I have worked a lot of odd shifts in my time.

IME, the hardest schedule is the split shift. There are very very few people who find a split shift acceptable, and I have never known anyone who wanted to work a split shift on a permanent basis, even if it was very close to home.

TSA has made too many of its 'officers' non-working LTSOs, STSOs and BDOs. Part of the staffing issue is no doubt caused by lousy managers promoting their pets as a way of giving them pay raises. Unfortunately, it also effectively takes them out of the work force, because they no longer have assigned duties, as anyone observing a checkpoint for very long will quickly see.

We would be fine with 42K working screeners, but that is not what we have.