Originally Posted by
chollie
Fortunately for some, this sort of thing would never happen at GSO.
Unfortunately for some of us, it still happens regularly at many other airports that we fly out of.
Given HQ's actions in this instance and others, I would suggest that your personal opinions are very much that - just your personal opinions, based on a very atypical TSA airport experience at GSO. They do not reflect what most of us witness at checkpoints or read about on the evening news.
You (allegedly) wouldn't confiscate my nitro pills, either. It's your opinion that they are permitted, but the official record (website) and multiple airport employees, including many above your reported pay grade, pointed out that you are wrong.
Sadly, if a situation like this did happen at GSO, I have no reason to believe your management would handle it any differently.
I am not going to say that something like this could *never* happen at GSO - that would be unrealistic based upon human nature. I have no reason to believe that it would happen based upon my experiences here and the way I have seen my co-workers engage passengers on a regular basis.
The TSA website has consistently produced a result about nitro pills indicating that they are allowed - I have included the link that gives you the green go indicator before, several times. As for your interaction with other TSA employees that are not up to speed on the SOP and create a situation where you feel that you are unable to take the nitro with you - I apologize, they are wrong and you should never find yourself in a situation where it is not allowed. If it happens again, then I certainly hope that you will file complaints until you get satisfaction.
I can tell you right here, right now, if you carried nitro pills with you into my checkpoint, it would recieve nothing more than a cursory glance by myself to insure it was consistent with the hundreds of other nitro bottles I have seen here over the years. Other folks that follow the SOP would do the same - anyone that does anything other than a cursory inspection (to make certain it is a little pill bottle with pills in it), is wrong. I cant say it any plainer than that.