Originally Posted by seat17D

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

The more you learn about airport terminal operations, the more you realize the TSA is a farce.

Retail vendor operations are just one of the farcical elements.

If you really want a thrill, go chat up one of the managers and find out just how short the average terminal retail employee's tenure. Hint: It's so short the managers don't even bother with learning an employee's name and just read it off the nametag.

If you figure some of these employees are making minimum wage, and they work maybe 3-6 weeks before they -- without announcement -- stop showing up for work, they earn maybe $1500 gross before they disappear.

Assuming there is truly an effective background check made pre-employment, pick any number you want for the price of an effective background check and do the math.

And, here's the real kicker, many of these employees never actually resign. The first anyone knows they have quit is when they haven't shown up for work for several days in a row. Even though the TSA will tell you they do background checks on the employees, the employers don't seem to have good phone numbers for them when the employer tries to call and find out what's up.

And what kind of investigation is done into where these employees disappear to? None. Absolutely none.

The TSA is a political solution, not a security solution.