Originally Posted by
coachrowsey
I just got word from my son who is a part time Starbucks employee(he's a college senior) that the TSA jerks are forcing employees to go through the "strip search machines" here & it's taking forever causing some of them to be late for work. He said they are telling them they have to do it. He did many of them have cussed out the TSA jerks^ I told him again to tell these people what they can do that they can't make them go through.

NO ONE can be *forced* to go through the x-ray - they can ask, your son and his colleagues can refuse and be patted down. If it becomes an issue, he/they should escalate to the TSA manager on the spot, and if necessary, get a group together and escalate to the airport director and FSD in person.
They were not forced - they voluntarily submitted to intimidation.