Originally Posted by eyecue
I can only go by what managers have told us on this issue. I cant find anything to back them up. However your link is a review of applications to check for hiring issues it is not a difinitive list of the amount of people that applied for the jobs.
The bolded portion (in conjunction with the outlandish assertion that the TSA received anywhere near 60 million applications in filling about 60,000 positions) speaks volumes about your managers.
You can only go by what they told you? The outlandishness of the assertion on its face isn't readily apparent to you??
That any TSA employee would swallow such a ridiculous assertion without breaking out in uncontrollable laughter at their idiot bosses' lack of math skills/lack of honesty/whatever, is sobering.
If Denver has 1,000 screeners (just a WAG, I don't know how many there are), the "1 in 1,000 applicant" BS means that 1 million people applied for those jobs. That would be every man, woman and child living in Denver plus another half a million outside Denver County. That would be practically every non-retired adult of working age in the Denver metropolitan area. Think that happened? Think it's even a remote possibility?
The article I linked said that the TSA received more than 1.7 million applications by the end of 2002. True enough, 60 million is "more than 1.7 million," but I'm confident that had the number been substantially greater than 1.7 million, the TSA would have said so.