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And think of it this way.. they went from zero to over 50k employees in two years. You don't get that by hiring the best and the brightest but by lowering the
by caseysoftware 8y ago
And think of it this way.. they went from zero to over 50k employees in two years.
You don't get that by hiring the best and the brightest but by lowering the bar so far that as long as you're semi-literate and don't have a record of violent crimes, you're hired.
I've flown ~100k miles each of the last few years and they're getting more arbitrary and few can point at the actual rules they're enforcing.
And it's worth noting that they are agents and not officers which places them closer to bureaucrats than law enforcement.
- brownbat 8y agoI was pretty alarmed by the culture described by This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/647/ladonna https://www.thisamericanlife.org/647/ladonna Even if we were just erecting pure security theater, it'd be great if we could not build a refuge for pervasive sexual harassment or psychological abuse at the same time.
- ironic_ali 8y agoI remember reading not long after the TSA (operationgrabass?) started they were advertising on pizza boxes.