<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TacomaRain:
Unknown Screener I'm not sure why you feel that we as leads and supervisors as a whole were not hired on our qualifications. I am a lead and for one have more than adequate qualifications. However, on the other hand, the biggest portion of the management staff had been hired because of their airline backgrounds, not security or management backgrounds. Do you see a problem here?
As to your statement that screeners will be charged with insubordination if they complain, trust me, it isn't only you. Just this past two days I have been threatened with insubordination by management for questioning a manager and Supervisor's handling of an IED. I will continue to do so on the grounds that I, as a lead have a responsibility to act if I see something that will get them hurt or killed.
(please, CarmelGreg don't come back at me with that "flag Waiving" cr..p.</font>
Why do I feel that way? Because ALL Leads and Supervisors were hired based on the results of a test, not a resume. There are 19 year old Supervisors out there lording over much better qualified screeners who could run circles around these "kids." Anyone who went through the hiring process knows it was a farce. Of that there is no denying. Sure, there are some great Leads and Supervisors out there, but there is a great number of really bad ones. I worked with one of the really bad ones, a man with such low self-esteem that he was always trying to build himself up in the eyes of the management by pulling stunts designed to make himself be the hero. Believe it or not, he is still there. The hiring process could have been done a lot better, even though there was a very short amount of time to accomplish it.
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