FAMs filling quotas?
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Definately a bad thing to tie financial/career rewards to making reports-just begging for frivolous/false/exaggerated reports. I think this is the only time I've agreed with SPIFF on anything! :-)
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Originally Posted by lianluo
Definately a bad thing to tie financial/career rewards to making reports-just begging for frivolous/false/exaggerated reports. I think this is the only time I've agreed with SPIFF on anything! :-)
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Those memos were dated back when Tom Quinn was in charge of FAMS. Hopefully, the new FAMS director and Kip Hawley will put an end to this. I agree 100% that this is riduculous and disgusting and someone needs to put an end to it immediatly.
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Originally Posted by etch5895
Who did the FAMs fall under before TSA?
FAA?
FAA?
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Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much
Wasn't there a thread on this subject a month or so ago? The purported FAMs who post here claimed that none of these "made-up" reports ever saw the light of day and were discarded. -- Yeah, right.
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Originally Posted by FWAAA
For many years, the FAA. Then, when the TSA was formed, it took over the marshals, Then, IIRC, ICE took over the marshals but has since given them back to TSA. A marshal is bound to correct that if the chronology is wrong.
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The fact that something like this could get you on a watch list (which could prevent you from flying, getting a job, credit, etc., etc., etc.) should serve as a warning to the pro-police state people who always refrain, "if you don't have anything to hide..."