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#3468
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I would file a complaint against the screener who threatened to contact your employer, from what I have read from some of the reliable screeners who used to post here, threatening is against SOP.
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The SOP is whatever an FSD, an STSO, an LTSO or an individual screener chooses to make it.
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What did they say when you couldn't raise your arm for the initial and secondary pat-down?
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Sometimes it takes a few repeated barks for the groper to understand that the same physical limitations that prevent me from using the NoS also prevent me from assuming and holding the 'T' position during the grope.
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Not only was she retaliated against, subsequently when she went through the same checkpoint after management and staff had been re-trained, the xray TSO still lied to her about the correct SOP - only on that occasion, she was accompanied by some sort of CSR who was not in uniform or recognized at the checkpoint. Only after that CSR stepped forward and identified herself, only then did the TSO follow the SOP (on that one occasion, at any rate).
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Torn rotator cuff at CLE this morning around 08:30*
Went thru the WTMD
No alarm and on my way
*torn rotator cuff healed by 08:40
Went thru the WTMD
No alarm and on my way
*torn rotator cuff healed by 08:40
#3478
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In my case, it always means extra attention to my armpit.
Sometimes it takes a few repeated barks for the groper to understand that the same physical limitations that prevent me from using the NoS also prevent me from assuming and holding the 'T' position during the grope.
Sometimes it takes a few repeated barks for the groper to understand that the same physical limitations that prevent me from using the NoS also prevent me from assuming and holding the 'T' position during the grope.
And remember, in the US skirt-wearers are usually ordered to perform the lunge. I really don't know how they expect especially older women, many of whom do wear skirts, to do those acrobatics.
And to answer an earlier question, I've had difficulty as a medical opt out at IAH (as well as at ORD, DEN, and other airports)
Now I wonder if the determining factor is medical opt out + female = trouble as it seems that many male posters have not had trouble opting out if they 'cannot raise their arms'. (And to be clear, I am entirely honest about my limitations as I have dealt with them for decades before the existence of the TSA)
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Not funny, goalie, not funny at all.
Some of us really do have physical limitations, and it really isn't fun getting hands between the legs and down the pants every single time I transit a checkpoint because of my limits. It certainly doesn't make me feel better that it's all a big joke to you when you get away with it; perhaps it's part of the reason folks like me get challenged and treated like a liar at the checkpoint when I explain my limitations.