The bright side: competent, polite security screeners
Lots of justified complaints here about incompetent, power-hungry, idiotic security screeners. But I've also encountered some good ones (I suspect these nominations will mostly be for smaller airports, but who knows). Let's use this thread to compliment them, which may also steer some business to the airports and airlines that hire them.
My first two nominations:
1. The jovial middle-aged supervisor and his equally jovial (but very competent and thorough) subordinates at the United gates at JAX.
2. The people who check cars coming into the terminal C parking lot at SJC. They are courteous almost to a fault.