Originally Posted by
TSORon
At the checkpoint I am probably the nicest guy you will ever meet, but in forums like this where someone claims that they have been wronged when it is obvious that they don’t know what they are talking about then I am going to call them on it. When faced with stupidity, I’ll call it stupid. When faced with (one of my personal favorite terms) intentional ignorance, I’ll call it stupid.
But...but...that is not how the TS/S Forum works.
Here, the posters get to use all kinds of insults about the TSA, ranging from the mild "idiots" to the more vile "perverts", but as long as they are venting their spleens because they were required to walk through a metal detector that is perfectly acceptable.
As a TSA employee, you are expected not to wipe off the crap that is dumped on your head in TS/S but instead to ask for more. You certainly are not allowed to brand a remark as "stupid" -- even when it is incredibly so.
Yes, I have had some minor problems with the TSA -- anyone who travels enough has -- but I have also had problems with other government agencies, department stores, educational institutions, hotels, and journalists. That is life -- nobody ever promised that everything in life will go just the way that we would like it.
Children learn that. Adults know that. Those adults who were incapable of learning it go to bulletin boards and complain, over and over and over again, giving themselves the excellent opportunity of showing how "superior" they are.