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It's good to be da king (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Things didn't end well for the last guy...

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Sorry, but unemployed TSA should get no sympathy. In fact, if you want to kill government programs, it should be at the front of the line. Pork barrel security theater bullshit.

Fuck the TSA and the idiots on power trips working for them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How about their kids? Should they get sympathy? Because these people won't be able to feed them.

Government shutdowns affect far more than just the employees, and in this case those employees are literally being used as slaves. Maybe that deserves sympathy too... unless you think "idiots on power trips" deserve to be enslaved. I don't think anyone does personally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you have that same attitude towards ICE agents kids?

People lose their jobs all the time and still feed their kids. A government shutdown is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I do. Because people deserve to be paid. Not paying someone and forcing them to work has a name. Slavery.

If you get hired for a job, even if it's an immoral job, you deserve to be paid. People who work at payday loan places, people who work for TurboTax, people who work on oil rigs, people who work on factory farms and slaughterhouses all deserve to be paid and children do not deserve to suffer because politicians can't get their shit together.

A government shutdown is in no way a good thing just because certain government departments you personally don't like will not pay their employees. There's a lot of other people who are helpful that also will not be getting paid.

Or do you think it's a good thing to not have things like air traffic controllers and food inspectors? If so, you're a libertarian and you will be very unhappy with Trump's dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If the government shuts down, it means they go home, not that they're forced to work without pay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

David Pekoske, the head of the TSA, tweeted that 95% of TSA employees are classified as essential workers and will work without pay in the event of a shutdown. Air traffic controllers are also considered essential employees and would be asked to work without pay. Federal employees would receive backpay after the shutdown ends.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2024/12/20/tsa-holiday-travelers-longer-airport-lines-shutdown/

Second time I've had to do this in this thread.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

For real. Like Fox News pundits, they're being paid to not understand the consequences of their own work. They're a drain on tax funds performing ineffective security theater at the cost of convenience, privacy, and sometimes the flights of ordinary people. If you're TSA, you should consider something else that would be of greater social benefit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not the employees' fault, saying they should get no sympathy is a dick move.

That aside, I agree the TSA is a great example of the kind of spending that needs cut and the department dissolved.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Have you seen the kind of people these kinds of jobs attracts? We aren't talking about Starbucks workers, we are mostly talking about people that get off on power trips.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago

You don't exactly work together to keep those psychos out dontcha

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Yeah I was going to say this. Just because their pay is shit, does not make TSA employees nice people.