About 61,000 TSA employees must keep working without pay as DHS remains unfunded

And the crushing machine keeps going.

Don't worry though, Congress still gets paid to bicker and blame.

I'm related to a few teachers, they're laughing so hard right now.

They should get ICE's paychecks.

And apparently there's never any money for universal healthcare, increasing teacher's wages, fixing roads, infrastructure, etc. But there is over $11 Billion that materializes to fund a war in the Middle East in just week 1. Go figure.

Hey the end of year budget panic spending at the White House included 9 billion in lobster so yeah it's great isn't it? We peasants aren't getting anything but it's great.

Given the job market, a lot of them don't WANT to get fired, can't afford to get fired. Not getting paid (for now) is terrible but for many, losing the job would be devastating.

I was thinking about this earlier because I almost worked for the FBI, and was thinking about how I'd react if Patel were my boss. The job market is atrocious is the problem. It's not really an excuse but like. I couldn't just go from working to not. Yeah you might get something if you get fired, but can you guarantee it'll be enough to survive until you find new work? Can you guarantee this government won't pull shenanigans to ensure you get nothing? Again, I'm not trying to excuse working for these monsters. But I think I get that a lot of them feel truly stuck and need to be able to pay bills.

Government pension would be at risk. Even if there were no direct punishments affecting their pension status they’d never get another federal job so may never see the pension if they weren’t vested and if they were it could be a fraction of what they were planning. There’s likely no job they qualify for that will pay close to what they are making or provide the Sam benefits. Maybe some could get another LE job but if you’ve ever tried to get into LE it’s not something you just apply for and expect to get hired in a couple weeks. It’s a very competitive field.

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Supervisor doesnt need to approve their leave. If they claim sick leave the supervisor can require a doctor's note.

The very least would be "malingering" and you can catch charges. You can look up what charges they can get but there's stuff in place.

Rural Ohio here. Our nearest McDonalds will pay you like $18.50/hr if you’re willing to work between 8pm and 8am. (Standard midnight shift, possibly a few 12s.) A lot of places that really raised pay around here during Covid have dropped it back down; McDonalds is the exception; I suppose if anyone can afford to keep wages high, it’s them. Meanwhile, every local Burger King has closed except this weird independent one that doesn’t do any of the advertised promotions or anything.

And get blacklisted from other government jobs, which pay better for that sort of work. To work for the TSA you only need a diploma or GED and it pays over $20/hr with benefits.

So we start a for profit prison, then bid (very low) on the TSA contract, Pay prisoners $0.3 per hour ( that is really what prison labor pays) and an ever revolving staff of minimum wage "guards" each guard can supervise 20 inmates. so for $21 you can replace 20 TSA agents. Now after we get the contract we will "discover" that the airports need extensive renovations to insure "safety", however the government pays for all that, and hires our specialized construction company to do all that work. So now we have our very c**** labor doing all the work and we have a perpetual contract for our construction company. Oh and the best part, we don't need any of this to get the contract we just say we can do it then get payed for all the time to ramp it up. we use that money to buy a construction company and get started.

You’re already indirectly paying $5.60 per one-way trip to the TSA.

It should be noted that Democrats have tried to pass funding for other agencies in DHS, everything except ICE and CBP, but Republicans have refused to take them. They're accusing Democrats of playing politics while also not allowing funding for the unaffected departments to go forward. Because, of course, they're the ones playing politics.

There are long term benefits to a government position and they will ultimately get paid, but not everyone has 2 months of reserves to carry them through these shutdowns that unfortunately are becoming more frequent and longer in duration

The job market is hot putrid ass right now.

> They’ll defund TSA pensions faster than you can say social security I wouldn't be surprised if it had already been raided/compromised in some way. The less able a group is to put up a meaningful fight, the more attractive they are to the financial predators of the ~~GOP~~ MAGA (the GOP is effectively dead, and MAGA's wearing it's face Ed Gein style).

It's important to get people on your side. Letting people pass without checking is making the people who make money and power from the TSA angry, not the people who use the TSA. Just like the perfect bus strike is having all busses run on time, but take in no fare. It gets the common man on your side and your bosses hate you.

TSA employees are making $55-70k a year.. a lot more than a fast food worker and much better benefits. My buddy has worked for them for ~15 years and makes like $75k

I literally tell everyone I work with I'm only there because I'm a healthcare slave. It's bullshit. I've had periods without insurance and they were scary, I only survived because I make sure I'm over prescribed and hoard everything related (insulin, pump supplies, test strips). Luckily, a single lancet can last years. Good luck to you both, this new war we're in pretty much ensures supply chain shortages and I'm not looking forward to it.

Lmao. Go read the studies about how much stuff gets through the TSA and what little they actually do. Probably can count on 1 hand what they've "caught". Pre 9-11 flying wasn't a murder zone and we weren't getting stabbed or shot on every flight. 

Former TSA here, it is security theater. The TSA is meant to be part theater. It’s set up that way to discourage anyone from trying anything because they might be caught. And before you say anything, yes, almost all TSA knew this and talked about it when I worked there. Also, the airports will never go back to private security. It would cost the airlines too much. The airlines save a lot of money for their shareholders by having the taxpayers pay for airport security.