Originally Posted by SDF_Traveler
Reminds me of a trip through EWR B last year.
#1: ID checker, checks BP & ID
#2: TSA Agent #1, checks BP & ID again. She states to keep BP out for two additional checks.
I ask her why I had to show my ID again, her response "
She is hired by the airlines and we don't trust her". I respond, "Then why do I have to show my BP two more times - does the next person not trust you, and the last one not trust anyone?"
Needless to say:
#3: TSA Agent #2: Checks BP (at other side of WTMD)
#4: TSA Agent #3: Checks BP yet again
Total checks: Four
Bloody ridicilous. Job security, I suppose.
SDF_Traveler
I keep telling you folks, a BIG part of the TSA is a GIANT JOBS PROGRAM!! The jettisoning of the private screeners left so many without jobs that there was HUGE pressure from cities, unions and other worthless hangers-on to create jobs for these reprobates in the new TSA. Those that passed the background checks largely got hired on.
It is this stupidity, along with the grunters, the gum-crackers and the complaineres that gets my ire up at the TSA. There **ARE** a few thinking, breathing intellects that really are trying to do well, a couple of them are members of thos forum, but I have met precious few of them and a lot of the jobs program types.
How do you determine a jobs program type? If that person would get FIRED from ANY private sector job for their behavior as a TSA screener, that's a jobs program type.
--Paul