Why would you come to work if you weren't getting paid at all? I'm not following that. Because you assume you'll get backpay?
That aside, I simultaneously hold several thoughts about this.
The first is: The TSA probably doesn't need to exist at all in its current form; I'm not aware of any evidence they actually do anything to stop actual threats.
The second is: I have sympathy for the folks who work there, who probably are in it mostly to have a stable and non-controversial government job. I'm sure they're going through it, for political reasons that are not their fault.
The third is: There is zero political incentive for either side to cave on this, that I can see, and as somebody who is generally opposed to the behavior of ICE, I think we as the American public will just have to eat it until they are reined in. I'm including myself in that; this has messed with my travel plans and will continue to do so.
But if I were on the other side of the issue, I think I'd hold the exact same opinion: There is no incentive not to continue the shutdown.
US government is a farce. How can they have a system that completely halts every now and then just because the ones in charge can’t agree?
If this is such a big issue, and it’s repeating: plan ahead.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 18.1 ms ] threadApparently Sea-Tac has a very low TSA absentee rate:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sea-tac-bucks-national-...
That aside, I simultaneously hold several thoughts about this.
The first is: The TSA probably doesn't need to exist at all in its current form; I'm not aware of any evidence they actually do anything to stop actual threats.
The second is: I have sympathy for the folks who work there, who probably are in it mostly to have a stable and non-controversial government job. I'm sure they're going through it, for political reasons that are not their fault.
The third is: There is zero political incentive for either side to cave on this, that I can see, and as somebody who is generally opposed to the behavior of ICE, I think we as the American public will just have to eat it until they are reined in. I'm including myself in that; this has messed with my travel plans and will continue to do so.
But if I were on the other side of the issue, I think I'd hold the exact same opinion: There is no incentive not to continue the shutdown.