Originally Posted by red456
It's the same thing with some TSA employees. There are published procedures that screeners are supposed to be following; many of us are just trying to make them do their job according to their SOP.
the SOP is not published. Even the published hints that are on the TSA website are not revealing of the SOP.
When a pax refuses to remove his/her non-profile shoes and then is sent to secondary because of that, it is nothing but a power play by the screener and does nothing to improve security. A complaint should be filed against that screener.
If appearances are everything. Sometimes they are not.
If it doesn't bother you, please go right ahead and take your shoes off, walk on the filthy floors in your stocking feet, let yourself be ordered around by former McD's employees.
I never worked at McD's.
I choose to respect myself too much to allow someone to treat me like a potential terrorist. If I am doing nothing wrong, you will not treat me as if I am and get away with it.
Everyone is not being treated that way. IF you want to fly, there are rules that must be adhered to. Its all point of view.
By the way, the itimidation game can be played two ways. As someone suggested in another post (maybe not in this thread), there are ways to imply that one might be doing a spot check of screeners without saying anything that is false. Bullies are easily intimidated.
???? I must have missed that one.