Originally Posted by
RadioGirl
+1000
Try to imagine a hospital setting where the janitor, having just cleaned the toilets, "helps out" the doctors by rearranging sterile bandages and instruments in the operating theater. Try to imagine surgeons shrugging and saying "Cross contamination is probably something that happens, it would be impossible in a hospital to completely prevent it. We have training on it regularly to keep awareness up."
I'm sure the patients who got infections would be happy that at least the hospital staff had training to be aware of the cross-contamination.
There is a difference between a sterile location such as a hospital, and a checkpoint in an airport, recognizing that, and the fact that sometimes cross contamination is going to happen in the airport setting is merely facing a reality.
Originally Posted by
nachtnebel
our "friend" is being incredibly banal about this. I guess we're not human beings to TSA clerks. Just animals being put through chutes.
The lack of empathy or conscience is really a pity. It's amazing what a paycheck can get you to accept.
Passengers are simply people trying to get from point A to point B (or C, D or E in some cases), nothing more or less. Treating them like the human beings going on about their business that they are, is what we are supposed to do, and what I do every day at work.