Things didn’t end well for the last guy…

  • BoofStroke@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Sorry, but unemployed TSA should get no sympathy. In fact, if you want to kill government programs, it should be at the front of the line. Pork barrel security theater bullshit.

    Fuck the TSA and the idiots on power trips working for them.

    • minnow@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It’s not the employees’ fault, saying they should get no sympathy is a dick move.

      That aside, I agree the TSA is a great example of the kind of spending that needs cut and the department dissolved.

      • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 month ago

        Have you seen the kind of people these kinds of jobs attracts? We aren’t talking about Starbucks workers, we are mostly talking about people that get off on power trips.

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          1 month ago

          Yeah I was going to say this. Just because their pay is shit, does not make TSA employees nice people.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      For real. Like Fox News pundits, they’re being paid to not understand the consequences of their own work. They’re a drain on tax funds performing ineffective security theater at the cost of convenience, privacy, and sometimes the flights of ordinary people. If you’re TSA, you should consider something else that would be of greater social benefit.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      How about their kids? Should they get sympathy? Because these people won’t be able to feed them.

      Government shutdowns affect far more than just the employees, and in this case those employees are literally being used as slaves. Maybe that deserves sympathy too… unless you think “idiots on power trips” deserve to be enslaved. I don’t think anyone does personally.