Originally Posted by
chollie
...[snipped for brevity] To pass a 16-week semester of English 100 (nickname 'Bonehead English' - and remember, we're talking a university course), the student had to be able to write (final exam) one coherent three-to-five sentence paragraph with no more than one spelling error....[snipped for brevity]
Whoa. I could NEVER pass that one. I like to flatter myself that my grammar is above average, but my spelling is attrosh... atroc... my spelling is horrible.
Originally Posted by
spacev1986
they ask pretty much anything...from mundane things like where your headed to something silly like what your favorite sport is or what color you like. The point isnt the answers you give to the questions, its the behavior you present while answering the questions.
The point that many of us have tried to make, which many others either refuse to believe or don't care about, is that "where are you going?" is NOT a mundane or innocuous question. It's one which invades my privacy. As such, my being allowed through the checkpoint with normal, non-elevated, non-punitive screening should NEVER be contingent upon my answering such a privacy-invading question.
And if the behavior is really the important thing, and not the answers to the questions, why not ask random questions instead? "How many days in a week? How many fingers do you see? Who was the first president of the United States? Who was vice president under John Quincy Adams?"
Originally Posted by
spacev1986
good points. Anyways, ive said pretty much all ive had to say here... just be patient, remember alot of us are just as frustrated as the pax are. Changes are coming, its just taking time.
The system went to crap pretty fast. Why is it that change for the worse happens overnight, but de-crapifying things always seems to take time and require patience? How difficult would it be to simply STOP stinkin' up the place with BDO, STOP using AIT scanners without warrant, probable cause, or articulable suspicion, bring back the HHMTs that were used for decades before AIT was foisted upon us, STOP interrogating travelers, and POST the rules at each checkpoint, and TELL the TSA employees to follow them?
It could be done in a week. All it takes is someone at the top with some guts - and some respect for both the Constitution and the dignity and civil rights of the traveling public.
Shya, right! And monkeys might fly outta my butt!
Originally Posted by
spacev1986
personally, im hoping to get into the agriculture business soon and leave behind the hussle and bussle of the airport.
safe flying guys. ^
Well, should you choose to walk away from 4 years experience as a TSO, not to mention abandoning your degree in Security Studies (was that two years of your life or four?), and go to work on a farm, I wish you luck.
There's nothing like a farm. Nothing like being around animals. Fixing things. There's nothing like being in the fields with the corn and the winter wheat. Greenest stuff you ever saw.