Genital viewing anyone?

This picture proves that the risk of images being stored is real. Even though this was done specifically to show how the image is viewed (including a blurry face) it's clear that such images can be saved, stored and viewed later.

Personally, I believe I alone should be allowed to choose to whom I show my genitals. This is a strip search, not a security screen.

Many thanks to CNN for the image!

Hey Lardass... get rid of the chair

Productivity experts seem to agree... that standing is more productive than sitting. There's less time taken to do each task.

So why do the lardasses at TSA sit on their tushes to check IDs, watch the scanner or other tasks?

Is that why they had a 99% bonus payout in FY08 for "superior performance"? I think it's time we recall the stools and get these folks to finally understand that the public doesn't come to the airport to stand in line... we come to the airport to get on a plane. Let's speed up the process okay fatty?

TSA Workers apparantley "top notch" performers

Get a load of this from the TSA's website (emphasis added by John Q Traveller):

Myth: TSA officers are overworked, underpaid and unrewarded for good work. They have the lowest morale of all federal agencies, the highest attrition and on-the-job injury rates.


FACT: In FY08, 99 percent of officers received a pay for performance incentive based on their FY07 performance. The percentage of TSA officers receiving bonuses and pay raises exceeded the percentage of federal government employees receiving bonuses and pay raises under the General Schedule. Many officers received higher bonuses and raises than they would have received under the General Schedule. TSA paid out $98 million in bonuses and pay raises in 2008 as part of our pay for performance system.
The number of workplace injuries per year has fallen over 75% from FY 2004 to FY 2008, and continues to fall. A majority of TSA field employees agreed on the 2008 Organizational Satisfaction Survey that TSA had implemented programs to promote occupational safety and injury reduction.
Also in the 2008 Organizational Satisfaction Survey, 94 percent of all employees responding to the survey said that they agreed that their work was important, 82 percent agreed that they like the work that they do, and 78 percent agreed that they intended to stay at TSA for at least the next 12 months.
Voluntary attrition of full-time officers is 8.9 percent (as of 11/22/08), a drop of 46.1 percent from FY06.
Voluntary attrition of part-time officers is 19.25 percent (as of 11/22/08), a drop of 50.2 percent from FY06.

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Any organization that is paying a performance bonus to 99% of it's employees is setting it's standards WAY WAY WAY too low. These people should NOT be lauded as top notch performers - they need to be held to a higher level of courtesy, speed, effeciency and effectiveness. If they want to pay for performance, offer an incentive to the top 20% and see if that doesn't change their performance a bit...

I thought we were ALL supposed to have our bags screened

While standing in the (crawling) line for security at Orange County, CA airport today, I noticed that the TSA waved forward an airline pilot. He entered the secure area through an EXIT - spoke to the TSA guard and, after signing a paper, walked right on into the supposedly secure area.

Now, if I have to be checked (I'm just as trustworthy as any old airline pilot) why doesn't he?

The TSA continues to amaze me with it's inconsistent application of it's byzantine set of rules.