<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jewelrygoddess:
when we did gate screening, there were selectees. At the gate,the agents sent them over to be screened, if there weren't any, then we picked at random to keep screening until the gate was closed. </font>
Unless you have the SSSSSS on your BP avoiding the "random gate screening" was/is very easy to do. Keep stepping back in line until the Goosestepping Goons are all occupied. Then board. If your traveling with anyone and you have SSSSS on your BP. Hand all your carry-on to your partner. Thus not really being screened. Where is the safety in this? It's just busy work.
The TSA's "in the name of safety" policy is a joke. As is removing your shoes, leaving your luggage unlocked, and showing id/bp more than once within 3-70 feet of security.
It's just busy work.
Barking to FF's (in the elite flyer's security line) that they must remove their laptops, asking each FF with a bag (as they approach their turn) if there is a laptop in there is insulting. It's just busy work.
Being unaccountable for anything that might happen and inspecting luggage without notifying the owner further erodes any respect this joke of an agency might deserve.
Every day that goes by one more person is wiser to the "fleecing" we get from the TSA. Hopefully soon, that next person will be an attorney with time on his hands. Or another Congressperson that doesn't like being groped by dirty gloved, goosestepping goons.
Welcome to FT J-Go......
Please leave your luggage unlocked....