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I'm still in on the job training, so I'm really not _yet_ a TSA person, strictly speaking, I guess, even though I'm getting paid. But, this is what's been keeping me from posting, lately. I hate hate hate working nights. I get so messed up - can't remember what day it is, feel nauseous all the time...:P I feel like I spend all my time getting ready to sleep or waking up, or at work. Supposedly when training is over there won't be an overnight shift anymore, but training keeps getting extended because for some reason we're not getting out hours in as quickly as we should. Originally they said 60 hours and I figured it would be a week and a half. Now it's been 2 weeks and they're saying it may last until the end of the month. The deal is, we get checkboxes marked off for each half hour we spend on a particular part of the job, but if the trainers have us doing other things (like, question and answer sessions, or frikking time sheets - we spend most of our shift yesterday filling out government time sheets) then we don't get boxes checked off. :P!! *rolls eyes* Basically, as we now find out, it's all down to our team lead person, who, like the rest of us, is in OJT. Obviously, to start with, he had no idea how to organize us, how to push for getting us our time on each position, and how to mark down the time we had done on each position.
Okay, enough with the bitch session for today. There's been some fun stuff about working the night shift. We have a much smaller group than all the other shifts, and we're getting to know each other well and work together smoothly, I can't help but like this.:) Not to mention they're mostly smart and fun people - I spend a lot of time laughing at work, and this is good. :) Perhaps tomorrow I'll start writing down the TSA jokes and amusing stories. One of my classmates says she's writing a TSA diary, though she's thinking of it in terms of publishing a book "someday" - like, when it's not all classified. Right now she's keeping track of who says what, which day. This probably reads something like, though not exactly (I'm sure I have dates and names wrong)
"9/17 - per Wayne: Babies will be held by parent 3 inches away from the chest when walking through the metal detector."
"9/18 - per training update as read by Todd: Babies will be held any way the parent wants when walking through metal detector."
"9/17 - per training literature, as read by Scott: nail files are permissable items."
"9/18 - per training update as read by Todd: long nail files are useable as stabbing weapons, therefor not permissable."
"9/19 - per training update as read by Todd: Upon further research, previous update was superceeded by the TSA website - all nail files are permissable."
And it goes like that, _every_day_, there's changes and updates and the trainers can't get in sync with each other, let alone the people who are going to be our supervisors when the trainers leave. yaaaaaaa!!!!!!! As one of my classmates muttered, "Life is an adventure, especially when you're working for a newly created government agency." So you see, we _have_ to laugh, otherwise we'd be hysterical right now. Oh, wait, we _are_ hysterical.
Best yet, I've been in training - supposedly _paid_ training - for 3 weeks now, and have not received any pay.
Okay, enough with the bitch session for today. There's been some fun stuff about working the night shift. We have a much smaller group than all the other shifts, and we're getting to know each other well and work together smoothly, I can't help but like this.:) Not to mention they're mostly smart and fun people - I spend a lot of time laughing at work, and this is good. :) Perhaps tomorrow I'll start writing down the TSA jokes and amusing stories. One of my classmates says she's writing a TSA diary, though she's thinking of it in terms of publishing a book "someday" - like, when it's not all classified. Right now she's keeping track of who says what, which day. This probably reads something like, though not exactly (I'm sure I have dates and names wrong)
"9/17 - per Wayne: Babies will be held by parent 3 inches away from the chest when walking through the metal detector."
"9/18 - per training update as read by Todd: Babies will be held any way the parent wants when walking through metal detector."
"9/17 - per training literature, as read by Scott: nail files are permissable items."
"9/18 - per training update as read by Todd: long nail files are useable as stabbing weapons, therefor not permissable."
"9/19 - per training update as read by Todd: Upon further research, previous update was superceeded by the TSA website - all nail files are permissable."
And it goes like that, _every_day_, there's changes and updates and the trainers can't get in sync with each other, let alone the people who are going to be our supervisors when the trainers leave. yaaaaaaa!!!!!!! As one of my classmates muttered, "Life is an adventure, especially when you're working for a newly created government agency." So you see, we _have_ to laugh, otherwise we'd be hysterical right now. Oh, wait, we _are_ hysterical.
Best yet, I've been in training - supposedly _paid_ training - for 3 weeks now, and have not received any pay.