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.
Yes, a screener will encounter far more passengers than a passenger will encounter screeners. But what you are noting only becomes meaningful if part of a platform by which to justify collective guilt & punishment and excusing the screener taking out their frustration with some on others. What I noted becomes meaningful as part of a platform of individual accountability.
Originally Posted by hungry_joe
Granted the screener has more abuse potential than the passenger -- most of the time. I'm not trying to defend these abusive people, merely pointing out that if we step back far enough screeners and passengers tend to be similar people overall.
There's certainly a good number of similarities between the screeners and screened; however, there's the power dynamic differential and the resulting sensibility of holding those with the delegated authority accountable. Passengers don't have officially delegated authority for purpose of this discussion.