Oh I don't blame my actions on others at all.....I am the only one in control of my actions...that I know. I treat everyone with respect and courtesy until that person treats me with so much disrespect that I lose all regard for how I make you feel. And that's all me.....it doesn't happen very often....but when dealing with massive amounts of people it happens every blue moon. When I have a passenger that tells me they hope someone blows up the airport while i'm in it....or says they hope their bag blows up in my face....or implies that I am uneducated because of where I choose to work I do admit that I get a bit defensive.

A single data point does not sway the results in a million plus data point graph. I nearly lost a uncle on united 93, but due to a series of events didnt make the flight. I lost close HS friends in 9/11(NYPA,NYFD, Pentagon), i have lost many more in the senseless military actions since then, so whats your point. In my profession i see the best and the worst of the human condition. I have seen things that i wish could be unseen, that the average person would puke and breakdown in to a crying bumbling mass on the ground. There are images and sounds so etched into my memory that they I will never be able to shake loose

The odds are statical points, that are a result of the law of averages you could have 5 in a row and then go a long time before the next one comes up in the odds. It doesnt matter what the odds are if your number comes up thats it.

Oh please, don't pervert Franklin/Covey at us.

If you want to use pop psych, look up the term "Enabler".

By participating in this disgusting TSA behavior, it's exactly what you are.

Not to co-opt a trite protest phrase, but "What if they had a TSA and nobody came?".

There's no professional and courteous way to molest someone.

Yup, every single professional place I've worked has been the same, people taunting each other over the size of their sex organs.

My supervisor is always cracking jokes about my penis size, it's just an everyday thing around every water cooler I'm sure.

The police report that says the X-ray revealed he had a small penis.

Yup, the police faked the report, and the entire case will be thrown out because of their carelessness.

You could quit!

Are you volunteering to be my sponsor and take on all my financial obligations for the rest of my life?

There are many other honorable fields and professions that dont require sexually assaulting people and trampling on the constitution that pay better then TSA. How much is your soul and conscious worth?

No, I'm suggesting that you get an honest job instead of selling out as cheaply as you did to work for TSA.

STSODavis, I would also like to see a response to the question of whether or not every TSO at your facility is screened every time they come to work and enter/leave the sterile area. I find it hard to believe your 'private' employee line has a WBI station, so you're saying that every TSO gets an enhanced pat-down? Are their belongings manually searched?

It might help public perception if they were screened in full view of the passengers, the way we are, using the same techniques.

I am begging my fellow Flyertalkers to be civil to STSODavis, who just started posting today and would be justified in quitting today, too, if this river of vitriolic one-liners keeps up. We all benefit from insight "behind the lines" at TSA but no gravitational force keeps her here. It is possible to oppose and attack TSA policies without running every TSO out of here on a rail, as has been past practice, to our joint disadvantage.

Can we please try to make this poster welcome?

No matter the point of screening if there is no Porno-Vision Machine there is no Opt Out hence no Enhanced Pat Down.

I believe these are in most cases normal law-abiding citizens with a concealed carry permit that had an "Oh, crap!" moment at the airport. Another thing to consider is that a TSA employee has posted that just as many LEOs are caught trying to take firearms through the checkpoint as civilians.

We don't have AIT on the employee lane.....but our employee lane is not open all day...so there is a high chance that you will have to go through a lane with AIT....and our employee lane used to be alongside regular lanes before all the airline staff complained that they didn't want to be screened in front of everyone. So when they did the reconfiguration they put if off to the side. It makes no difference where the lane is for me. Sometimes I go through the regular lane just because it's more convenient to where I am going at that particular time. Oh, and this "Enhanced Pat Down" you speak of is not only for opt-outs. This is the standard procedure now. So if I alarm because of pins in my hair, which I do sometimes depending on the style, I have to receive the pat-down the same as everyone else. I have co-workers that have knee replacements and pace-makers and they all get the pat-down everyday sometimes 10 or more times a day depending on how much they go in and out of the sterile area.

Awww....aren't you so sweet. I think I'm okay. I don't take things so personal (at least not yet). I have thick skin and I find the topics here interesting. So I think I may hang around for a while.

Interesting, because other TSOs here have said that they are NOT scanned/screened every time (or at all?) because it's too invasive and would delay the flying public.