I feel sorry for TSA workers

[SmileyRose]

Most of TSA airport screeners are obviously not the cream of the crop when it comes to skills. If you are low skill, and you have a choice between unemployment, minimum wage or $25 an hour plus benefits working for the TSA, you'd take that deal and so would I. I would expect there are a few sex predators, thieves and thugs amongst the bunch, but by and large I would think they just want to do a good job and mean us no harm.

Mostly these folks are easily convinced the idiot things they have been asked to do are patriotic, necessary, and valued by the vast majority of Americans. These folks do what they have been asked to do to the best of their ability. These are generally low skilled workers. If they were great communicators, fabulous customer service providers, socially gifted, and able to make fast sound decisions, they would NOT be airport screeners.

When they were told to confiscate all liquids, some of the brighter ones realized mascara was not going to kill anyone and let it through, others a little slower in the attic tossed hard to replace critical medicines in the trash so fast the passenger had no time to protest. When the higher ups told them bombs can be hidden in prosthetic limbs and wheelchairs you had the brighter screeners able to protect the dignity of the passenger and the duller ones out there strip searching grandmas.

Now they are being asked to feel up our boobs, genitals and butt cracks. I have no doubt there are a few who get a real thrill out of getting to humiliate and intimidate people in this manner. But there are probably very few airport screeners who actually want to feel up butt cracks all day. Even the stupid ones who think they are required to inspect grandmas depends for the good of the country.

For the most part I think the TSA screeners are as much a victim of the idiots and evil fucks at the top who are either too stupid to know how to provide REAL security, or else are doing this crap to advance the police state (or both).

Maybe humiliating the TSA screeners back will be affective in stopping this idiocy by upsetting them to the point they start asking hard questions of their bosses. Who knows, pretending sexual excitement, saving the farts for the screener, not bathing for weeks beforehand and other assorted offensiveness might help. But for the most part I don't think it will. I believe the vast majority of TSA screeners are too low skill to understand what they are doing is theatre, not security.

[slackmaster]

1. Their jobs are among the shittier and more thankless

Of all the shitty, thankless jobs people do.

[hlthe2b]

2. I remind you that they have a choice, bad as it might be...

Passengers do not--including past victims of sexual abuse, rape, assault. There are lots of shitty jobs and I can empathize with those holding any of them. But, in the end, the passengers should be the focus of our attention. It is they who are being victimized.

[Xipe Totec]

3. TSA = Tits Scrotum and Ass inspectors n/t

[customerserviceguy]

4. I love it!

If enough of them are demoralized, maybe enough of them will quit.