You don't go to the airport expecting that the people who are there to match your ID (you know, the thing with your name printed on it) to your boarding pass (you got it - another thing with your name printed on it) need you to *PRONOUNCE* your name to them. If I hadn't known about this practice, I would have thought the screener had to be joking. Trying to pass this off as a serious security measure makes them look like bar bouncers, which is great if they're bar bouncers. But it's awfully embarrassing to see them behave like bar bouncers while their boss keeps trying to convince the public that they're the nation's professional security force.

I can also see some people misreading this as the screener hitting on the passenger. Outside the pointlessness from a security standpoint, it is really kind of creepy and rude to do this. It may feel to some people that the screener is creating a familiarity that doesn't exist. Others have also raised the legitimate concern that this practice also exposes their name to passengers near them in the line, who may also use it to create a familiarity that doesn't exist.

The whole idea is a fiasco.