Sounds to me if your superiors have not provided for gloves at a given station then they are telling you that gloves or not needed for that particular job.
Seems that some work flow studies need to be done to determine what supplies, people and so on are needed at each position.
I can do that for a small contract fee of say 20mil or so.
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Why would anyone working a checkpoint not be properly prepared for typical situations?
That would be like a tow truck driver not bring all his tow equipement with him. A mechanic starting a job without his tools. A fireman without his turn-out coat.
Why can't TSA do things professionally?
Do rampers change their gloves before they pickup the next suitcase & place it on the conveyor? Does the ramper in the cargo hold change his gloves before he pulls the next suitcase off the conveyor & stows it in the plane?
If your ID's are being checked at a bar, do they change gloves between ID's?
Would you even think of asking for a glove change in the these situations, assuming they're even wearing gloves in the first place?
Given the current pandemic scare, I think there are more important things that can be done at the checkpoints, e.g. using their surplus labor to keep the checkpoints & tubs continuously disinfected instead of sending them out on gate rapes and mind-reading expeditions.
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Ikea Billy 3-shelf bookcase: $34.99 retail
Nude-o-scope: $170,000.00 each
Sorry, I'm not buying the "we don't have enough money" argument.
Hopefully governement agencies are barred from purchasing furniture at Ikea. The assembly time (and re-assembly time to get it right) would be wasteful of public funds.
And yes, future purchases of Ikea furniture is banned in our house.
Do rampers change their gloves before they pickup the next suitcase & place it on the conveyor? Does the ramper in the cargo hold change his gloves before he pulls the next suitcase off the conveyor & stows it in the plane?
If your ID's are being checked at a bar, do they change gloves between ID's?
Would you even think of asking for a glove change in the these situations, assuming they're even wearing gloves in the first place?
Given the current pandemic scare, I think there are more important things that can be done at the checkpoints, e.g. using their surplus labor to keep the checkpoints & tubs continuously disinfected instead of sending them out on gate rapes and mind-reading expeditions.
Mike:
Great point & I think we know the answers to the above questions
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Do rampers change their gloves before they pickup the next suitcase & place it on the conveyor? Does the ramper in the cargo hold change his gloves before he pulls the next suitcase off the conveyor & stows it in the plane?
True, but the ramper doesnt rummage through someone's dirty undershorts, pick their nose, then fondle my toothbrush to see if it might explode.
Why would anyone working a checkpoint not be properly prepared for typical situations?
Why can't TSA do things professionally?
The situation presented is not "typical", thats why.
As for "professionally", well opinions vary. From individual to individual, and company to company, as well as country to country. Your idea of "professional" is obviously different than TSA's, and while that is not a bad thing it is certainly not enough to make claim of unprofessional behavior.
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Is it that tough to do what I see other TSAers do....carry a spare pair in a pocket?
Are you not one of the folks here that complained that you didnt know what we had in our pockets and therefore would never accept us using gloves stored/carried in a pocket? I may be wrong, but I dont think so.
In any case, there have been enough folks here complaining about us using gloves stored in our pockets to make your point less than useful.
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This is a no win. The gloves in the pocket issue is moot. The gloves in the box are not "sterile." They are not supposed to be. How is any person going to be able to prove that the contamination came from the gloves? You could be standing in line and someone sneezes and the vapor lands on your carry on. That is more likely to contaminate your luggage than the gloves. Airports are dirty: The rollers in front of the x-ray, the tubs in the xray line, the lead curtains, the rollers after, etc.. When cowboy boots are put in the xray and they are fresh from the corral, you get all kinds of cross contamination and you think the divestor at the front of the x-ray should change gloves? That is just wrong. Answer to supervisor for that? What are you going to say? "He touched my bag!"
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