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Hundreds of TSA Screeners, Working Without Pay, Calling Out Sick at Airports

posted by takyon on Monday January 07 2019, @09:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the groped-into-it dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown, have called out from work this week from at least four major airports, according to two senior agency officials and three TSA employee union officials.

The mass call outs could inevitably mean air travel is less secure, especially as the shutdown enters its second week with no clear end to the political stalemate in sight. "This will definitely affect the flying public who we (are) sworn to protect," Hydrick Thomas, president of the national TSA employee union, told CNN.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @02:51PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @02:51PM (#783191)

    is the currency for MAGA hats sort of like the credit one gets for having a PC that earns a lot of bogomips?

    seems that the bogus aspect would be a common currency between them.

    make linux on the desktop great again!

    also why did they remove the minimize window icon in gnome; i just installed debian 9.6.0 and it was a fresh install of anything nix with a gui in a long long time

    i had to find out what file to edit to restore that, but it seems very... forced tablet os behavior. on a server.

    overall i think i cant stand the new guis on linux, too. maybe I should just focus on my bogomips.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @06:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 07 2019, @06:21PM (#783279)

    Agreed. Linux is a never ending dumpster fire of an OS (distribution, whatever!)
    If only they could stick to making it the best, stablest command line oriented OS ever.
    Linux dorks actually managed to "innovate" a *worse* GUI than they had in the year 2000, for God's sake!