[Oscar the Grouch]

Looking through the TSA website today, I ran across this little "gem" in the TSA Weekly newsletter from 4/27/09. This appears to be from some HR person named "Gale" who is clearly exhorting the troops to strive for bigger and better things. Unfortunately, after read the whole memo, I really could not decipher its meaning. I submit this to you all a prime example of Class A Prime Government meaningless jargon. This memo has every hackneyed phrase and cliche in the book.

Your tax dollars hard at work at the TSA!

[BobL]

All that means is that the TSA people were NOT working the airports, and instead people had to wait in HUGE lines, in some cases.

[SERKIT]

So next week as you go about your security mission “ENGAGE! – connect with yourself, your team, and your environment in order to create greater security.”

In other words....GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF! The TSA has been the most successful welfare-to-work program to date with a stellar (!?!) record of Workers Comp claims.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

It doesn’t really say anything other than “rah rah team.”
But then it’s a government agency - do you expect more than that?

[magellan]

"While the front line workforce was successfully completing training, the Evolution Team was very busy soliciting feedback through focus groups, pilot testing new tools for sustainment, communicating with Evolution network participants and making airport support visits, to be ready for this next step. And on their own, many local leaders began immediately developing sustainment teams, determining best practices and moving forward to design and implement Evolution sustainment tools."

Your tax dollars at work.

[LomanBill]

Newspeak Dictionary, TSA Edition?

[MrBambaLaMamba]

"Senior Leadership Team" a term dripping with assclownery.
When your executives start refering to themselves as the SLT run for the exits or you will bear the brunt of their idiocy and suffer.

[admiral52]

TSA = Thousands Standing Around

- - - The Admiral

[garandgal]

Actually, it appears that “Gale” is the head of the entire thing. Here’s her bio, written in the same style:

http://www.tsa.gov/who_we_are/people/bios/gale_rossides_bio.shtm

[SkyPilot]

I believe it was Plato...No, excuse me, I mean Play-Doh...who stuck to the wall when he said one must not put one's transvestite in jeopardy. I salute our agents and expectorate the kaopectate of....the mind...to which.....I inseminate the manifestation of masturbation and promise to get rid of my own personal backgammon, so I will I illiterate it.

[Fast Ed97]

I travel alot and don't have too many problems with the TSA= I'm not sure what airports the rudeness factor is prevalent. However, it does seem at the smaller airports it gets kind of ridiculous. I recently waited in a long line at Louisville airport where they had only one checkpoint open out of 4. The checkpoint that was open had over 6 people working at it! They literally had someone performing a job and another person to watch him/her perform the job.

That being said. Instead of blaming the actual TSA agents, the blame goes squarely on Bush- who's bright idea it was to federalize airport screeners. That began my dislike of him and his administration. Moreover, it was under his watch that all these cheesy rules went into effect (plastic ziplock bags, 3oz liquids, take off the shoes, laptop in separate bin, show the boarding pass to two people ect.)

[packrat35]

Can’t too upset at them, as just about every large company in America has similar BS going on. I know my job does and I don’t work for the government.

They call it LEAN and 5S and assorted other nonsense.