Schipholjfk From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 579 posts, RR: 6 Posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 1302 times:
Interesting article about possible fraud/waste at our stellar TSA
"Transportation Security Administration official spent $500,000 on art, silk plants and other decorations for a new operations center and then went to work for the vendor after leaving the agency,"
"The operations center, located just outside Washington, has a 4,200-foot fitness center with a towel laundry service for 79 federal employees."
"..."inappropriate decision-making by individuals who operated with unchecked autonomy" led to waste and abuse in the construction process."
GQfluffy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 1288 times:
Sigh. It figures. And to think TSA was going to stop checking boarding passes and IDs at HLN because of inadequate staffing. They just "didn't have the manpower". That's great. Then what's the point of you fools even being there manning the checkpoint? Joe Sixpack can check in, then walk out to the parking lot and give it to Usama Jomomma, and in turn he can get into the secured area. Thank god we talked them out of it. They'd rather drop $500k on art for their HQ then follow their own rules.
STLGph From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8981 posts, RR: 27 Reply 2, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 1287 times:
after two articles this week blasting them, including their very existance, all our fine TSA folks are going to be a bunch of happy campers in the coming weeks.
Eternal darkness we all should dread. It's hard to party when you're dead.
Sanjet From Canada, joined Mar 2005, 180 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 1286 times:
Ah yes money well spent. We're having sort of a similar problem here in Canada...
That's always going to happen to programs that are funded by governments in any country.
STLGph From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8981 posts, RR: 27 Reply 4, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 1281 times:
Quoting GQfluffy (Reply 1): And to think TSA was going to stop checking boarding passes and IDs at HLN because of inadequate staffing.
i always thought the checking boarding passes "thing" was very ineffective.
i know several damn good graphic design artists and printers who could knock out a few if they wanted to, get past security, and ask a unknown persons to carry items with them onto the plane.
Eternal darkness we all should dread. It's hard to party when you're dead.
GQfluffy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 1274 times:
Yes, but IMHO, it's better then nothing. There is only a few types of ID (government issue, they are harder to fake, and I have spotted a few fake ID's. I had one once.) that we as an airline will accept. It's great to tell a pax that we need a different ID. You'll receive the riot act because we won't accept a college ID as proper identification. I love my job.
NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3084 posts, RR: 5 Reply 7, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 1210 times:
Danpio From United States of America, joined May 2004, 131 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 1204 times:
Did we expect any less when Congress formed the TSA as a government agency? A unionized one at that. Double worse! Has anything efficient or good ever come from a gov't agency? Nope!
I'd kill everyone in this room for one drop of sweet, sweet beer.- Homer J. Simpson
CVG2LGA From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 590 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week ago) and read 1123 times:
< Did we expect any less when Congress formed the TSA as a government agency? A unionized one at that. Double worse! Has anything efficient or good ever come from a gov't agency? Nope! >
i say it all the time, and ill say it again, if you think you can do a better job then why arent you? plenty good has come from government agencies, you perhaps are to jaded to see it though. look at the secret service for all the times they have fumbled, a hundred times over they have prevailed. but i digress, the tsa is NOT unionized! certainly not, we were told at CVG that if we had any type of union material on us while at work we could be terminated. so dont know where you got that info, but its wrong. sry.
tchau
DA
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ANCFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (8 years 1 month 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1060 times:
Quoting CVG2LGA (Reply 12): i say it all the time, and ill say it again, if you think you can do a better job then why arent you?
Because I ahve a real job, doing real things, making a real difference . . .
Next question?
TSA has been blasted three times in a week . . . even by their own auditors . . . I know you work for TSA . . . you'd said so in other posts.
While I'm sure you are NOT personally to blame, and would never condemn you for the trouble of your agency, I can assure you, collectively, with few exceptions - your agency is frowned upon by everyone I know. I personally think the TSA an enormous waste of money and resources and - as your own auditors have said - we are no better off than we were 9/10/01.
When I count 39 TSA idiots standing at ANC at 1130 on a weekday with two security lanes running I have to ask the question - WTF??? That's only the TIP of the iceberg . . . we won't even get into the $400,00 party, the $500,000 house plants and art works. And I'm not going anywhere near the frisking of grandmothers and three year olds . . . or the tasting of breast milk. . . and the "optional" removal of shoes . . . on and on and on and on and . . . . .
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