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Old Dec 7, 2010 | 7:54 pm
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C'mon guys, this is over the top.

Some of them are creeps, for sure. Others are decent people who got more than they bargained for on the job. If later on they find out that they were lied to about the scanners, then they are victims too. None of us deserve to be lied to by the bosses in power.

I do agree that some of them aren't happy and take it out on the pax ("if you wouldn't opt out, I wouldn't have to feel you up, this is disgusting, I'll teach you a leson"). I believe there are quite a few out there like that and I have no sympathy for them.

Don't like it? Neither do I. You want me to suck it up, be polite, submit the complaint forms and write my congressman or don't fly? I think you should do the same: suck it up, be polite, submit the complaint forms and write your congressman or don't come to work.

Certainly there are too many complicit TSOs. As far as I'm concerned, if one TSO is snickering at me or gawking while I'm getting frisked, it is the obligation of the frisker to stop, look at the loser TSO and say loudly and clearly 'Yes? Are you watching for a reason or are you supposed to be doing something useful?'

If TSO-A sees TSO-B doing something inappropriate or unprofessional and doesn't call him/her out on it, well, then I don't have any sympathy. In my eyes, that makes TSO-A just as guilty as TSO-B.
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