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> Government employees are only human after all This weekend I was traveling and I put the stray $20 from my pocket in the bin at the TSA checkpoint. An agent
by WFHRenaissance 5y ago
> Government employees are only human after all
This weekend I was traveling and I put the stray $20 from my pocket in the bin at the TSA checkpoint. An agent quickly pulled it out and handed it back to me. He then said "a lot of good people work here, but they're still human". It's kind of wild that we endure that level of complacency here in the States.
- jacquesm 5y agoThat's a pretty weird statement, if one of his colleagues would swipe cash that travelers put in the bins then they should fire their ass and move them to the 'not good people' column. Stealing isn't something that defines you as human.
- smabie 5y agoI think pretty much everyone has stolen something before, right?
- jacquesm 5y agoThat says more about you than it does about humans in general.
- smabie 5y agoTrue, but what I've done should say a lot about humans in general right? I'm told I'm human, after all.
- jacquesm 5y agoNo, you can't generalize like that.
- WFHRenaissance 5y agoI think the point the employee was making was that there is a lot of financial desperation among TSA employees, and also minimal supervision. This is pretty well-documented in the news media as well.
- tsol 5y agoI don't think he has the power to fire his colleagues. I think that's reading too much into it, for a lot of people 20 is a lot and for a lot of people you just don't trust others with stray cash laying around. It doesn't say much about humans, except that a small portion of people are willing to commit crime and that's why we have to protect ourselves