And we all know TSOs are never either.
Sorry, you sound like a perfectly reasonable person, however a great many of your coworkers are anything but. These forums abound with first hand experience contrary to what you are saying. In fact, one yesterday in the mega-thread on the new measures talks about a TSO actually stealing credit card numbers from someone's wallet, and subsequent fraudulent authorizations on said card. (In full view of the pax and a supervisor and above the pax's protests).