I'd like to know how TSA employees are getting by and paying the mortgage or rent, considering that most people have less than $500 in savings. People saying that they've heard of banks giving out zero-interest loans in some areas is only anecdotal.
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unlike most other forms of law enforcement, TSA agents lives are most at risk when off-duty and someone learns they are an agent in a social setting. As a result, the government shutdown is putting TSA lives in jeopardy.
They are at risk of getting laughed at.
I doubt even that. Most agents would probably just say "I don't like them either, but it pays the bills".
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You don't think screening for bombs has any potential to be dangerous?
You may as well say that construction workers, electricians and pizza delivery drivers are out there, putting their lives on the line
Construction is a dangerous job as well. You can be hit by falling things, there can be heavy equipment failures, you can fall off the buildings if you're not sufficiently harnessed. Electricians too - there's a chance, however small, of receiving a lethal shock. Delivery drivers could get killed in car accidents, it happens every day (car accidents, not specifically involving pizza drivers but given they're on the road more often it's a statistically higher probability for them)
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
You may as well say that construction workers, electricians and pizza delivery drivers are out there, putting their lives on the line
Construction is a dangerous job as well. You can be hit by falling things, there can be heavy equipment failures, you can fall off the buildings if you're not sufficiently harnessed. Electricians too - there's a chance, however small, of receiving a lethal shock. Delivery drivers could get killed in car accidents, it happens every day (car accidents, not specifically involving pizza drivers but given they're on the r…
Yes, these are all much more dangerous jobs than TSA - yet they wouldn't describe themselves as 'putting their lives on the line'- that's my point.
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#115If this happened in France (or many other places) there would be strikes, barricades, burning towers of tires, the whole works. American workers are incredibly timid.
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> essentially unpaid servitude According to Webster: "a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life" This is false. They have an option (leave) and can execute on it.
Man the world you must live in where the option to be unemployed for months is a trivial thing for everyone involved.
Months of unemployment != servitude. There is an option.
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Congress already signed off on giving everyone back pay and I've read that they will be giving out a 1 day's pay and a $500 bonus to all TSA officers. It helps cushion the blow of having a $0.00 paycheck but it doesn't fix the situation. You have people not being able to pay rent and mortgages. The bank will be fine but a landlord might not be so fine, they will have to dig into savings to make mortgage payments. Tha…
It boggles my mind how the new normal consists of re-living the 'best' part of the collapse of the Soviet Union - the part where people had to go to work, but weren't getting paid for it. Of course, in the Soviet Union, you didn't have rent and mortgage payments to make, bread and vodka was provided through rations, and during the collapse, nobody cared too much if you looted your workplace of anything that wasn't na…
Companies would probably prefer paying their employees in one lump sum every year (think of all the interest you could make investing their wages throughout the year!) The shutdown doesn't really affect corporations that much. Many govt employees still have to go to work so most things get done and for the ones that are furloughed, companies might get off easy on skipping inspections and doing proper paperwork because there is no one checking. Everyone will get paid someday but its hard going for weeks with delayed income, especially low-level govt employees who aren't exactly rolling in the dough. At least the ones on furlough have the time to go find some temporary work. The CBP workers should actually organize something, they can't fire everyone.