"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."

Whats also insulting is having those same FF'
s keeping their laptops in their bags, then yelling at a TSA screener when he/she has to check it. And their excuse? "You didn't tell me that!"

Or the FF that walks up and says i know what Im doing and then walks thru setting off the walkthru because he/she forgot their cellphone or keys in their pocket. Then getting upset because they don't get a second chance or because, again, "YOU DIDN"T TELL ME THAT!".

Oh and if you want to give me some lame example of how people only do that unless their FF"s. Had a FF that everyone at my checkpoint hates having to screen, ring. He pretty much accused me of picking on him when he rang. So we get to the wanding area.

When I screen his shoes, they ring and I ask him to take them off. He throws them into the ground nearly hitting me in the bounce ( I had to move back from the guy not to be hit). He then goes on to ***** me out about how his shoe never set that machine off.

At this point my attitude went from just listening to the guy to losing it because he started to insult and about that time I noticed the cell phone on his belt.

So I told the guy to look at his waistline. He does and finally notices his phone. I pretty much told the guy off when he tried to apologize to me to and was lucky not to get a complaint form about it because my choose words werent exaclty the best.

You may be a FF CarmelGreg and might remember everything you might have to do, but not ever FF does and we get a lot of rings because they leave change in their pockets because they just bought coffee or they leave palm pilots they just got in jacket pockets and so on.