Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much

It's "amazing" that the most well-oiled ExtortionCheck screening operations are at Reagan National and Dulles. In addition to senior administration officials and members of congress who , the ExtortionCheck lines are full of feds with Global Entry, active duty military & DoD civilians who get ExtortionCheck for free with their CACs. Then, when things get out of hand at Dulles during the afternoon rush hour, the doggies magically appear in the Pornoscope lines and the back-up disappears when the Proletariat gets free ExtortionCheck-for-a-day. It's a big enough joke here in the National Capital region. I can't imagine what it's like in the rest of the U.S.A..



FTE is government-eze for full-time equivalent, meaning belly buttons. It's mostly used to describe a contractor level of effort and not federal government personnel slots. For example, two contractors working 1/2 time = 1 FTE. Some TSA clerks do work part-time, but that's generally down to get around Congressionally-mandated personnel ceilings. You have to pay full benefits to any fed working at least 32 hours.