Originally Posted by TSASuper
1. Documentation into the screeners official personnel file (OPF). Screener is retrained on deficiencies and returned to duty.
2. Screener placed on administrative while the legal department and FSD staff determine if the offense is grounds for termination. Sometimes, the process is lengthy. The end result is either documentation into the OPF or termination.
3. Screener is terminated immediately. This has to be a severe offense in which the screener could not be able to dispute.
OK. Good information.
So in your experience with TSA, would a screener instructing a pax to take his pants off be ground for termination? In my opinion it should be grounds for your option #3.
If so, what evidence would be required? Video of the mooning? (not going to happen because private screening areas aren't videotaped in my understanding) Word of the passenger? (not likely to be believed because screener will deny requiring pax to take off pants and say pax overreacted) Screener dumb enough to admit to it? (unlikely) Second screener as witness? (unlikely screeners will tattle)
Maybe witness by a LEO? Can I request that a LEO be a witness to my private screening if it ever occurs? Sounds like a good idea.