Reply #89: For what it's worth, the TSA doesn't want me. [View All]

[obiwan]

I took their standardized personality profile/ English usage/ cognizance test for airport baggage screener, and failed it.

This test was very similar to other tests I have taken over the last 15 years. I have never "failed" one of these tests.

The test was a scheduled 3 hour computer test, which I was easily able to complete in 1 hour and 15 minutes.

When I called for results, they would only say that I had failed- not what my score was, not where I was strong and where I wasn't. The questions and problems were on the level that a 12 year old could answer.

Can you say, "federal watch list?"

Guess they don't want dedicated, intelligent employees- just obedient monkeys.

By the way, I am currently employed in an aerospace project involving one of the Pentagon's largest contractors and a weapons system familiar to all. The acronym is meant to be clever, but among the contractors, the job is known as "Operation Clusterfuck."

If private concerns operated like this, we would all be living out of teepees and eating jerky. Maybe not such a bad thing.