TSA gets raises, complains about confusing rules
Nov 24, 2009 | 4:22 pm
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I don't know. I actually have slightly better insurance and pay a bit less than when I worked in private industry. Ate their any industries where people don't pay anything for insurance?
Nov 24, 2009 | 4:30 pm
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The article said:
According to the report, about 17 percent of employees fell into the top performance category in 2009, earning a 4 percent boost to their base salary and a $2,500 bonus. About 32 percent were in the next tier and will receive a 2 percent raise and a $1,500 bonus. Twenty-seven percent will receive a 1 percent raise and $1,000 bonus, and nearly 24 percent will receive only a $500 bonus. A small portion (0.02 percent) of employees will not receive any raise or bonus other than the cost-of-living increase, which everyone will get.
If the cost-of-living increase covers the health insurance rise, then 99.98% of the employees are still getting $500 or more above that. If it takes the c-o-l + $500 bonus to cover insurance, then 76 percent of the TSA are still getting at least $500 + at least a 1% raise.
Nov 24, 2009 | 5:17 pm
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some
Not me though.
Nov 24, 2009 | 5:56 pm
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Nov 24, 2009 | 8:59 pm
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Nevertheless, I find it amazing that only 0.02% of the TSA workforce was incompetent enough miss out on bonuses completely. Note that 0.02% of 45,000 is 9 people. Those are pretty low standards. We could probably count more than 9 people (by position/airport, if not by name) who have been called "bad apples" by Blogdad Bob this year alone.
Nov 24, 2009 | 9:33 pm
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Without the time to go look up the details of each story, I'm thinking (in no particular order):
I hope the ones caught stealing, drug-running, etc are no longer drawing any salary from TSA. But I'm not confident.
- the TDC who got huffy when Phil wouldn't hand over an ID;
- the guy at STL who picked a fight with Steve Bierfeldt;
- the screener who was honest testifying in the Fofana case;
- the screener who was honest testifying in the McCarty case;
- Wanda Weems, who boarded the flight without going through screening;
- our favorite punchline: Alvin;
- the screener(s) at DFW who missed a loaded handgun and two hunting knives... in the same month;
- the TDC who thought 6'2", 200 lb, 14-year-old "Dakota" looked just like his mom "Virginia";
- the recent TSA person who skipped screening, causing a flight to have to return/be diverted.
- everyone involved at LAX who let BS through with her ice, thereby leading to the lamest PV explanation of all time and making TSA look even stooopider than anyone thought possible;
I hope the ones caught stealing, drug-running, etc are no longer drawing any salary from TSA. But I'm not confident.
Nov 24, 2009 | 10:42 pm
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Now with respect to unions, do you really want that? TSA's already laregely unaccountable as it is. Do you really want another layer of unaccountability added to that?
And if TSA gets free health insurance from unionization, why shouldn't everyone else who works for the G?
Nov 25, 2009 | 1:25 am
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Nov 25, 2009 | 2:52 am
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Oddly enough, the kids in my high school who got below a 1750 on the SAT said the same thing too. And the kids at my university who got less than a 160 on the LSAT seem to be saying the same thing about that test.