Originally Posted by
TSO_LAS
Originally Posted by
FriendlySkies
Originally Posted by
TSO_LAS
Please don't insult the TSO's, This was not standard when we signed up for this job.
I really do not want to touch some old mans balls. This is the most horrible thing I can imagine.
Then the TSOs need to stand-up for themselves. Stop playing along with the security theater!
If we stand up for ourselves we are fired on the spot and escorted out of the terminal for failing to accomplish our duties.
TSO_LAS, you seem like a sensible person, so don't take this as an attack, but think through what you're saying.
Is groping someone through their clothes (which is, I agree, terrible)
really the "
most horrible thing" you can imagine? Your imagination needs to get some exercise.
What if, next week, the policy is that you have to escort every 5th passenger to a back room, have him strip naked and grope him
without his clothes? What if this includes children?
What if, next month, you have to give a prostrate exam to every male passenger, regardless of age, out of an abundance of caution?
What if, in 2 years time, passengers are no longer allowed to be conscious on their flight, so you're required to administer anaesthesia to every passenger, despite knowing that 0.1% of them will die of an allergic reaction to it?
Somewhere between "what you signed up for", and "the most horrible thing you can imagine if you take a little longer to think about it", there is a line you won't cross. Someday you may be asked to cross that line.