Overreacting is our game

We got word that if any Officer misses an MPT test bag, that Officer is now off X-ray pending a one hour session of TRX and a half hour talk with a terminal manager. Ok, if this isn't a sign that Covenant is panicking, we don't know what is. The word is that this ever brilliant idea came from the one and only Donnie Filbert. Perhaps this is a reaction to Covenant not getting their contract rubber stamped and only extended.

What we want to know is exactly what that discussion with a terminal manager is going to entail? Every single manager has not been ATSA certified for several years now. So how is someone who never works the X-ray and hasn't been certified for several years going to be able to give guidance to an Officer that fails one of these tests? Frankly, this just reeks of intimidation. In other words, you better perform better or we're going to start threatening you with discipline or worse yet, termination.

Imagine that you do fail one of these tests. You now can no longer operate the X-ray. You then have to go up to the training lab and do an hour of TRX. And then comes the meeting with a terminal manager. You'll get called in to their office. You're afraid of being punished. They start interrogating you as though you're a perp being accused of a crime. How in the hell does that improve anything? How does that make security better? What the hell is a manager going to say to that Officer? WHEN WILL THIS STOP???!!!

Covenant, get your stuff together! The intimidation factor that you have been so reliant on all these years is starting to deteriorate. It's not working and we're not going to sit idly by and let you people get away with it. You may have local TSA in your back pocket, but we're on to you. Enough is enough!