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The danger of the TSA is that the employees truly believe they are doing good and important work. The brainwashing is so strong that it almost reaches a religio

The danger of the TSA is that the employees truly believe they are doing good and important work. The brainwashing is so strong that it almost reaches a religious level.

ceejayoz 10y ago
I flew through Charlotte a few weeks ago and got stuck at TSA (the sniffer threw up a bright red "EXPLOSIVES DETECTED!" banner, upon which the other passengers at the checkpoint started giving me dirty looks and edging away... Thanks for that, TSA. You'd think it'd say something like "ERROR 5930" instead...). There were hundreds of people at the checkpoint, TSA was moving very slowly. Someone else's laptop got flagged, they asked why, and the TSA staffer said "the molecular weight of the laptop was off". She (rightly) said that didn't make sense, complained that they'd made her miss her flight, and said "I work for the government, we're on the same side, but WTF?". Response to her was "don't you want to be safe?" followed by a good five minutes of the entire TSA staff mocking her after she'd gone. They mocked her for saying she worked for the government, saying "if she worked for the government she'd know that already" (ignoring for a moment that their explanation was massively incorrect, why would a non-TSA staffer know anything about the spectrophotometer workings?) etc. Meanwhile, when they get tested, they miss 95% of test weapons/bombs. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-us-airports-allowed-weapons-through-n367851 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-u...
leesalminen 10y ago
A TSA employee was whining about a lack of pay increases to me recently. I smiled, then turned to my friend and started discussing how naive they are and the negligible amount of value these people provide to society. She turned beet red and didn't say another word.

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The danger of the TSA is that the employees truly believe they are doing good and important work. The brainwashing is so strong that it almost reaches a religio

by rocky1138 10y ago

The danger of the TSA is that the employees truly believe they are doing good and important work. The brainwashing is so strong that it almost reaches a religious level.

ceejayoz 10y ago
I flew through Charlotte a few weeks ago and got stuck at TSA (the sniffer threw up a bright red "EXPLOSIVES DETECTED!" banner, upon which the other passengers at the checkpoint started giving me dirty looks and edging away... Thanks for that, TSA. You'd think it'd say something like "ERROR 5930" instead...). There were hundreds of people at the checkpoint, TSA was moving very slowly. Someone else's laptop got flagged, they asked why, and the TSA staffer said "the molecular weight of the laptop was off". She (rightly) said that didn't make sense, complained that they'd made her miss her flight, and said "I work for the government, we're on the same side, but WTF?". Response to her was "don't you want to be safe?" followed by a good five minutes of the entire TSA staff mocking her after she'd gone. They mocked her for saying she worked for the government, saying "if she worked for the government she'd know that already" (ignoring for a moment that their explanation was massively incorrect, why would a non-TSA staffer know anything about the spectrophotometer workings?) etc. Meanwhile, when they get tested, they miss 95% of test weapons/bombs. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-us-airports-allowed-weapons-through-n367851 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-u...
leesalminen 10y ago
A TSA employee was whining about a lack of pay increases to me recently. I smiled, then turned to my friend and started discussing how naive they are and the negligible amount of value these people provide to society. She turned beet red and didn't say another word.