Gate searches -- still?!? AAARRRHHHGGG!! (merged)
Oct 29, 2009, 4:43 pm
#631
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How about cleaning and disinfecting the bins and surfaces passengers touch at the checkpoint. It is flu season and Obama has declared an H1N1 emergency.
Keeping the checkpoint sanitary - especially bins and other commonly touched surfaces around the x-ray machine / WTMD - would actually contribute to the safety and well-being of travelers, flight crews, as well as other smurfs working the checkpoint. @:-)
Keeping the checkpoint sanitary - especially bins and other commonly touched surfaces around the x-ray machine / WTMD - would actually contribute to the safety and well-being of travelers, flight crews, as well as other smurfs working the checkpoint. @:-)
Oct 29, 2009, 4:58 pm
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How about cleaning and disinfecting the bins and surfaces passengers touch at the checkpoint. It is flu season and Obama has declared an H1N1 emergency.
Keeping the checkpoint sanitary - especially bins and other commonly touched surfaces around the x-ray machine / WTMD - would actually contribute to the safety and well-being of travelers, flight crews, as well as other smurfs working the checkpoint. @:-)
Keeping the checkpoint sanitary - especially bins and other commonly touched surfaces around the x-ray machine / WTMD - would actually contribute to the safety and well-being of travelers, flight crews, as well as other smurfs working the checkpoint. @:-)
Oct 30, 2009, 9:32 am
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I have yet to be smurfed at the gate, but I commend each of you who have been and not blown your top at these useless harrassments.
TSA, since you will never fire your surplus workforce, please assign the excess smurfs to tasks less violating and more useful than gate molestations. I have seen smurfs Windexing the xray machinery, tending to pretty 9/11 commemorative poster collages, dancing, and slumped back in wheelchairs. Any of these is preferable to the awful busywork they are engaged in now.
TSA, since you will never fire your surplus workforce, please assign the excess smurfs to tasks less violating and more useful than gate molestations. I have seen smurfs Windexing the xray machinery, tending to pretty 9/11 commemorative poster collages, dancing, and slumped back in wheelchairs. Any of these is preferable to the awful busywork they are engaged in now.
it's not rocket science to run an assembly line (which is exactly what a security checkpoint is) and the worst thing that can happen to an assembly line is that it slows down and/or stops working. get 'em in, do the job and get 'em out-it's that simple (wash, rinse and repeat)
Oct 31, 2009, 7:55 pm
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I fly on Southwest a fair amount and anyone who does that understands the first in / first pick seating. How will a gate screening work on a WN flight? Will they hold up the whole boarding process? Is the passenger just screwed? Will they let the passenger go aboard and claim his seat prior to the screening?
I haven't had to confront gate screening on a WN flight yet but I think it would get ugly pretty fast.
Does anyone have an actual experience to share?
I haven't had to confront gate screening on a WN flight yet but I think it would get ugly pretty fast.
Does anyone have an actual experience to share?
Oct 31, 2009, 8:01 pm
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It would seem to me that when government Fraud, Waste and Abuse is looked at that TSA would be dead bull center using abusive methods like this.
The chance of finding anything using a gate check is so remote that it's laughable.
How stupid can TSA leadership get?
The chance of finding anything using a gate check is so remote that it's laughable.
How stupid can TSA leadership get?
Oct 31, 2009, 10:32 pm
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TSA continues on with its useless, window dressing, hassle filled rules and procedures and I would be willing to wager that more is yet to come.
Nov 1, 2009, 1:01 am
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You'd need to invent a whole new metric of "Stupid" to be able to measure it. It seriously outstrips every other case of stupid I've ever come across.
Oh, and 7, 21 and 30.
Oh, and 7, 21 and 30.
Nov 1, 2009, 8:24 pm
#638
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The TSA leadership can get precisely as stupid as this: As long as people are stupid enough to keep showing up for them to to screw over, they will continue to do so.
Just keep lining up, and they will keep obliging you.
Not I, dear reader.
Just keep lining up, and they will keep obliging you.
Not I, dear reader.
Nov 3, 2009, 9:20 am
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TSA is so far over staffed.
Nov 3, 2009, 10:38 am
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It blows my mind that they are so overstaffed to just sit around and stare at pax, as well as harass them at the gates -- all the while long lines form at checkpoints with closed lanes.
TSA folks - wonder why we despise your agency?
TSA folks - wonder why we despise your agency?
Nov 3, 2009, 8:55 pm
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They're not overstaffed, they have just misdeployed the staff. Even if folks at airports like IAD believe they're understaffed.
Nov 4, 2009, 9:04 am
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Seriously, though, I believe, my opinion/conjecture ONLY, that the DC metro area airports (IAD and DCA) are misdeployed intentionally to make the political arena folks delayed. Those with pockets will complain about the delays and the TSA will then get more funding for personnel...
BWI is misdeployed intentionally for the same reasons, in addition to being the regional test site for new TSA goat ropes from HQ.