Some political appointee or SES with a micropenis got upset that the TSA officer didn’t stand and salute while checking their ID
TSA says officers must stand, chairs banned at airport checkpoints nationwide
Submitted 6 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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spacegoat@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world 55 minutes ago
Did you know someone in SES is the equivalent of a flag officer? If you forget, don’t worry. They’ll remind you.
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
“This welcome change reinforces both our security posture and our commitment to hospitality by having these officers on their feet and alert,” a TSA spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News.
Spoken by someone who has never flown commercial. TSA aren’t there to welcome you but if we’re going to pretend that the bored look of monotony is “hospitality” then id rather be welcomed by someone who is able to sit if they need or want to.
Not to mention there already was a TSA shortage earlier this year so you’re making the job even less tolerable. Whole thing looks and smells like shit
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
TSA should be abolished.
meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour 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
vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Mark Zuckerbergs favorite book, guy must have absolutely dogshit reading comprehension
Steve@communick.news 5 hours 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!
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 hours 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
myyass@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
We must take it a step further, everyone must shit standing up.
riskable@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Trump administration ruins yet another chairished tradition.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 4 hours ago
And when the travelers could be inconvenienced no further, the only thing left was to torture their own agents.
Malica@lemmy.zip 4 hours 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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 hours 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.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 4 hours ago
Lol make Orange Mussolini stand all day until his joints swell up to the size of basketballs, because he falls asleep when sitting
crusa187@lemmy.ml 5 hours 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).
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 5 hours 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.
Perky@fedia.io 5 hours 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?
Triumph@fedia.io 5 hours ago
Cool. Let them suffer.
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 5 hours ago
These people have the power to make everyone around them suffer. Do NOT make their job less pleasant!
Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour 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.