This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge
As President Trump orders 46,000 federal employees back to work without pay (while signing a bill to compensate all federal employees going without pay after the shutdown ends), the word around the water cooler at the TSA is that, six days after federal employees missed their first paycheck since the shutdown began, more of the airport security agency’s screeners and other employees are citing financial hardship as a reason for calling out of work as the shutdown enters its 27th day.
Though it hasn’t released data about absenteeism witnessed since the shutdown, in a news release Wednesday about checkpoint operations (released as airports around the country cut down on security lines or, like Houston Airport, close whole terminals, the agency said “many employees are reporting that they are not able to report to work due to financial limitations.”
TSA Administrator David Pekoske said that most employees who call out have been honest about their reasons, and the most common excuse he hears is financial hardship – like, for example, employees being unable to afford child care or transportation (i.e. no gas in the car).
#breaking @TSA_Pekoske confirms to @cbsnews the increase in @tsa sick calls is from officers calling out for financial reasons. It’s not a sick out, officers aren’t pretending to be sick. They are saying they cannot afford to work for free any longer. #shutdown
— Kris Van Cleave (@krisvancleave) January 16, 2019
TSA spokesman Michael Bilello confirmed this in a statement.
“We are hearing from our workforce that many of them are calling out not because they are sick but because they are unable to make it to work for financial reasons,” Bilello said.
There are no plans to punish workers who call out, the agency said. The TSA employs some 51,000 federal security workers who earn roughly $41,000 a year.
As of Tuesday, callout rates had roughly doubled from the same day a year earlier, with 6.1% of security officers absent, compared with 3.7% the year prior.
And now that Trump is ordering more airport security workers to return to work, expect this number to rise as the shutdown has no end in sight.
51,000 absolutely worthless employees. The TSA should be disbanded as it is a worthless agency.
IF WOMEN DIDNT HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS WOULD GO AWAY ON THEIR OWN
IF WOMEN HAD NO VOTE THERE WOULD BE NO STUDENT LOANS AND NO MEDICARE AND MEDICAID AND THE PRICES OF TUITION AND MEDICAL CARE WOULD BE NORMAL AGAIN
THERE WOULDNT BE 22 TRILLION IN DEBT
THE COUNTRY WOULD STILL BE 90% WHITE
STOP LETTING WOMEN VOTE
Your an idiot.
you’re an idiot.
Eisen is correct!
YOU WONDER WHY I CALL BABY BOOMERS PUSSY FAGGOT CUCK BETAS
HOUSE VOTES 416-1 TO CONDEMN STEVE KING’S ASSERTATION THAT WHITE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXIST
GILLETTE RAZORS (WHO IS HEADED BY A MUD MAN) THINKS THAT MEN SHOULD ACT MORE LIKE WOMEN
GET YOUR FUCKING TESTOSTERONE LEVELS CHECKED
YOU FUCKING PANSIES MAKE ME WANNA PUKE
DO YOU WEAR YOUR WIFES PANTIES AROUND THE HOUSE YOU FUCKING SISSY BOYS?????
PROBABLY GOT SPAGHETTI NODDLES FOR ARMS AND A POT BELLY
Eisen, you always make good points about everything EXCEPT ‘boomers’. Why don’t you back off from the ‘boomers’?
Dep. Renegade: Eisen ref: if he is gen X or Y he is even sorrier, Maybe he was born before 1945 which rates him in another group of older adults living thru hard times. The Y gen. most losers, slackers living at home w/ parents in their 30’s! two are near me -sorry scumbums and parents losers for allowing!.
closet homo are you?
He’s not a democrat
Menz,
You miss the point is that TSA is probably 51,000 plus Democrat union voters. That was the whole reason for them.
…and to condition the American people to accept tyranny from being groped and scanned and to line up like lambs at their slaughter.
I know a girl who works for the TSA and also has a Hillary bumper sticker on her car. I found out lately that she is also a lesbian. So she doesn’t miss many days of work I would assume. Because it’s not really work to her right. Though, but because of that she probably has to wear at least one panty liner. Though I’m sure she’s only one in tenin that position…. Right.
The next thing will be delousing powder thrown at you too cuz you know how you people live. And a scan of your single eye.
not to mention that 41,000 a year salary doesn’t include all kinds of benefits, like vacation, retirement, healthcare…..just like the L.A. teacher’s strike, i never hear the REAL numbers on what they COST the gubmint. there’s a study out there that says a teacher makes about ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of their salary in benefits. so a teacher making 74,000 a year actually has a package WORTH approximately 150 GRAND a year. dishonesty at every turn in the lamestream media.
BCOD
Dishonesty at every level in government period,,,,
Total compensation is not the same as salary. That is apples and oranges. If you start doing that, then be consistant. The millennials would have a cow if they realized how much total compensation used to be like for healthcare as health insurance once was comprehensive in the eighties and a tiny fraction versus Obamacare.
Large amounts of vacation, tuition reimbursement, profit-sharing and company stock, various kinds of other insurance like inexpensive dental, AD&D, term life, and on and on.
BINGO, many TSA workers were going on sickout during the two weeks before their pay stopped. WTF? That was just pure political. They never did that when Obama was trying to be presidential.
For the first two weeks the media was all about the poor workers working without pay, when in fact they had been paid and only missed their first check last Friday. Huh?
Most TSA workers are part time and those that are full time have 3-4 hours between shifts. Would you work it? lousy pay too. I’d like to see it privitized.
Airport security used to be private. Then we changed that.
Fuck the TSA. We didn’t need them before, and certainly don’t need them now.
Low IQ people need government work.
These blue shirt jerks are why we never fly. I drive.
No one is allowed to grope my wife, but me.
Anyone gropes my kids and that person is TOAST.
Magic blue shirt is no exception. RUDE Dyke blue shirt groped my wife and daughters for LAST TIME. We no longer fly.
Blue shirt security for public consumption theater, is not security. Only purpose is slave training for YOU, and to give no job skill individuals over paid government job.
Fly El Al for real security.
SECURE THE BORDERS!! Build a combo physical and electronic perimeter fence. Have a no go zone. Come through front door US crossing points, or get shot. That is how border should be handled.
I renounce world citizenship. I have been there. Most other places just suck. Join the Navy to appreciate home.
STOP AI. Stop 5G. No robots in public spaces.
AI-5g-Robots are ALL EVIL. Control for YOU, present of the elite.
Borders-Language-Culture-America for Americans
Caravans go back home! Fix your own country.
Political correctness is communism ideology. Fight it.
These loser TSA workers need to get a real job, not harrassing and fondling people. morons anyway. Can’t feel sorry for these bastards!!
The TSA SUCKS
Agreed.
You and I depend on air travel more than most Americans as we can’t drive across our state and it is a long way to the CONUS.
The TSA here are real a$$ wipes they even tried to confiscate a
P38 I keep on my key chain. For you preparers a P38 is a can opener that comes with C and K rations.
Who is going to hijack an airplane with a 38mm long can opener?
I guess that is why they make about $20 per hour before taxes.
Rellik, I say let the TSA goons suffer. They live in another world just like all the other fed workers and have that same ‘us vs. them’ attitude toward the public. Now they have some idea of what we in the private sector have to go through on occasion. Welcome to the REAL world, fed workers!
They dont even deserve that pay,,,
A friend of mine had his hunting rifles stolen by a pair of TSA managers here on Maui, was videotaped, they claimed that there were irregularities with the firearms and had moved them to a secure area and had no idea where they went, the video tapes from the so called secure area and the employee parking area conveniently were missing, these people are absolute crap,
Typical government goons at the least and power hungry psychos at the worst,
I have no use for government goons from any division,
$41,000 is equivalent to $20,500 in 1990 dollars. Big whoop. It’s peanuts pay groping nuts.
How many people can afford to work nearly a month with no paycheck? They then get a notice of eviction when they can’t pay their rent.
Hardly any Americans actually and if it goes two months, they most likely get evicted.
Why would you have higher expectation for them versus yourselves??? Do you think government workers have a duty to work without being paid? WHY?
Its not my fault the TSA SUCKS
Do you know what ultimately made the USSR to implode? Ronald Reagan kept the US Defense budget so high that the USSR floundered as they were forced to try to keep up. But the reality was all their workers went unpaid for a year like soldiers. That broke the back of the USSR.
For those people old enough to remember, the USSR government started selling off surplus and assets and as it went belly up, then the Russian mob started taking over during the crazy Perestroika and Glastnost period.
It was great and the Berlin Wall fell which I never thought would happen in my wildest dreams. It seemed like the USA was invincible.
If we are careless, that could happen here!
So Sayeth Maranatha – The Maximus Moron
Notice how this alleged preacher never discusses Jesus?
Maybe he learned of the great hoax?
The great hoax of atheism is that nothing whatsoever programmed DNA and RNA. The great hoax of atheism is based on randomness, there has been insufficient time for even amino acids to form. The great hoax of atheism is that nothing can cause the Big Bang. If nothing happens, then no change occurs. The great hoax of atheism is that nothing whatsoever can create the infinite mass of up to 2 trillion galaxies.
Atheism is absolutely illogical due to infinite regression. Nothing cannot create something.
When I joined the military there was no promise of pay
in the contract I signed.
How do you think they got away with paying soldiers
in “script”.
Would that work today?
I was a volunteer,
at age 17 at the demand of the
Attorney general of the
state of California, in order to
avoid prosecution for a
youthful indiscretion.
I beat up one or two of his cops.
Back in those days they didn’t
shoot un-armed minors.
Military was far better than prison.
Paid better.
I knew ex military, some small town heroes. Was keeping my grades up. Already learning about conditioning drills and skills testing. I thought, I would go in there, prepared — really, really prepared — and be treated like a teacher’s pet.
But, one question got me in trouble.
I asked the recruiters whether you are committed, permanently, first. Or, do they say where you would be put, *before you enlist. Is there a letter of offer, or how does this work. Careerist questions, on Career Day, during the Q&A session.
The social studies teacher yelled at me, and the recruiters avoided me, around campus, during lunch period.
When troops came out of the service, I oriented them to menial, civilian positions.
I heard stories about arctic clothes being issued to people in the desert and others going thirsty in wet countries, etc, etc, etc.
I wore shiny, protective boots, to those kinds of jobs. So, all the people were telling me not to enlist. The widow, who can only afford to eat catfood, shtick.
r says, “paying soldiers in “script”.
m says, “Would that work today?”
Yes, that’s how it works.
ffs, when you’re pitching people, show them the same gore, that we saw in drivers’ ed. Attract the same of applicant, as from the Alice’s Restaurant story, that we heard in American Lit. And, provide what is ordinarily expected, to do the job.
The extra boots scene from “Deer Hunter”:
http://klipd.com/watch/the-deer-hunter/extra-boots-scene
They’re not looking for a prepped, oriented person, in my experience. They want the feckless and disoriented person, who needs to be told how to shave, that can walk down blind allies and through crossfires. The one that has to be taught how to use a ruler and calculator, in Woodshop.
Zero sympathy for government bureaucrats. Shutdown should continue to weed out deep state agents and parasites in the government who serve no function other than sit on their lazy ass and plan corruption.
So TSA workers are “government bureaucrats” now?
when the genital groping agency is gone for good, i might consider flying again. it’s just another non-value adding, dhimmi-crat jobs – program.
Everything has an opposite effect. It they are let go from the TSA, the number of sexual predators on the streets without jobs will increase. Now without their daily fix they will be looking to the police to make up for thrill that they are no longer getting. It could cause marijuana sales to increase so to trigger drug sniffing dog responses. Know what I’m Sayin’?
Do I have this right? TSA employees are refusing to work but, but they expect full back pay reimbursement of withheld wages when the government shutdown eventually ends. You’re kidding, right! That’s BS. If they don’t work, they don’t get paid! If it wasn’t for their TSA employment, a majority of them wouldn’t simply just be unemployed, they would be unemployable for any reason. Talk about a welfare program!
No, if they don’t go to work they don’t get paid. I was a Border Patrol Agent during the last shut down/ furlough. I am still a federal employee but in a different place with lower pay. I make sure the contractors (construction) don’t screw the government and they try daily. My pay is right at the US average pay and I have had to work with no pay before. The rule is no show no pay. If they do back pay the workers that are not showing up I agree that is B.S. I am still going to work every day (75 miles one way).
I will tell you this I do not see how the average Fed salary is 100k only my boss is the one that comes close to that where I am at. There are about 30 of us that are between 35k and 70k. Yet we have contractors in our office that do the same thing I do for 3 times as much money.
SO HOW ARE THE FED WORKERS THE PROBLEM? WHEN THERE ARE OVER A MILLION CONTRACTORS WITH THE GOVERNMENT?
I agree there are over paid, useless federal workers (TSA), (IRS) and a few others. We could get rid of 800k to a million workers with no problem. Plus the million contractors. And maybe we could get the people who do business with the government to charge a fair price instead of double what they would on the street.
I am not here to argue just stating some facts. I have posted here before and anyone who has been around for a while knows I am a federal employee and a constitutional conservative.
I did this from my phone sorry for any errors.
TSA IS A NAZI BROWNSHIRT AGENCY, DISBAND THEM NOW, KEEP GOVT CLOSED AND MAKE THEY STARVE!
Screw the TSA, can’t wait when the Food Stamp money runs out at the end of Feb. Riots-riots-AND MORE riots!
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!!!!!!
It’s nuts to ask any government employees to come back to work with only the promise of pay. Regardless how you feel, you would not ask anyone today to do that. And I loathe the TSA and Democrats.
For any young upright Christian man who needs work, especially if single, I would suggest looking into a slot on a blue or brown water river barge. The average pay is $58,000 but you are stuck on the barge. It’s not a job a married guy should try as you might be away for six weeks solid. That causes divorces. Often you can work lots of overtime. Most even tempered,clever, hardworking, respectful guys can work their way up from deckhand quite a ways…even become a river pilot. In the old days, river pilots started their own companies.
It’s not a bad job. Just be careful as there always is accident potential.
No wimps or argumentative hotheads should apply. That would be an horribly situation on a barge.
Pilots can earn 100K.
Right. Like you would stay at work if they stopped paying you for one week.
What a bozo. Do as I say, not as I do.
So a government stooge has infiltrated here. I get it loud and clear.
This is consistent with the economic studies saying that Americans have very little money put aside to deal with an economic crisis. There are a lot of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. A serious financial crisis will translate into violence on the street very quickly. Stock up on ammo and beans!
He gets it. We are on the edge ofa precipice as the overwhelming majority have no leeway. They cannot hold out as they have no little extra to live on.
When I worked for DOD as a civilian, I went through four govt shutdowns. We could all make do except for child care expenses. A group of single parents (both male and female) each took a day (w/o reimbursement pay) to provide day care for our young children, thus over a 3 week period each of us was off for two days max. Our supervisors knew what we were doing and when the govt reopened we received back pay, but we were not paid for those days we did child care. By working together we reduced our losses and kept our children safe. By the second shutdown, I had saved enough money to make it through a 3 week shutdown without having to work a temporary job. By the 3rd and 4th shutdowns it didn’t bother me at all.
There HAVE to be MSM news stories of unpaid federal workers or NO ONE would know there was a goobermint shutdown…
On a lighter note, TRUMP CANCELLED A MILITARY FLIGHT FOR A NANCY POLOOSER’S DEMOCRATIC OVERSEAS JUNKET !!!
Trump is Priceless
If there were no stories of unpaid fed workers, NO ONE would know the Goobermint was shut down…MSM has to tell people so they will know !!!
On a lighter note…Trump cancelled a military flight for Nancy Polooser and a lot of Demonrats to take an overseas junket !!!
Trump is Priceless !!!
This union agency needs to be privatized for many reasons
Maybe they can share a WaaMbuLancE with PlousY and the democrats,,,
They all seem oblivious to what many of us have been dealing with for a decade anyway…
I wouldn’t show up if I wasn’t getting paid. I’d quit and go work where I’d get paid. It would happen just as fast as them telling me I’m not gonna be paid. There is jobs everywhere. 40k a year is nothing. Those jobs are dime a dozen
TSA – Terminally Stupid A$$holes
Attn: TSA
Subj: Some Advice
Crawl off into a corner and die – you perverted groping mutha fckers!
What kind of Christian preacher talks like that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkH1RkTClgg
https://youtu.be/QkH1RkTClgg
Gamestop needs some more of these people.
If you lived through the nineties, then you either lost your job through downsizings or justified your salary to keep your job. You might go through that 3-4 times.
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Why not make government profitable? After all, we are allegedly a capitalist constitutional republic…not a socialist democracy.
Make every government worker justify their position…just as everyone else had to. I would bet 50-75% of these jobs (especially the Senior Executive Services that cost 1.2 trillion a year) could be eliminated. That’s a minimum savings of 600 million per year just in management.
If they werent so bloody wasteful it might be possible,,,
get RID of the TSA!!! They didn’t stop the underwear bomber, they didn’t stop the show bomber, they fail 80% of inspections!
TSA…Thousands Standing Around !
the tsa is nothing more than a division of the nwo gestapo
A division of social justice warrior useful idiots and communists
how many islamists are welcomed and work for that division
the emperor has no cloths
TSA jobs attract people who like to intimidate travelers and take advantage of them too…. and get away with it.
Why is it necessary that the TSA be government workers at all and not working for industry? Why not have tests and a TSA must catch 95% in security testing or lose their job?
Wut? Is your memory still working? Airport security wasn’t always handled by government workers.
Dolt! I am suggesting that there is no reason it needs to be government workers at all.
And that goes for EVERYTHING.
Now, now why are you name calling?? Thought you claimed to be a Christian….You owe Mr. Sean a apology.
Now now, m why do you resort to name calling?? Does a Christian do that?? Me thinks you owe Mr. Sean an apology…
It wasn’t government workers before. How’d that work out?
~4 out of every 100 gate rapists would normally have called-in sick.
In an extraordinary situation, ~6.
According to this chart.
Trump could have asked for 5.7 billion when Republicans had control of both House and Senate. How come he waited?
Also wondering what happened to the billions Obama requested and received towards a border wall? He got billions but never even started plans for the wall. Where’s that money?
Get real everyone, they all belong to the same club and we’re not a member.
The government is calling them “non essential employees”. Why the hell do we need them if they are non essential?