I flew out of DTW today for a business trip. One big mistake I made was I arrived a little later at the airport than I should have so I had to play along with the Behavior detection mumbo jumbo.
Clerk: " What is the purpose of your travel"
"How many days will you be in XXX"
"who do you work for?"
"Let me see your itenarary"
"Let me see your hotel confirmation"
"let me see your employee id"
"How many long have you been working for XXX"
"Which school did you graduate from?"
At this point, I refused to pull out my employee id and told her that it was buried deep inside my carry-on. This lady was wearing a jacket that said "TSA Inspector" by the way. She insisted and I stood my ground as I didn't want to dig all the stuff from my carry-ons. She asked for my business card instead and let me on my way.
This interrogation left a very bitter taste in my mouth as it is none of the TSA's God damned business which school I attended and what sort of work history I have.
On my next trip in January, I'm going to arrive very early and do a complete opt-out of this chatdown, and tell them to go screw themselves.
Its bad enough that these guards are asking questions. Now they are demanding papers as well that are unrelated to your flight!?
No way will I show them my work id, hotel receipts or any other documents other than boarding passes, id's etc.