Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
I'm not sure what more can be said about this partial government shutdown and how it impacts some government employees including TSA.
The actions of these employees calling out sick in this matter seems more harmful to TSA's image than helpful and will, in my opinion, further erode the TSA nameplate. I recognize that TSA's employees are caught between a rock and a hard place but they still have an obligation to report for their assigned duties. If an employee cannot meet their other obligations the correct course would be to resign and move on.
Yep -- I also have zero sympathy for a federal employee, especially a TSA clerk, who is in an "essential" job and has to report to work without pay during a shutdown. Suck it up and do the job you swore an oath to perform with the best of your abilities. This
phrase comes to mind:
...that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
If you can't do this...quit. The TSA clerkforce and leadership have amazingly short memories. They obviously have forgotten about the Great Shutdown of October 2013.