, 2012

Lisa Simeone said: ↑

And here's that referenced USA Today article, from February 2008:
TSA struggles to reduce persistent turnover
108 comments so far, many of them ridiculing the TSA. And this was four years ago.

And take a look at this:
High training standard! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
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examples of required training courses:

1. Staying vertical
2. Handling and displaying passenger underwear for maximum humiliation.
3. Handling passenger sex organs while keeping butt in front of surveillance cameras
4. Dominating passengers for control purposes (taught by drill sargeant from nearby base)
5. How to lie convincingly.
6. Glove-ology 101: Rubber gloves are expensive and need not be changed.
7. Using lack of personal hygiene as a defense strategy.
8. Refresher course on staying vertical.

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