TSA screener Margo Lauree-Grant, 41, is the latest TSA employee to be arrested for theft or other crimes at an airport security area. Lauren-Grant is accused of stealing a $7,500 Diamond Master watch from a Canadian traveler after he placed it in a plastic bin. To make matters worse, Lauree-Grant is accused of then destroying the watch when security officials began to investigate.
The traveler alerted security in Terminal 7 at JFK Airport and both TSA officials and Port Authority cops began reviewing video. Lauree-Grant reportedly became nervous and panicked — going to an area where she “smashed the watch into pieces.”
This is the second felony arrest at LaGuardia with TSA staff in a week. The prior week, a TSA supervisor at LaGuardia Airport was arrested for convincing a South Korean college student to go into a bathroom for additional “screening” where Maxi Oquendo then allegedly sexually molested her. The supervisor is now charged with sex abuse, forcible touching, unlawful imprisonment and official misconduct.
Would it be fair to question the overall management of the LaGuardia TSA at this point, at least with regard to hiring practices?
Grammar Nazis don’t need no stinkin’ union 🙂
And you are right. I’m retired and today manning the phones for my husband’s business, while also making a triple batch of spaghetti sauce, so I am at lose ends today.
As to “fair and equitable” in wages. That is a very nebulous concept and subject to interpretation. Wages are set to reflect the skill level of the worker, their importance in the business, their experience and other factors. What is a fair and equitable wage for someone who is taking your order at a McDonald’s (and who usually can’t even do THAT right) versus a fair and equitable wage for a master carpenter or a secretary or the CEO of a business.
None of these jobs or people are equal to each other nor or they of similar value. Economically if you over pay your employees beyond their value the results have to be factored into the cost of your final product or service. When you price yourself out of the market by expending more in any one area of the business, then you will fail. Your employees will no longer have jobs and everyone loses.
Envy is a very real and legitimate social concern
Envy is a sin and remains a sin as long as you don’t act on it. The actions that people take, such as stealing from others are both a sin and a social issue. Society can’t punish people for sins (that is supposedly God’s paygrade job) but society can punish people for stealing.
Who has time to read or check spelling or grammar? Those damn watches are taking over the world, inspiring envy and greed as they go. My mind is focused on the real threat to society–flashy watches.
bam bam: Speaking of delusions, you have yet to offer anything more than fictions to show that unions are bad.
DBQ: Unlike you, I actually have things to do, so proofreading isn’t really a priority right now. It cracks me up the way people harp on Prof Turley for his miscues, as if all he’s got to do with his time is check his posts for spelling and grammar. Hey! I hear there’s an opening on the Language Police Force. Too bad it’s not unionized.
bam bam: Your assumption that I was not, nor am not now, a member of a union shows some rather poor logical thinking.
Envy is a very real and legitimate social concern. It’s why the Chinese government raised the minimum wage, they were worried about widespread unrest. I don’t say it’s a criminal defense, but as a societal justification for ensuring a fair and equitable wage for American workers, absolutely. And unions are the surest way to achieve that balance.
Now let me pause a moment and wait for the overheated responses to my use of the terms “fair and equitable”.
@ T. Hall
your = ownership of something
you’re = a contraction of two words you and are
Next…..there, their, they’re
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Which conflict with one another. . .
Karen S
Someone doesn’t believe the story about your grandfather because his small mind can’t contain two ideas conflict with one another. His narrative about the continued glories of unions is shot. All accounts or events, which don’t coincide with his stilted views, are lies. There is only one true thing: watches, especially expensive, flashy ones, inspire envy and ask to be stolen. They are the culprits.
DBQ: Your making false equivalencies. *Swat* Sharp single to right! Just for the record, I never believed blaming the victim was morally acceptable, but I know it’s been used successfully in the past.
bam bam: You call me an idiot, stupid, naive. That’s response way out of proportion to my comment, and I can see by the way you’re carrying on that your probably not capable of getting better. In fact, you sound delusional. So be it. Best of luck.
People who blame watches for inspiring envy and causing theft reveal their twisted and confused logic, as expected.
karen s.: I don’t believe the story about your grandfather. Maybe he made it up, maybe you made it up, whatever. Perhaps you and bam bam can collude on a book sometime.
All she knew was that it looked expensive and she was overcome envy. When it comes down to it, that’s what a $7500 watch is supposed to inspire.
So by positing this justification for committing a crime….. by flashing an expensive watch the victim is to blame?
Does T. Hall also believe that a woman who is wearing a short skirt and showing her boobs is asking to be raped? When it comes down to it flashing your body at men is meant to inspire them to force you to have sex. Right?
Really?
I would also point out that workers at the Volkswagon plant in Tennessee attempted to form a Euro style union, which the company actually endorsed, but they were thwarted by a dishonest disinformation campaign by Sen. Bob Corker.
Corker actively deep-sixed a union that would have benefited the citizens of his own state because it would have served as an example of unions working.
isaac: If you don’t think that companies are still treating their employees oppressively then you’re the one who should be writing fiction. Amazon is a prime example (pun intended) of an oppressive company shamelessly abusing their workers. Walmart is another classic example.
It is a sheer fact, one you are not entitled to disclaim or deny, that both the middle class and the standard of living rose in this country during the forties, fifties, and sixties as a result of increased unionization of the American workplace.
Unions are fighting for the good of the country by trying to ensure that workers have enough money to continue spending. There efforts are attempting to forestall another Great Depression, which came about in large part as a result of a concentration of wealth at the top.
Should be:
No personal experience.
Lol. On my phone.
Last line should be:
I don’t rant about subjects, like you, where I have personal experience.
Nothing in my comments would appear to be overheated, as you describe. The eye that distorts, distorts all–an expression which aptly describes your obviously sanitized and misguided view as to how unions operate in the real world. I don’t claim to have any knowledge of MLB players or the union. None. Contrary to you, I’m at least honest about that fact. I wouldMore honest than the rants of someone, like you, with no experience
I wonder if someone can explain why Germany does so well with it’s unions.