Long TSA Lines [merged threads]
Apr 8, 2016 | 5:05 pm
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Apr 8, 2016 | 6:22 pm
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Picked this up from @AskTSA.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...ning/82800678/
TSA claims 7,000 new Pre Check enrollments per day. I question that number. How many applicants can TSA interview each day? I'd be willing to wager an ice cold cola that the number is way less than 7,000.
Also in the story is the number of passenger sniffing dogs TSA has. 130! Not enough to staff each airport with just one dog much less enough to staff the larger airports with enough dogs to conduct screening operations all day.
Dogs and Pre Check, that's TSA's plan to deal with long screening lines!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...ning/82800678/
TSA claims 7,000 new Pre Check enrollments per day. I question that number. How many applicants can TSA interview each day? I'd be willing to wager an ice cold cola that the number is way less than 7,000.
Also in the story is the number of passenger sniffing dogs TSA has. 130! Not enough to staff each airport with just one dog much less enough to staff the larger airports with enough dogs to conduct screening operations all day.
Dogs and Pre Check, that's TSA's plan to deal with long screening lines!
Apr 8, 2016 | 10:25 pm
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Picked this up from @AskTSA.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...ning/82800678/
TSA claims 7,000 new Pre Check enrollments per day. I question that number. How many applicants can TSA interview each day? I'd be willing to wager an ice cold cola that the number is way less than 7,000.
Also in the story is the number of passenger sniffing dogs TSA has. 130! Not enough to staff each airport with just one dog much less enough to staff the larger airports with enough dogs to conduct screening operations all day.
Dogs and Pre Check, that's TSA's plan to deal with long screening lines!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...ning/82800678/
TSA claims 7,000 new Pre Check enrollments per day. I question that number. How many applicants can TSA interview each day? I'd be willing to wager an ice cold cola that the number is way less than 7,000.
Also in the story is the number of passenger sniffing dogs TSA has. 130! Not enough to staff each airport with just one dog much less enough to staff the larger airports with enough dogs to conduct screening operations all day.
Dogs and Pre Check, that's TSA's plan to deal with long screening lines!
There isn't any need to deal with the lines. The lines are long because Neffenger has ordered the clerks to slow down the lines to create a backup. All that's needed is to fire Neffenger and put somebody in there who's interested in doing the job.
Apr 9, 2016 | 6:10 am
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Funny, I heard Charlie Brown's teacher: "Waaah wa wa waaaah wa waaaah."
Apr 11, 2016 | 7:17 am
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Role of @AskTSA in controlling lines
Why does @AskTSA have any influence of the length of lines at individual airports?
Does TSA at airports involved wait until AskTSA has received a number of complaints about wait times before something is done to remedy the problem?
This concerns us, @AskTSA is working hard to reduce your wait time
Apr 11, 2016 | 11:13 am
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"Working smarter" might mean a better ratio of non-working supervision-per-employee.
I see almost as many non-working LTSOs and STSOs at the checkpoint as I do employees who are actually doing something.
'Working smarter' might also mean that we don't pay federal wages, perks and benefits to people who stand in front of a closed WTMD or who stack tubs. Those functions could be better performed by some of the many LTSOs and STSOs currently standing around doing nothing.
Well. Unless jacking your jaws, playing with your cellphone, and distracting working screeners with extended personal conversations while pax are kept waiting is your idea of working.
I see almost as many non-working LTSOs and STSOs at the checkpoint as I do employees who are actually doing something.
'Working smarter' might also mean that we don't pay federal wages, perks and benefits to people who stand in front of a closed WTMD or who stack tubs. Those functions could be better performed by some of the many LTSOs and STSOs currently standing around doing nothing.
Well. Unless jacking your jaws, playing with your cellphone, and distracting working screeners with extended personal conversations while pax are kept waiting is your idea of working.
Apr 11, 2016 | 11:43 am
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"Working smarter" might mean a better ratio of non-working supervision-per-employee.
I see almost as many non-working LTSOs and STSOs at the checkpoint as I do employees who are actually doing something.
'Working smarter' might also mean that we don't pay federal wages, perks and benefits to people who stand in front of a closed WTMD or who stack tubs. Those functions could be better performed by some of the many LTSOs and STSOs currently standing around doing nothing.
Well. Unless jacking your jaws, playing with your cellphone, and distracting working screeners with extended personal conversations while pax are kept waiting is your idea of working.
I see almost as many non-working LTSOs and STSOs at the checkpoint as I do employees who are actually doing something.
'Working smarter' might also mean that we don't pay federal wages, perks and benefits to people who stand in front of a closed WTMD or who stack tubs. Those functions could be better performed by some of the many LTSOs and STSOs currently standing around doing nothing.
Well. Unless jacking your jaws, playing with your cellphone, and distracting working screeners with extended personal conversations while pax are kept waiting is your idea of working.
For the tubs, an even better idea than yours would be to put the SCs and LCs in charge of stacking tubs and make the tub-stackers into SCs and LCs. The tub-stackers generally seem interested in doing their jobs.
Apr 11, 2016 | 12:07 pm
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Why is there a closed-WTMD stander in the first place?
For the tubs, an even better idea than yours would be to put the SCs and LCs in charge of stacking tubs and make the tub-stackers into SCs and LCs. The tub-stackers generally seem interested in doing their jobs.
For the tubs, an even better idea than yours would be to put the SCs and LCs in charge of stacking tubs and make the tub-stackers into SCs and LCs. The tub-stackers generally seem interested in doing their jobs.
Because as we saw very recently, another pax got through the checkpoint entirely unscreened - no ID, nothing.
The many LTSOs, STSOs, and BDOs standing around didn't 'see something' because they were too busy chatting with each other and playing on their cellphones.
The alternative would likely be a multi-million dollar contract (awarded to someone connected to Neffy or Nappy or Skeletor) to make custom 'WTMD-blockers'.
Apr 12, 2016 | 11:42 am
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Apr 12, 2016 | 12:58 pm
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Nappy is, at this point, plenty busy building sexual harassment detectors for the UC system, so I think you can count her out.
Apr 13, 2016 | 1:55 pm
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A few flights ago, a TSA employee gave me a sheet of paper when I joined the checkpoint queue. She wrote the current time on the paper before handing it to me. I was asked to give the paper to the WTMD operator when I reached that point. I wasn't in the PreCheck line, so I didn't think the "WTMD" part was correct, but SDOOs were possible that day, somehow.