Like I said at my airport we get screened. The only special treatment that entails is that we use the employee lane which is out of view of the general public.

BearX...that is the best post/response I have seen in a long time. Very thoughtful and on point.

Tell that to your colleagues that just come to work without going through screening. How about the clerks that just waltz into the checkpoint through the exit for passengers, and then start work, or have access to the concourse?

Are you saying you are screened when reporting to work?

And why is that? Why can't you use the same lanes everyone else does?

Does the employee lane have and AIT?

Why the special treatment?

What airport do you work at?

If a persons job requires travel then you are in fact making it hard.

No available rules to refer to.

Each TSA employee making it up as they go.

No effective recourse for public complaints.

and the list goes on.

If anyone believes that, please go to a search engine such as Bing, Google, or Ixquick and type in "Rolando Negrin"

Well that's when you should use the methodology of an author named Stephen Covey. "Circle of Concern-aspects of an issue which you have concern about but have no control or influence, Circle of Influence- aspects of an issue in which you have direct or indirect control or influence, and YOU-what you have total control and influence over.

Figure out where your issue falls Circle of Concern, Influence, or it is YOU...and then respond appropriately.

Things dealing with my jobs policies and procedures fall under circle of Concern for me....So that's where it shall lie....how I respond to it is all ME...There's nothing I alone can do to change our policies and procedures....therefore I shall accept it like a big girl and just continue to do what I do professionally and in a courteous manner until I come in contact with a real jacka** who makes me stoop to their level.

You must be a push over with no conciseness because when i encounter something that i know is wrong I will not "do as im told or follow orders(ala Nuremberg Defense) " I will protest and refuse to do so. I have gone up against managements of hospitals on issues and have fought them as I not only have a duty to myself, but to those i serve. I have yet to have any dings on my record for doing so, and after the dust has settled on a few of them have had letters of recognition as well as hospital administrators apologies for what happened.

Then in your "pat down" do you touch, grab, squeeze or press any of the following parts of the body: breast, vagina, penis, testicles, or anus? Then do you know that depending on the state you are committing the crime of sexual assault or battery depending on the state?

Then beyond that do you know that TSA is really a smoke a mirrors theater act that wasters 6+ billion dollars annually for a risk that is litterally 1 in a centillion. your more likely to be killed in a car accident on the way to the airport then on a airplane in a act of terrorism. 9/11 was a one off event, Did you know that more people in the US are injured or killed each month on the highway then were killed in 9/11 and the economic damage(property damage, medical bills, lost time, lost wages, lost production, etc) from those accidents is higher then the total cost of the events of 9/11. That is each and every month, so please why should be continue to waste 6+ billion dollars a year on something that the odds of happening are so remote its not even funny and where the money TSA wastes could be diverted to projects that would actually increase safety and security in the US?

I don't know this Negrin guy, but I suspect that him being made fun of was maybe an everyday occurrence. The AIT Training was probably all the taunter needed to give him more ammunition to ridicule this guy to the point where he exploded. I've seen images of my male co-workers on the AIT and it doesn't make me look at any of them any differently before. There is no knowing the size of their package. Now if there package was hanging halfway down their leg the machine may pick that up as an anomaly.

So you are screened every time you enter the sterile side of the terminal, and your property is screened to the same level that a passengers is? Then are you screened when you leave so to check to make sure you havent stolen anything from a passenger say like your cohorts at EWR, MIA, etc.

Well since you have a tin badge you would set off the WTMD every time, so that means you would be patted down, is it the same pat down the passengers get or is a glossed over pat-down that wouldnt find anything unless it was obvious to the naked eye.

So much for

Apparently how you respond is partially up to others.

Interesting that you would look to avoid personal responsibility for the times you do not act in a courteous and professional manner.

It is not acting professional to blame your actions on others.

Welcome.

Has Germany had terrorist incidents involving air travel? ABSOLUTELY!

Did we learn from them and implement security measures in a professional manner which make sense, and have most likely deterred future incidents? ABSOLUTELY!

I continue to struggle with why the US seems to want to be reactive and implement measures that may address past actions but do not in fact improve the overall security. It also seems to take quite a bit more to cause us to panic.

I have written here recently about the number of UXB's discovered weekly and the bomb removal which is a 'normal' occurence in much of the country. Yet we are not running around shrieking in fear, even though those bombs have caused serious injury and deaths. Leadership and media play a very significant role in the perception of safety.

I never said anything I do is "wrong" I said there are some things that I don't agree with or like doing.

And everyone saying you are more like to have this and that happen and there were more people killed by this than on 9/11 are not in the same position as some other people. Like say me for instance. I lost 3 loved ones on United flight 175...the one that hit the South Tower....and I have never lost a loved one to a car accident or had a loved one in a major car accident ever. So I guess the odds were not in my favor or theirs huh?

It makes me wonder if TSA management is composed of the cast offs from the rest of the government combined with the pizza box hires.