BOB STRIKES AGAIN

SOURCES WITHIN THE TSA TELL ME THAT SCREENER MANAGER BOB AND THE FSD JOHN, WERE IN CHARGE OF ASSISTING THE CANADIANS WITH THIS OPERATION.
I UNDERSTAND THAT "NO BRAINER BLAINER" AND HIS ASSOCIATE LEAD SCREENER SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ARE BEING SENT IN TO ASSIST AS THE "THINK TANK" TO THE CANUKS.
HEAD STUPIDVISOR MIKE R WILL BE THE GO TO MAN IN GRAND RAPIDS IN THIS MASSIVE SEARCH AND REBURY. KIND OF LIKE THE POLISH NAVY HERE!

MAX AND JOHN'S VACATION PORTRAITS

NEW NEVER BEFORE RELEASED PORTRAIT OF MAX AND JOHN DURING THEIR LAST VACATION.

ONCE AGAIN, I MUST WONDER OUT LOUD..... OUT OF OVER TWO MILLION SPERM, HOW IN THE HELL DID THESE TWO SCHMUCKS END UP THE WINNERS. MAYBE DARWIN WAS WRONG!

JOB INTERVIEW FOR TSA STUPIDVISOR

It has come to the attention of The Rogue Jew, that unauthorized photographs were recently released of the Interviews conducted for the Screener Stupidvisor position that were, of all places, in one of the CTX machines down front.

I understand that this is a pic of a person that did not get the position, that she/he will have to continue on as a Screener/Trainer.

INTERVIEW WITH TRIUMPH THE INSULT COMIC DOG

I recently had a chance to speak to Triumph the Insult Comic Dog recently about his recent visit to Grand Rapids, Michigan and his experience with the Transportation Security Administration, particularly his run in with the Management at this particular airport.

He informed me that Grand Rapids, Michigan is a beautiful place to poop in, especially the offices of John and Max , the two "HEADS" of the TSA at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. While pooping under Max's desk he said that he ran into a fat redhead with a trailer park hairdo that was stationed under his desk during the interviews for Screener Stupidvisor. Triumph has pitty for the human male that can't lick themselves and has to hire the job out to "Wannabees".

He said that humping Lori's leg was like dry humping a anorexic 2x4, and that Bob's leg was only good for pissing on. Triumph also stated that this could also explain Bob's wet look hair style.


Parody.

YOU'VE GOT MAIL!

The email has been rolling in as usual. I've been saving a few of the letters to post. Here's a couple of them....

Rogue,

Man you are dead on with all of this stuff. You're lucky that you got out, even with the way it all went down. Max was hunting you down like he would have hunted a Prostitute when he was with the sheriff's dept.
It's just getting worse now. They have all of their snitches out and about with their ears sticking strait up trying to find out who is writing stuff to you and who your contacts are. They have literaly killed the First Amendment of the Constitution here at the Gerald R. Ford. Max is beside himself because he knows he can do absolutely nothing to shut you down or shut you up.
Keep it up. You have done more for morale here then anything that Mumma or Harnish would ever do besides tell us more lies to try and appease us.

Sincerely,
LOOKING FOR WORK

Rogue Jew,

I was once a supervisor at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport for the TSA. You could not be more right about this stuff. I left because of the incompetent twits that they hired as Screening Managers. Max was as worthless as tits on a boar hog when he was the training coordinator. It surprises me little that he is even more worthless and ineffective as the AFSD.
John and Max are doing little more then protecting their own paychecks and asses. I doubt they will do anything to improve the working conditions for the Screening Force. It matters little to them the turnover rate at the airport. As long as the wait times are short, they look good and that is all that matters to them. As for the wait times, well the screeners actually control that function, and the more they bust their asses to make the idiots at the top look good, then probably nothing will be done to send their asses packing. You and some others were aware of that and the two moronic idiots in charge were quick to shut you and your cohorts down when they got wind of it. Snitches were your down fall. (Snitches deserve stitches)
Keep up the good work though. Whatever you can do to irritate the ones in charge the better. I have made some friends of mine in the media and in Washington aware of your website to raise the awareness of the terrible working conditions that exist for TSA Screeners at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport and everywhere else.

A Supervisor Who Cared!

FROM THE UNKNOWN SCREENER

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Job worries and other things too...

I work for the government and I really don't want to get into which branch and stuff, so I'll just say that most of the people working with me don't like their job. I know for a fact that myself and several others are actively seeking other jobs so we can get out of the one we're in.

There are management problems, supervisorial problems and problems with some of the leads too. I believe there are only 3 sups I like and maybe 2 leads. I don't like any of the management. There are a few employees that I would rather not work with, one because he is so old that he's putting his fellow employees, not to mention his fellow Americans in harms way because he dazes off every now and then and in our job that is NOT an option! My employers use this man as "poster child" for the organization and I'm not upset with the man, by all means, I love him to pieces, as a matter of fact, I say YOU GO V!!!, but it's still not right to use him just because it gets my place of employment national attention because they have the oldest working employee in that service. I used to respect this employee, and I still do to an extent, but myself and other employees who have to cover for him and work with him are starting to get very frustrated with him. Outside of work I couldn't ask for a better friend, but I'm sorry...working with this man is driving me and many others absolutely crazy!

To my employers...Please, let him go with dignity, not disrespect. If anyone deserves a slower paced job such as at the information booth in a museum, or even a job in Admin. at our own place of employment; it's V. Give the guy a break and stop using him for your own selfish means; let the guy go out with respect and dignity still intact. He deserves it and, really, you don't deserve him.

Another person I don't really like working with is one who never shuts up. This person has done more, seen more, been more places, worked more places, and has relatives who have done all of the above too, and she's only 23 yrs old! What is going on here? I am trying to be civil to her, trying to talk to her too, but you just can't talk to her! She has to be the center of attention and no matter what, I mean NO MATTER WHAT you're talking about, she butts in and has a better story about the topic you were speaking of, even when you weren't speaking to her at all. I'm a newly saved Christian and I am trying so very hard to let this go and to be a good listener and to be nice to this woman, but it's nearly impossible! She will lie so blatantly and everyone will look at each other like saying...WHAT???, THERE'S NO POSSIBLE WAY!!!!.....and either she doesn't notice, or she doesn't care. I believe it's the latter.

She doesn't care what she says, who she says it to, or what she sounds like, just so the attention is on her at all times. Her present condition, which I won't mention on here, is also getting on everyone's nerves, I just have one thing to say to this woman and I'll end this diatribe...Keep your hands out of your shirt while you're on the job! Some things are better done in private, not while you're at work and in front of customers and employees who really don't want to see your stomach, also, I believe that you could be a really nice person if you'd just let others talk amongst themselves without putting your two cents in; give it a try huh? Thank you. I'm done now. I have more things to worry about.

A MESSAGE TO SOME VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE WHO HOLD A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART

This message is directed to the corrupt, abusive, and ineffective leadership of the Transportation Security Administration at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I probably need not name who this is for, I'm sure the ones guilty of harrassing Screeners, using intimidation, providing inept training, and use of strong arm tactics against your Screeners......

John, Max, Bob, Lori, Ken, Marie, Kent, Bruce, Kim, Special K, Bill, Brenda, No Brainer Blainer, Mike, Krista, and not to be excluded, Paul (who is as dumb as he is big).

My, and many others wish to all of those mentioned is that when the TSA comes to a disasterous end and it goes down in history as being the biggest Governmental Blunder of all times, is that your next position of employment finds you working for people who are bigger SHIT FOR BRAIN ASSHOLES than the ones I had the unfortunate displeasure of working with for nearly 3 years of my life which I will never be able to get back. I am sure it would not surprise you to find out how many of the Screeners working at GRR, and those who have left already, support me in this wish for all of you!

From a former Screener and others who shall remain nameless, We dedicate this message to YOU; all who are mentioned. If I didn't name you, then I apologize, some dumbasses are just more memorable than others!..........The Rogue Jew

PS...May the fleas of a thousand camels find comfort in your mother's beards!

YOU BETTER ACT NOW! TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR FEDERAL SCREENERS.

MAWA will continue to inform our elected officials of the conditions which exist at our Nations Airports regarding our Federal Screeners . This issue was commutated to to a Senator in regards to the TSA's underhanded attempts to terminate Federal Screeners just under the 3 year period so as to prevent the Screener from acquiring their right to parts of their pension, along with other possible Rights to Federal employment which would be credited as cutbacks in the workforce are increasing.

I do urge all of you to write your Representatives and Blow the Whistle on the DIRTY Tactics of TSA HIGH PAYED OFFICIALS . They are creating their Raises off of your Backs and your Livelyhood. Unless you, as Federal Screeners Like the Unemployment Line and being in Debt, then ACT now and let your elected officials know that you VOTE . Do not let them turn their back on you as a Federal Worker and an American While TSA Managers have all the luxuries of home while you as Federal Screeners are Paying the costly price of Keeping them in Style. Contact your local Official at WWW.SENATE.COM or WWW.CONGRESS.ORG . Like I said; BLOW THE WHISTLE on the Abuse. Send us an e mail at WWW.MAWAUS.ORG This will assist us in acting on your concerns. We can make a difference. Do not let the TSA officials turn you into their personal profits by Administrative Trickery. Federal TSA Security Screeners are not commodities ,They are Assets to America and our way of life, Dedicated personnel determined to keep the American Public Safe.
Sincerely

Bob Marchetta
Director / Employees Rights
Metro Airport Workers Assoc./ Associated Local of the United Steel Workers of America AFL-CIO

BOSTON LOGAN SCREENERS LOSE EXIT LANE POSITION TO PRIVATE "RENT-A-COPS"

This story is from TSA-SCREENER.COM
You can bet if it's happening elsewhere, then it's going to happen at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport soon eneough. I'm surprised that Krista hasn't gone running into Max's office with this idea. Not like you're not already on your feet 8 hours straight while the lazy ass Stupidvisors and Leads sit on their ever widening asses and don't lift a finger to help. Now they want to take the one half hour stretch that you can get off of your feet. Do you think they'll take away the stool from the Stupidvisors? Hell no, that'll never, ever happen.

Boston's Logan Airport, from where two planes were successfully hijacked from two private security companies on 9-11-2001, is quietly replacing all federal TSA Exit Lane agents with private security guards on August 21, 2005. You won't hear a "we are making things safer!" MASSPORT press conference on this one...

These new private company security guards will make $4 less than TSA employees make and earn $6 less an hour than private TSA-contracted screeners made in 2002...for the same security vital position. Penetration of many Logan Airport Exit Lanes provides rapidly smooth access to unsuspecting passengers, airport runways and access to parked planes.
Since early 2004, private security companies have been gate screening international flights in the federally protected sterile area in violation of Congressional mandates of federal agent and screening to be done only by those federally trained.

Logan's private companies utilize former TSA-contracted private screeners whom were rejected due to non U.S. citizen issues. This forcible rejection based on nationality, coupled with a then drastic cut in their salary rates makes these companies employees susceptible to bribery for being turned by Al Qaeda. Or, by any other criminal seeking unauthorized access, for that matter.

Surely, many of those rejected by this country because of their nationality have an immediate personal motive to feel a desire for possible revenge, should that chance ever come before them.

Now such an opportunity...has been handed them by MASSPORT and TSA. It is amazing that the Department of Homeland Security also allowed this downgrade of Logan's airport "sterile area" security.

MASSPORT and Logan airline operators were burned once already, yet now MASSPORT and TSA, have turned the other cheek. Instead of staying the course, they have chosen to roll the dice with the lives of 25,000,000 flyers each year.

Their security gamble puts hundreds of federal TSA screeners at risk, as well, because many Exit lanes can't be personally monitored by TSA supervisors. Cameras don't serve the public interest being used to replace actually present in person federal oversight. As 9-11 proves, cameras beaming down on checkpoint entrants didn't deter terrorists one bit nor can they be used to apprehend them in time to save anyone.

TSA & MASSPORT have already okayed these private company security guards. They are not federally trained nor Congressionally authorized [unless the airport as a whole "opts out" of federal agent screeners airport-wide].

This puzzling flip-flop against federal security for Logan flyers comes in the face of TSA suffering one of its highest resignation rates here, steady at 38%. Since TSA isn't allowed to completely replace every resigning federal screener, there is no turnover ratio to be more helpfully noted.

In the last few weeks already one preliminary private security company Exit guard supposedly allowed a breach in Logan's newest terminal "A". Shades of post 9-11 problems come to mind. Here we go again...

CONSISTENCY-IT'S THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE STUPID!

I wish to comment on this article for you read; this from the Canon City Daily Record.
Now the writer tackles the consistency from airport to airport. As a former (Thank G-d)Screener of the TSA, I wish to comment on the consistency between shifts and between Stupidvisors.

In the Words of one Screener, "It's Awful!" Each Stupidvisor takes it upon him or herself to make up their own rules as they go along, or some Stupidvisors afraid of confrontation with a passenger would let them continue on with a prohibited item such as a cake knife till confronted by Yours Truly. I wanted to submit an official document of disagreement with that Stupidvisor who suddenly "Rose to the occasion" to chase down that passenger and retrieve the prohibited item knowing the Screener would officially object if he didn't! One Stupidvisor on mornings insists on confiscating small round tipped sewing scissors, which are considered allowable, NOT prohibited, from old ladies and all this while she watches over the screeners like an overlord, she refuses at most times to assist in the wanding area, so she cleans the ETD machine instead of assisiting an overworked female screener who has probably been all by herself most of the morning.

Consistency...MY ASS! There is absofreakinlutely NONE! The only thing consistent at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan is the fact that the Administration, Management and Stupidvisors of the TSA are the most LAZY, INEXPERIENCED,INCONSITENT,SELF SERVING,CHICKENSHIT, SPINELESS, CORRUPT, AND MOST WORTHLESS BUNCH OF DUMBASSES I HAVE EVER HAD THE DISPLEASURE OF MEETING IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. Now with that all being said, I hope you enjoy the article......The Rogue Jew

Publish Date: 8/2/2005

TSA must be more consistent

The Transportation Security Administration’s stated goal is to protect the nation’s transportation systems by ensuring the freedom of movement for people and commerce.

The agency, created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, certainly has its work cut out for it, and the workers try their best to implement national policy and keep travelers safe.

But consistency is desperately lacking when it comes to procedures in airports around the country. Incon-sistency can be a recipe for disaster.

Traveling from Denver International Airport to other airports around the country, many already have seen how travelers can be scolded to the verge of public humiliation at one airport for something as simple as not knowing to remove a video camera or laptop from a bag at the screening station. At times, travelers even have to show agents how the device works.

Upon returning from a different airport, the same traveler can go through screening with the same camera or laptop without anyone noticing or commenting.

Similar past inconsistencies have been noted concerning travelers in wheelchairs or passengers using baby strollers.

If TSA is to truly fulfill its mission, consistency is a must. Traveler complaints about wait times or personal violations during screening likely would subside if the procedures were the same around the country. If we know what to expect, we are more likely to comply without complaint.

Frustration is bound to set in, however, when a security check wait at DIA can take 30 minutes or more and a similar check at a large airport such as San Francisco International takes five minutes or less.

But inconvenience is not the game. Security is.

Inconsistencies in checks also result in inconsistent security levels. Anyone who truly wishes to do harm can find out which airports are the easiest to pass through.

Terrorism, obviously, is alive and well as seen in the recent attacks in London. TSA needs to get its act together across the country to be sure procedures are followed properly without leaving passengers feeling humiliated if security is to be maintained.

SPECIAL WEEKEND MESSAGE

TSA JOB SATISFACTION SURVEY RESULTS-CLICK ON THIS TITLE!

IF YOU CLICK ON THE POST TITLE IT WILL TAKE YOU TO A WONDERFUL WEB PAGE THAT SHOWS THE DHS MODEL WORKPLACE SURVEY RESULTS!

WITH PRIVATIZATION COMING IN THE FUTURE, I HOPE ALL OF YOU ARE THINKING NOW WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING NEXT.

I CAN HONESTLY TELL YOU, THAT THE BEST MANAGEMENT IS NOT WORKING FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THEY ARE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

GOOD LUCK YOU GUYS, MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU EVERY SINGLE DAY!

ANYWAY, CHECK OUT THE LINK TO THIS WEBSITE, I DON'T THINK YOU'LL BE SURPRISED BY THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY.

LETTER FROM THE "UNKOWN SCREENER" OF GRR

The following letter was emailed to me from a mysterious source from the TSA at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. In respect for this person wishing to remain unknown, I have deleted the email and have Copied and Pasted the letter in respect for this unknown Screener's privacy.

Dear Friends,

It seems to me that John Mumma the FSD and Max Harnish the AFSD at the Gerald R. Ford International in Grand Rapids, Michigan should be made to answer some questions. There is enough which has been said about some of the questionable background of some of the administative staff at our airport to fill a dump truck. On behalf of the Federal Security Screeners of Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, We need to call for a more in depth investigation into the Complaints stemming out of Grand Rapids by abused and intimidated Federal Screeners ,Victims of a Hateful Administration running the TSA Mission Amock. We ask at this time that all screeners and workers Nationally contact The FSD and AFSD at Grand Rapids , Contact our congressman and senators in writing and by phone and tell them to remove the FSD, AFSD, Managers and Supervisors responsible for carrying out these Acts against our Federal Workers . The Hostile Working environment created by TSA Is making it very difficult for Screeners to do their job and protect the public in their best interests.

Go to WWW.MAWAUS.org File your complaint and also let our Elected Officials Know We are FED UP with Hate in the TSA Workplace. Abusive Managers MUST be Removed For the Good of the Service and Just Cause is Obvious by the number of filed complaints of Abuse and Rights Violations inflicted upon Federal Screeners. Send John Mumma and Max Harnish A STRONG Message!! Call MAWA & AFGE Or Email Them. Also, email your Congressman and Senator. If eneough letters and calls start landing in the right places, maybe something will finally be done about this.

IRAQ WAR STATISTIC-NON TSA RELATED

If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in
the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, that gives a
firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The firearm death rate in
Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000.
That means that you are 25% more likely to be shot
and killed in our Nation's Capitol, which has some of the most strict gun
control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion:

We should immediately pull out of Washington, D.C.

TSA CHIEFS FORCED OUT ON THEIR ASSES!

After reading this article, it does my heart good to think that there is still hope of watching the high and mighty MUMMY and SPHINCTER MAXimus and all of their fellow cronies eventually come tumbling down from their ivory towers.

Screeners....SEND IN THOSE LETTERS! DON'T LET THESE SCHMUCKS KEEP YOU IN FEAR FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES! THERE IS LIFE AFTER THE TSA! I KNOW, I FOUND IT! SNITCH OUT THESE WORTHLESS BASTARDS, WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO BE AFRAID OF? PRIVATIZATION IS COMING ANYWAY. THE TWO MEATHEADS (FSD & AFSD) COULD GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT YOU GUYS. BRING THEM DOWN! NOW IS THE TIME!

I HAVE INFORMATION THAT IS SURE TO BE EMBARASSING TO SAY THE LEAST, AND COULD BE THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN FOR THESE TWO CHOWDER HEADS!
LET FREEDOM RING!!! THE ROGUE JEW

TSA brass removed local chief, aide says

By Jim Ritchie
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, August 4, 2005


The former Transportation Security Administration chief at Pittsburgh International Airport was booted from his job in May after supervisors lost confidence in his work, according to an assistant who resigned at the same time.
Robert Blose resigned from his $142,735 job heading the TSA at Pittsburgh International, but only after superiors asked him to leave, Craig Martelle, who was Blose's assistant federal security director, wrote in a letter obtained by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

"George Naccara asked Bob Blose to step down at the end of May due to a loss of confidence by (then) TSA Assistant Secretary Dave Stone," Martelle wrote in the letter to the TSA's interim management at the airport. Naccara is the agency's Northeast area director in Boston.

Until now, the agency had described the departures of Blose, Martelle and William Rough, former deputy assistant federal security director for screening, as resignations for personal reasons, although they left at the end of an internal investigation.

The TSA investigated claims of fraud, intimidation and sexual harassment that employees made against the managers, but brought no charges. Tom Rice has been the acting federal security director at Pittsburgh since Blose resigned.

TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis would not comment on Martelle's letter Wednesday.

Martelle's four-page letter paints a different picture of events. In it, Martelle described how the resignations followed a conversation between Blose and Naccara.

"Dave Stone is the man who was fired by the White House from what was a five-year position earlier that month," Martelle wrote. "His handling of the TSA resulted in a cult of personalities, and his inability to work with Congress resulted in a complete failure of strategic vision.

"Dave Stone considered Bob Blose and his key staff members (the Deputy AFSD Screening and me) to be too demanding -- self-discipline and high standards of personal conduct were too 'military,' according to a vocal minority."

Martelle, reached by e-mail, confirmed he wrote the letter but could not be reached for comment by telephone. Blose, who lives in Moon, did not return a phone message seeking comment.

Martelle's letter also criticized the agency's new leadership for a June 30 security breach at Pittsburgh International, when a woman slipped through the security checkpoint without being checked by X-ray equipment. She boarded a plane before TSA officials identified her using airport video.

The checkpoint was closed, but not until after her flight had departed.

"Why the checkpoint was closed nearly two hours after the passenger breached security is not just an inconvenience to the passenger, it borders on incompetence," Martelle wrote.

The Trib first reported April 29 that TSA employees at Pittsburgh International asked for the investigation of managers. They questioned why the TSA allowed the managers to resign.

President Bush and Congress formed the TSA in November 2001, two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The agency employs 312 people at Pittsburgh International, but intends to reduce the number to 258.

Jim Ritchie can be reached at jritchie@tribweb.com or (412) 320-7933.

BOB & LORI- REMEMBER, YOU'RE NOT IMMUNE TO YOUR OWN STUPIDITY!

Screeners, could you imagine BOB or LORI having to do bag checks for Virgil or Dennis? How funny would that be? Lori wouldn't have time to kiss up to the old guy to be included in his will. Sue would knock her over for that spot anyway!
I found this article at SCREENER-CENTRAL.COM. Good Piece. Check it out.

SCREENER MANAGERS DEMOTED AT SMF.

A slew of screening managers for the Transportation Security Administration at Sacramento International Airport have been demoted, according to a TSA employee who contacted Screeners Central anonymously.

According to the source, all but three screening managers at the airport have been demoted, reportedly because they were improperly promoted to begin with.

"A memo came down from Washington," said another TSA employee, who spoke under condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation from the local TSA management if they were identified. "Headquarters said we (SMF) have too many managers."


Screeners Central administrator Mark Arsenault contacted TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield for comment. Hatfield failed to respond to multiple e-mail inquiries about the issue,

LONEWATCHMAN ON THE JOB-34 VENDORS ANNOUNCED AS QUALIFIED TO TAKE OVER AIRPORT SECURITY. TSA JOBS IN JEAPORDY?

Sioux Falls Regional Airport Joins TSA Screening Partnership Program
Aug 02, 2005 By News Staff

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week approved
Sioux Falls Regional Airport in South Dakota for participation in the
Screening Partnership Program (SPP). TSA also announced that 34
companies have been approved as qualified vendors, eligible to compete
to provide passenger and baggage screening services for the airports
that are approved for the SPP.
Starting this fall, the Sioux Falls airport will begin the transition
from federal TSA security screeners to using screeners employed by a
qualified private company. Under the SPP, the federal security director
(FSD) is still responsible for security at the airport and for
maintaining TSA security standards.



"TSA is pleased to announce the approval of Sioux Falls Regional
Airport for the Screening Partnership Program," said Kenneth Kasprisin,
acting assistant secretary of homeland security for TSA. "TSA is ready,
willing and able to work with any airport that makes the local decision
to apply to the program."

TSA assumed responsibility for aviation security in February 2002. By
November 2002, a federal work force was hired, trained and deployed to
screen passengers at 424 commercial airports. Under a pilot program
required by the ATSA, TSA selected airports in five cities to have
screeners employed by qualified private companies: San Francisco;
Kansas City, Mo.; Rochester, N.Y.; Tupelo, Miss.; and Jackson, Wyo.
Private screening companies may only hire employees who meet the same
requirements as federal screeners. Like federal screeners, private
screeners must be U.S. citizens, have a high-school diploma or the
equivalent, be proficient in English, and pass a 10-year FBI background
check.

In addition, all private screeners undergo 40 hours of classroom
training and 60 hours of on-the-job training on the same standard
operating procedures as federal screeners. This means that the private
screeners at San Francisco International Airport, for example, operate
under the same security procedures as federal screeners at other
airports.

In 2004, as required by law, TSA analyzed the pilot program to
determine if the private screeners delivered the same level security
and customer service as federal screeners. TSA hired independent
consultants to conduct a study, and it was determined that the private
screeners were able to meet the same standards.

Based on this conclusion, airport operators in November 2004 were able
to begin applying to TSA to have screening performed by a qualified
private company.

RUNNING SCARED

During an "important TSA meeting", the FSD, AFSD and Screener Manager suddenly remember fancy titles don't mean shit to those they cannot control.

TRAINING AT THE GERALD R. FORD INTERNATIONAL, OR LACK THEREOF!

Check this opinion article out! A TSA Training Coordinator who ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING! The TSA must have hired this guy by mistake. I can, without a doubt, say that the one at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport does absofreakinlutely not a damn thing! Oh yeah, I forgot, he made a training video which was WRONG!

I have even read about a Training Coordinator who had a Police Bomb Squad do a demonstration for the Screeners. I think that one was at JFK. At a tiny airport such as the Gerald R. Ford International, one would think that the person in charge of training would have more time to be, what is the word I'm lookin for.........Oh Yeah! PROACTIVE! This putz in Grand Rapids does NOTHING! NADA! ZERO! ZILCH! Screeners have even been asked to sign their training sheets even though they were not complete. Anyway, read the following article.

Airport security folks deserve some applause
While most people agree that in a post-9/11 world airport screenings are a necessity, the Transportation Security Administration has become the agency travelers love to hate. Longer wait times to get to airport gates and people poking and prodding you when you are barely awake enough to find your ticket.

I want to buck the trend and give a big thank you to TSA at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The extraordinary team led by federal security director Paul Wisniewski and training coordinator Cassandra Clark has been working for months to improve the way screeners work with passengers with disabilities and especially assistance-dog teams.

Beginning several months ago, TSA invited members of the Partners of Assistance Dogs Network to help train supervisory personnel. Assistance-dog trainers and partners, along with their dogs, reviewed the TSA procedures for working with people with disabilities and assistance-dog teams. Soon after, TSA trainer Curtis "Bob" Burns visited a Partners of Assistance Dogs meeting to explain the screening process to the partners and to demonstrate with the dogs.

To read the rest of the article just click on the post header. I think the Screeners at GRR would agree...I made my point!

GOOD MORNING TSA!

This message is for all of the "Special" people at the TSA that will always hold a special place in my heart just for having known them.

John, Max, Bob, Lori, Kim, Kent, Bruce, Mike, Krista, Brenda, Blaine, Ray, Dawn, Mark, Paul, Erik. This message is for all of you, the ones who keep the lines down to the parking lot, who stand and do NOTHING while others work their asses off and make YOU look good, the ones whose son's get their boyfriend's daughter pregnant WHILE you still live and are married to your husband, the ones who grab screeners by their lanyards and yank on their neck to get their attention, the ones who sit in the bar watching the Pittsburgh Steelers football game WHILE at work, the ones who are as stupid as they are tall, the ones who do their college homework AT work, thus allowing the taxpayers of America to foot the bill for you getting your degree in BasketWeaving, the managers who are good at doing nothing ALL day and needing help to do even More Nothing,the training coordinator who makes 70 thousand or more a year doing absolutely NOTHING to train screeners but sit on his fat stupid ass making "training" videos that are WRONG, the ones in human resources who make screeners fill out their own workmans comp papers and do...well... nothing, and the two who let this all happen and just ignore the problems and brush it all under the carpet hoping Washington continues to do nothing so that you can continue to collect Muy Dineros of the Taxpayers money and walk all over the ones who work for you...THIS FINGER IS FOR YOU!