ICE agents get paychecks. TSA officers get food banks. Same department. Same shutdown. Different bank accounts. Congress chose who eats and who doesn't.
All these stories about TSA are foreign to me. I’ve never witnessed anything other than resigned professionalism from them. They don’t look they’re having a great time at work, but I’ve chalked at least half of that up to training, and the other half is just basic exhaustion.
Like people who complain about noisy theaters. I’ve never really experienced that, and I go to high volume theaters.
When people start hollering about how badly everyone is treating them, I start to wonder how they were behaving.
Good job you’ve been lucky. I’d say 9/10 times its fine. The issue is the 1 time it’s not they have an absurd amount of power over you and can absolutely ruin your day over something petty.
Some agents absolutely take that exhaustion out on travelers.
And to your movie theater example same thing. The vast majority of times its fine, but once again I’ve had a few times where a group sat behind me that wanted to talk to each other and not watch the movie. It’s annoying, but rare.
Did you consider the possibility that people complain about the times that are bad and not the times that are good?
Also you only addressed 1 point of my comment the attitude of TSA, not the systemic issues that make the system asinine
I didn’t address any more of you’re post because I’ve been having this argument for two days, and I’m tired of it.
Essentially, everybody wants to get rid of TSA because they aren’t effective, and NOBODY has made any suggestion at all about what would be a better alternative. Whatever the reason is, the current system has worked well for 25 years, far better than any other previous 25 years period, and nobody can agree which elements are the most important, so I’m for keeping the whole thing as it is.
Besides, what would a new system look like? When all was said and done, it would probably end up looking pretty close to what we have now, except the agents would have to be NICER. Truthfully, that seems to be the biggest objection these babies have about TSA.
And one final thing: How excited are you going to be to start flying in a system that doesn’t bother to screen and passengers or bags, because the cockpit door is locked, so everybody is perfectly safe?
All these stories about TSA are foreign to me. I’ve never witnessed anything other than resigned professionalism from them. They don’t look they’re having a great time at work, but I’ve chalked at least half of that up to training, and the other half is just basic exhaustion.
Like people who complain about noisy theaters. I’ve never really experienced that, and I go to high volume theaters.
When people start hollering about how badly everyone is treating them, I start to wonder how they were behaving.
Good job you’ve been lucky. I’d say 9/10 times its fine. The issue is the 1 time it’s not they have an absurd amount of power over you and can absolutely ruin your day over something petty.
Some agents absolutely take that exhaustion out on travelers.
And to your movie theater example same thing. The vast majority of times its fine, but once again I’ve had a few times where a group sat behind me that wanted to talk to each other and not watch the movie. It’s annoying, but rare.
Did you consider the possibility that people complain about the times that are bad and not the times that are good?
Also you only addressed 1 point of my comment the attitude of TSA, not the systemic issues that make the system asinine
I didn’t address any more of you’re post because I’ve been having this argument for two days, and I’m tired of it.
Essentially, everybody wants to get rid of TSA because they aren’t effective, and NOBODY has made any suggestion at all about what would be a better alternative. Whatever the reason is, the current system has worked well for 25 years, far better than any other previous 25 years period, and nobody can agree which elements are the most important, so I’m for keeping the whole thing as it is.
Besides, what would a new system look like? When all was said and done, it would probably end up looking pretty close to what we have now, except the agents would have to be NICER. Truthfully, that seems to be the biggest objection these babies have about TSA.
And one final thing: How excited are you going to be to start flying in a system that doesn’t bother to screen and passengers or bags, because the cockpit door is locked, so everybody is perfectly safe?