Originally Posted by
gsoltso
Your point of view is different than mine, there are viable reasons for what TSA does, I have seen both sides of the story, seen the screening protocols that are in the SOP and are done here everyday, and there is no lying from my view.
You have the overwhelming advantage of having seen the SOP, which is forbidden to us - the passengers - who're expected to follow the TSOs utterly nonsensical orders without question under threat of arrest and/or fines while being barked at for not knowing today's procedure because we're not allowed to know it.
Add that to the simple fact that there are entire airports with 70%-100% failure rates of detecting the Red Team tests, and the SOP becomes utterly meaningless except as a sideshow attempt to "prove" to the American public that the federal government is here to "protect" them while revealing that the entire program is utterly incapable of doing so.
Claiming "success" at detecting "dangerous objects" for confiscating pocketknives and embroidery scissors is ridiculous. The passengers will not allow someone to attempt a hijacking with a mere knife ever again.
Claiming "success" at detecting "contraband" and turning people over to LEOs for a mere joint, or even a "pipe" with zero residue is even more ridiculous.
I've quit two jobs in the past ten years because of policies I didn't like. I just changed jobs to insure I don't have to travel any more, too.
If you've genuinely complained to your management about procedures you found objectionable, then you have my apologies and my sincere condolences for being unqualified for any other line of work - or you'd already be in it by now, wouldn't you?