<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by LexPassenger:
The boss might like it -- funny how that works.
To screeners who post here: I might like you personally, but, sorry, I despise anybody whose only alternative for employment is torturing fellow citizens. You could be delivering pizzas, or selling shoes, or greeting folks at WalMart.
Instead, most of you have that job 'cause you love lording it over others. You enjoy telling us that something idiotic is for our own good. You are, as pointed out above, very good at parroting "it's just our orders".
How many of you have failed to be hired by local police departments? That would be telling, but probably an unachievable statistic.
Your job does not make us more secure. It probably makes us less secure, by making airline finances more precarious. What will make us more secure is passengers who no longer believe passivity is the right response to terror, and information systems that can flag dangerous individuals.
Nothing in the current airport security system is better than random ineffectuality. That would be much cheaper, eh?
If you, personally, are not like that, you are extraordinary.</font>
Yet another person who knows nothing about the average screener. As a retired USAF Survival Instructor, I know something about torturing people. The TSA is hardly torture, it may be inconvienient, and assinine at times, but hardly torture. As for this being my only alternative for employment? hardly, I left a better paying job to do this. I enjoy it, and am not on some kind of "power trip" although I am sure that there are some out there that are. That is true in every profession. Does the TSA make flying safer? I don't know. I have a rock out in my yard that I swear keeps elephants from getting close to my house. I challenge you to dispute that it does not work. It is impossible to prove a negative.
For what it is worth, I have never had a desire to be a police officer, nope, not this guy. I don't particularly like police officers, nor do I know any.