Originally Posted by hungry_joe
This works both ways -- the number of bad passengers one screener encounters in a day is far greater than the number of bad screeners one passenger will encounter in a day.
Wow! - that's very zen.
I would say the vast majority of american security screeners are professional, polite and generally helpful. I estimate about 1-2% of my TSA experiences have been negative (not bad for 2-5 encounters per week).
I can't say I wasn't to blame for most of my poor experiences since they generally involved me insulting or shouting at TSA and any armed pretend soldiers (i.e., national guard) brought over to threaten me after complaining about rude, forceful, racist or just stupid screeners being aggressive with my wife and children who generally receive SSSS when they travel.