TSA is removing chairs from checkpoints, said the American Federation of Government Employees TSA Council 100, which represents workers and criticized the move as a “disregard for workers’ rights and safety" and added the chairs “serve as basic ergonomic and safety support for officers that stand and walk on hard surfaces all day.”
TSA confirmed the decision, saying: “This welcome change reinforces both our security posture and our commitment to hospitality by having these officers on their feet and alert. All officers must meet fitness for duty requirements to be capable of performing their vital national security function.”
This kind of shit is how you can tell a boomer is running it. Stupid outdated cruel decisions. I hate TSA as an institution, but a lot of people employed there are just trying to get by, same as the rest of us.
It is unprofessional for them to stand on two feet at the same time. Instead they should have to stand on one foot at all times. They should be forced to wear sensors in their shoes and be penalized if they spend more than 30 seconds in an 8 hour day with both feet on the ground. I think this would promote readiness and show a more professional appearance.
The century-long project to divide the working class is still succeeding.
Removing every bit of humanity, one step at a time. The us is a dark place and it’s getting darker every day.
The people who do the ID checks literally have no reason to stand. They’re sitting on the other side of a kiosk and checking your ID. All the physical security checks are done by other people after that
Yeah but how else can the “leadership” show that they are in control. If you have time to sit you have time to quit lol
Well all the people who are about to quit are going to make the holiday travel season an amazing experience
TSA Agents are miserable enough as is. Let’s make their feet hurt too, that’ll improve the experience for everyone
I mean anything that makes them suffer a little more is a win in my book.
Ok, so you hate the fascist enforcer, but think for a second. When you’re in an airport, you’re stuck with them. Pissing them off is like poking an angry dog that’s harassing your neighborhood, It’s only going to get people hurt. Anything short of removing the dog from the neighborhood is just going to make things worse.
If I’m going to have to suffer a jailer, I’d rather they be fat and happy and willing to let things slide than pissed off, in pain, and trying to take it out on me.
I feel like you’re the type of person who leaves trash on the floor because a janitor will come around to take care of it eventually.
Are you unfamiliar with the TSA? They’re not janitorial staff, they are prison staff.
The rare db0 bootlicker.
Unlike a janitor the TSA aren’t providing an essential service, they’re just diet ICE.
“I’m giving them a job!”
Only in government and megacorp-run buildings.
Yeah. Fuck the exploited and low paid govt/megacorp janitor. That’ll certainly show the people in charge 🙄
Why do you need to specify it?
Cause the alternative is that otherwise it may rot or some volunteer picks it up… Not sure it’s better.
I hate you.
On one hand fair enough, but on the other hand they’ll take it out on everyone else.
Grocery clerks aren’t allowed to sit down in the US, either. It’s stupid.
They are at Aldi
I wish I could somehow convey to whoever is collecting data on me that this is a thing I like.
Like there’s all these entities trying to collect data on me to figure out how to sell me stuff and I want them to know the fact that Aldi lets cashiers sit down positively influences my decision to shop there. If other grocery stores adopted this I would prefer them over stores that do not.
Pretty sure the point is to harm national security. After a false flag attack, everyone will be ready to go to war with whatever country they say caused it which just happens to also have oil/gems/opiates/whatever.
What a nice European cultural import.
Good guy Germany
That’s not mandated by the government though.
Grocery executives believe that US consumers see sitting as lazy and standing as diligently working. Whether or not a sufficient percentage of consumers actually hold the belief should be irrelevant, but it’s a cultural norm (even though it’s objectively worse). The government is functioning as an employer in this case, and is somewhat equivalently failing its employees for the sake of perception by the public. The more important government failing to be angry about is that sitting isn’t protected by OSHA, and the bigger societal failing is that capitalism has suppressed unions to the point that they can’t effectively even win this as a reasonable concession.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90836431/why-dont-cashiers-in-the-u-s-get-to-sit-like-the-ones-in-europe
They stand in markets in Japan too. I wonder how many countries allow sitting vs standing.
If I owned the markets I’d let you all sit. The customers can sit too if they want. Ample chairs all around
In the US, the cruelty often found in menial jobs seems to be part of the point.
it’s a start but I know I won’t really feel safe until they all get mandatory testosterone boosters
May as well hold out for the ICE-style ski masks & electric shock gloves, too.
Sir, is that a nail clipper with a file…?
::zzzzzzzt zzzzt::
That 3-pack counts as 3 items, bringing your item count to 12. You are now detained until the next express-lane court date three years from now.
Oh man I hope there’s a dozen ADA lawsuits incoming.
“Nine times out of ten it’s an electric razor, but every once in a while… it’s a dildo. Of course, it’s company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. We have to use the indefinite article, ‘a dildo’, never… your dildo.”
ANNNND the Money we save on CHAIRS we can Spend on
HELPING American Citizens!ADS for Donald Trump!They already have chairs, they are going to take them away and probably throw them in a dumpster
Nah, it’s the government. They’ll pay for a warehouse to store them and a security company to guard the warehouse.
The excess property process is a bitch.
It didn’t use to be. That’s how army surplus stores became a thing, and then how it suddenly wasn’t a thing anymore.
Man and they finally stopped being such dicks the past few years.
“…our committment to hospitality” 🤣
