What are you talking about? The government is taking over screening at all airports in a couple months. Period. It doesn't make a difference at this point if the screeners catch 110% of contraband or 0%, they're going to lose their jobs and the companies they work for are out. Some of them may get rehired by the gov't, but that's beside the point.

If your boss comes in and tells you that you're getting axed, how motivated would you be do anything? Or if you're the boss, tell your employees they're getting fired and see how motivated they are.

Same things with the companies. Why would you expect Argenbright to invest millions of dollars retraining all of their employees when they're losing their contracts in a few months? They've probably said the hell with it, and they'll take their chances with a few thousand dollar fine versus a guarantee million dollar training program.

Maybe I'm crazy, but it doesn't seem like the screeners or the companies have anything to motivate them to do a great job, unless you consider rude pax calling them names motivating.

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