Majority of TSA workers at BWI, Dulles fail recertification test
 

Well, we know they won't be water-boarded as punishment...

"TSA employees believe that many of them are being intentionally failed on the Practical Skills Evaluation recertification test so that the agency doesn’t have to give them raises and bonuses. A letter send by the American Federation of Government Employees to Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano and House Homeland Security chairman Bennie Thompson calls for a nationwide investigation into test standards and the training of TSA screeners."

Awwww! The test is SO hard!!! :(

Fire them!!! :mad:

No wonder Bart has been AWOL from FT lately. ;)

so can our resident tsa folks 'splain what happens when you "fail" and i do like this part from the article-the bolding is mine and "lack of uniformity and bereaucracy" kinda sums it all up, dontcha think?

"One screener reportedly failed the body pat-down section of the test in Houston - even though she found all the items that would have triggered a security alarm – but passed after retaking the test and doing the same thing at BWI the next day. "If I failed because they do things differently at other airports, that's not right. Everybody needs to be doing the same thing," she said."

Gee, the same maddening, inconsistent behavior that passengers face daily; how strange that any TSO would object...:mad::td:

I guess its time to lower the goalposts. The US Army permits ex-perps, lower-n-lower IQ test scorers and psychological misfits. Why not the TSA.

MisterNice

Uh, they do.

Glass half-empty/half-full
 

Half of the screeners at BWI passed??? :eek:

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A screener failed a test in HOUSTON yet passed it the following day in BALTIMORE? Seems a bit strange to me.

C'mon...you can find FTers who fly to SYD for a day to add pages to their passport. Why not a TSO who flies to BWI to pass a test? :p

I do like the conspiracy theory that they're only being failed to be denied a raise; that's a fun one. Better let them unionize so they can ensure fair treatment for all. :rolleyes:

I've got it now - they flew the ones who failed elsewhere to BWI and let some of them "pass" so that BWI could get up to 50%. :D

Interesting. So the labor union that’s trying to organize the TSOs, and claiming the tests are unfair, just basically wants to lower the standards.

Someone else asked this, but really, if they are not passing the recertification test, then how are they able to do the job, and how can the TSA still claim that they are keeping up standards of security?

I don't want to pile on the TSA, but really, how are they able to keep the lanes open with qualified screeners at those airports? Imports from other airports? Overtime?