Originally Posted by Spiff
In some areas, I do know more than you do because I travel a lot more than you do. I am on the receiving end of your agency's ridiculous, un-American policies of harassment and I'm a pretty quick study. I have no qualms at all about sharing my experiences in the hopes that others can avoid this idiocy.
Sorry if you don't like to hear it, but those in charge of the TSA are indeed thugs, and that's putting it mildly. Whether you feel that the insults directed towards management also apply to you is your call. And if you're getting treated so poorly at the airport, hasn't it dawned upon you that many people despise what your agency is doing? Perhaps a better application of your talents elsewhere is in order.
I'm happy with my job. I've seen the TSA go from crawling to walking. It's getting better. I do my job well, and take pride in what I do. I work with many others that feel this way.
I've said it before, but I don't expect everybody to agree with what we do. It's a necessary evil. When I was in the Army, I was told that I had to sacrifice my freedom to preserve it for others. I've sacrificed my freedom before, and I really don't think it's asking too much of passengers to sacrifice a little of their own freedom to ensure the safety of themselves as well as others.
You think our checkpoints are bad? We had a Serbian woman come through our checkpoint not too long ago and she was in hysterics and crying. Shaking too. We took her to the side and after she calmed down a little, she said that it wasn't us she was afraid of. She was just having flashbacks of the horrors of other checkpoints she had been through in her life.