TSA says officers must stand, chairs banned at airport checkpoints nationwide

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• nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Spoken by someone who sits on their ass in a chair all day.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyone who thinks standing makes you more alert than sitting has never held a job that requires more than 5 minutes of standing still at once…

  Or even looked at someone who has to stand still as part of their job duties.

  You may look alert, but a huge chunk of your brain is devoted to how much it sucks to have to be standing.

  Like, I’ve been a part of government security theater and we had to stand. But we just had metal detector wands, the little room with the one way mirrors next to us had half a dozen dudes with AR15s and body armor, they got chairs because they were the ones that had to be ready.

  My only job if anything happened was to fall down so I wouldn’t be hit when the guys on the other side of the glass opened fire.

  We were just the bait/distraction

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  • myyass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We must take it a step further, everyone must shit standing up.

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    • Unsealed9041@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Trump does it, don’t you want to make America great again?

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  TSA should be abolished.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every time it comes up I have to remind people TSA has never caught a terrorist. Some were caught before getting to TSA, or after passing the TSA screening, but never by TSA itself.

    Some say we need security screening at airports. Yes! We had it before TSA. Usually run by the airport itself; An x-ray for bags, and a metal detector for people. It’ wasn’t limited to people with tickets, everyone could go through. It was basically just a gun check. Much faster and less invasive than what TSA does. And this is the important part: It was at least as effective at catching terrorists!

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    • cloudshouter@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The most effective check on airplane nonsense aside from the simple X-ray/metal detector for guns are the passengers. Back when hijackings were in fashion and again today it’s not the TSA strip searching kids and wiping down grandmas for bomb residue. It’s the agreement between a bunch of strangers that if someone acts a fool they get their teeth kicked in and duck taped to a chair.

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  • meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “MetaCops aren’t allowed to lean against their Unit—makes them look lazy and weak. They can almost lean, look like they’re leaning, they can even brandish a big leaning-against-the-car 'tude like this particular individual, but they can’t lean.”

    Snow Crash

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    • vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mark Zuckerbergs favorite book, guy must have absolutely dogshit reading comprehension

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    • FunStuffIsFun@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Been meaning to read that book.

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• riskable@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Trump administration ruins yet another chairished tradition.

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• Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Management and old people think if you got time to lean you got time to clean. Some take it as a personal insult that you would dare take a load off while checking out customers at a register or looking something up at a computer.

  Stools (at minimum) should be provided at all workstations.

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• ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And when the travelers could be inconvenienced no further, the only thing left was to torture their own agents.

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• Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As someone with back problems, I’ve never understood the insistence on everyone standing. Check out people, this kind of stuff, fucking everywhere. This is also why cruelty is the point.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every grocery store in my area has their cashier’s standing up, except Aldi, they have chairs for their cashier’s.

    And of course their service is awful! JK, it’s perfectly fine! Publix cashiers aren’t any better because they can stand. It’s not like they have to run around or anything. They’re stuck in the same spot for hours at a time. Why can’t they sit? I wouldn’t even notice if they didn’t have legs. Who cares? Let them sit.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Suffering is a virtue in the good ol’ US of A.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Trying to get rid of them and increase turnover by making the job uncomfortable? Drive older ones off the payroll to cut costs?

  I’m sure making people uncomfortable will do wonders for their ability to pay attention to their job.

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• spacegoat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some political appointee or SES with a micropenis got upset that the TSA officer didn’t stand and salute while checking their ID

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  • tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you know someone in SES is the equivalent of a flag officer? If you forget, don’t worry. They’ll remind you.

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• crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Terrible idea for a jobs program to begin with. Security theatre, always has been. Just do away with the whole thing and go back to regular old metal detectors, it’s proven more effective and far more affordable ($40T debt and rising thanks to no tax only spend repugnantcon policy).

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• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lol make Orange Mussolini stand all day until his joints swell up to the size of basketballs, because he falls asleep when sitting

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• core@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can’t wait for the disability lawsuits

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cool. Let them suffer.

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  • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These people have the power to make everyone around them suffer. Do NOT make their job less pleasant!

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• vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  fuck the Trans Sexual Assaulters

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  • kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hi, it sounds like in an attempt to disparage the TSA you’re awkwardly trying to use trans and an outdated term for trans people that is now borderline at best as an insult.

    Yeah don’t do that.

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  • pega_sus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Provision L3

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• frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You'll need to give them something to stand on and they'll need way more breaks than if they were sitting. The only way I see this working is if the ID checkers and carry on bin people rotate around so no one is standing at a booth for hours at a time.

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  • Perky@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have you considered that instead of giving them more breaks, we could simply wait until they develop back problems, fire them, and hire some new losers desperate for literally any job?

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    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, use them up and then hire younger people. That’s how they do in my industry.

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• Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Another stupid fucking thing from these stupid fucking people. I’m so over it. I’ve worked a job where I was on my feet all day. That shit sucked. Like can I get a chair for when it’s slow? What?! If ya got time to lean you got time to clean. Fuck off.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One week sitting is good for you, the next week it ain’t, depending on feelz of the bosses.

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  • 5318008@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s crazy how bad most people are at thinking of rules that aren’t 100% of something.

    “Always sitting” is a bad rule. “Always standing” is a bad rule. But authoritarians can’t seem to accept any rule that allows choice, nuance, or moderation.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Ain’t nobody ever caught a perp sittin’ down.”

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• CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All the TSA agents except the one running the Xray screening are usually standing already

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  • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not at PDX

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