Originally Posted by
Superguy
It'd be nice to have a nice experience. Some airports are better than others. It's really hard to have a "nice" experience with the shoe carnival, etc.
That’s because you let it get to you. It’s a part of the experience, take it for what it is, a necessity of one want to fly in today’s world. Neither good nor bad, it just is. If you want to be upset with someone, be upset with Richard Reid.
Now you start to see what we're saying. A lot of screeners that post on here don't travel much. They tend to get the "tunnel vision" where how it's done at their airport is how it's done elsewhere. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Some places are certainly better than others, and have reps on here accordingly. TSA as a whole (procedures) are complained about at some airports. At others, it's that AND the screeners.
Not really, I just had to get to a part in the various conversations where I could mention it. I have traveled quite a bit over the years (ex-military) and have had to deal with both the civilian security as well as TSA. The Germans are pretty hard to deal with, some who complain here should go through the checkpoint in Frankfurt. It would open their eye’s.
I'd be careful with that blind trust. While it's nice that you trust your employer, do you trust them enough that they wouldn't throw you under the bus and leave you on your own if TSA was sued or if something bad were to happen?
Name me a big company that wouldn’t? It’s a fact in our world now days, and a part of the whole employment experience sad though it may be. The thing is to not vary from the written, and if you have no choice then you get the OK from your supervisor to do it. That puts the monkey on their back.
TSA, as part of the government, has sovereign immunity meaning they can only be sued if they consent to it. It's easy for them to blame the screener as a rogue screener overstepping his bounds or as an incompetent screener. Thus as others have said, by keeping you in the dark, it makes it much easier for TSA as an organization to distance itself from its screeners and throwing the screener under the bus. Ignorance of the law won't be a valid defense and TSA will probably disavow any knowledge of "asking" the employee to do something. Plausible deniability.
Sorry, not buying that. The government gets sued all the time. 4000 times a day. For things they did do, didn’t do, and might do. The government is the great cash cow, along with being the great satin.