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It's good to be da king (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 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] 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Remember when the goverment was first shut down in a long time, if ever before, when Republicans thought it would be a good ratfucker move to harm Obama's presidency, and it blew up in their faces, and our Country went from a AAAA rated borrower to a AAA borrower due to government disfunction? We seriously need a law that prevents this stupid shit from happening again. Maybe if they don't pass funding, we just renew the last passed funding. It pisses me off so much. Imagine getting paid a significant amount of tax payer money, a life long sipend, and better health care than most the county, and not even doing your job and letting the goverment shut down. At some point here the lawlessness is going to convince enough people that it seriously doesn't matter anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (34 children)

I mean.... Good? TSA is worthless anyway, they should be shut down forever. I hope it's one of the first agencies that are completely abolished

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ruining the holidays for a bunch of government employees, not just TSA. I am more worried about air traffic controllers, NASA, NOAA, FDA, the VA (yeah they suck, but a lot of people depend on them and making them work unpaid is definitely not going to improve anything), and thousands of other government employees that will go without pay. The longer it lasts, the worse it will be for the economy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Damn. Imagine just showing up to work knowing you won't be paid, with a bunch of other coworkers who are in the exact same socio-economic hostage crisis.

Gotta wonder if there's some kind of organizational remedy. Like... a collection of workers who could all respond together as a single labor unit to demand a different set of policies on pain of withholding their labor until their demands are met.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've heard of these! They're called onions!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Who in their right mind is going to work without being paid?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

They'll get back pay after the government re-opens. They just can't get paid during the shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Because if they don't do that pro-bono work demanded of them they would be fired.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

People who expect to be paid eventually and still need the healthcare? Other than that...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Fuck musk and fuck everyone Like him

That said: fuck everyone who works for the TSA, bunch of useless dickheads who take out their anger on those trying to fly while objectively failing to catch basic security failures. Much like anyone who works for an insurance company: they can rot for all I care

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (5 children)

fuck everyone who works for the TSA, bunch of useless dickheads

Federal government creates a giant CYA department to account for their massive intelligence failure 23 years ago and now I'm going to be angry at the now-currently-unpaid 23 year old directing me through a metal detector so I don't try and bring a gun onto a high speed high occupancy mid-air aluminum tube because she isn't doing the REAL WORK of playing candy crush in a squad car like a proper police officer.

FFS, I'd argue that TSA is the most useful form of police officer currently on duty. I've been through my local airport a hundred times and I consistently find them to be polite, patient, and stoic in a way street cops never are.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Until working is optional I never blame the lowest in the hierarchy. I've worked some shit jobs of questionable morality in my time because I had to eat and pay rent and couldn't gamble having a roof over my head on a better job coming along.

All airport jobs look shit, I mean that sympathetically.

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

Eating and paying rent ≠ permission to be a power crazy dickhead just because you can (TSA workers).