Originally Posted by Cholula
As somebody explained on another thread, this appears to be a way to employ folks who would otherwise be jobless.
I hadn't heard this explanation before but since I can't think of any other rational reason for checking a BP 4 times within 30', I guess I have to agree with the OP's conclusion.
EWR Terminal "A" (aka "The Dumpster"), early this year, weekday afternoon.
Non-english speaking, grunting "Prospect Airport Services" plant life look at ticket, hands it back to me, grunts (LITERALLY GRUNTS!!) and I walk down the stasined carpeting into the dumpster.
As I hear the TSA cyborg yelling "ALL SHOES MUST GO THROUGH THE X-ray" another TSA scholar asks for my ticket and boarding pass. THis is within sight of the grunting freak at the top of the hallway.
TSA employee #2 whose sole duty seems to be shoving the things into the aperture of the x-ray machine says "Keep your boarding passes in your hands. THis person is less than five feet and in full view of TSA person #1.
On the other side of the WTMD, 8 feet from TSA person#1 and 5 feet from TSA person #3, TSA Nobel Laureate #3 demands my boarding pass having just watched two people check it.
I habd her the boarding pass as she cracks her gum in an open-mouthed, gape-jawed torture of that chewing gum that would make Mike Ditka's face hurt, I said "Just curious, I already shoed this to two other people, including another TSA employee. Why do I have to do this again?
Here's the socratic response, VERBATIM in its native hip-hop:
"I not deh. Day not me."
Glad to know that the TSA's employees at EWR are indeed equipped to speak the King's English to the taxpaying passengers whose hard-earned money employs them.
With sincere apologies to Bart and Eyecue, who are examples of actual thinking people at the TSA, ARE THERE NO STANDARDS AT ALL FOR WHO THEY HIRE?? How many more of these clods who exhibit less than an 8th grade education do we have to suffer??
--Paul