No pay, no work. Them’s the rules.
Hey, he doesn’t want to give up the power to legally molest strangers.
Unfortunately, when you work for the government, it’s not that simple.
HOWEVER, work to rule is very much a thing. If your job description doesn’t say you do it, don’t do it. Stick to established work hours. Let your manager cover the shortfalls that result. It’s ot like they can dock your pay, and stripping your benefits package for doing the job you agreed to is highly illegal and may provide an extra multimillion dollar windfall.
“Other duties as assigned” is the bane of my existence
When tsa was new, and they first came out with tsa-compatible luggage “locks” ….
- I left my luggage locks on the zipper pull, not locking anything … they cut them off! And left a nasty note inside my luggage about non-standard “locks”
- I did try the standard “locks” once, although they seemed more useless than ordinary suitcase locks. Yep, they cut them off
“I understand that the landlord needs to get paid.”
Seems like any time the federal government tells a worker they need to work without pay they should also mandate that all their debts and rent should be paused as well.
What’s also interesting is while the Federal government is unable to pay its workers, the people at the top are sure living large.
GOP senator criticizes Pentagon’s $93B spending binge on fruit baskets and king crabs
Quit
Then maybe he should get a real job. Or start selling some of the ‘contraband’ he ‘confiscated’ from people (otherwise known as the TSA side hustle).
Welp time to get a real job
If he wants taxpayer money, perhaps he should consider a line of work that’s beneficial to taxpayers.
This is 100% not a requirement to receive government money. The vast majority is not spent for the benefit of taxpayers.
Nobody has claimed otherwise.
But he’s unlikely to get much sympathy from people who notice that what he does for work shouldn’t be allowed, let alone paid out of their pockets.
Get another job, TSA is and always has been a farce and a joke.
Yeah; I had a job once where I went without pay for a few months on more than one occasion. My family paid the price. Eventually, I cut my losses and moved on to better employment.
My employer stops paying, I stop working. Simple as. Quit and hope someone will employ an unrepentant authoritarian.
I don’t know that the TSA is a repository of true believers. They’ve mostly seem bored and annoyed when I’ve passed through.
I could see why people would stick with it. It’s a relatively low-stress job that pays decently, has government labor protections, government benefits, and doesn’t require a lot of education. Some searching suggests the average pay of a TSA worker is $56k. Plus retirement and health insurance. And the only credential required is a high school diploma or a GED.
What other job that requires nothing more than a high school diploma has pay and benefits that good? Maybe if you start your own business up. But in terms of wage labor, very few things come as good, at that education level, as a TSA job. A couple, each working at the TSA, can easily bring in $100-150k per year if they stay there awhile.
It’s quite understandable why the TSA agents won’t quit during a shutdown. When the money is flowing, being a TSA agent is a pretty decent gig.
The other jobs are: Military, Police, Postal Worker. I wouldn’t consider the first two under current circumstances, but I was in the Military, within 4 years my total monetary compensation was in the ballpark of 85k plus retirement, plus free healthcare.
Other options include working up to management in retail or food chains, it’s easier to make that kind of money than you are giving credit for.
If I was a TSA agent not getting paid, I’d not bother taking anyone’s water bottle away. Let them pop on the plane. May the cabin be forever soggy.
Air travel was cooler when your soda bottle was an all in one demonstration of altitude and air pressure.
Are the cans they serve made different?
Neither bottles nor cans will actually explode because the difference between the cabin and sea level air pressure isn’t that much and the containers are already able to handle some. When you’d open a plastic bottle you’d get a bit of a pop. And if you drank most of the bottle and resealed it, it’d crumple when you returned to sea level.
The effect only applies to gas since it’s compressible under pressure. Liquid isn’t, so it doesn’t matter what the outside pressure is. So the cans (and full bottles) might have a little pop from the gas at the top and it might be a little fizzier at altitude, but most of the volume is liquid so it’s not that much.
