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Or apparently so some employees of the TSA believe:
http://www.nowpublic.com/nightmare_at_reagan_national_airport_a_security_story_to_end_all_security_stories
Get a grip, guys. Try to remember what it is that you're meant to accomplish. Hint: it's not your personal aggrandizement via petty power trips.
(I have recently spoken, in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amnesiadust's LJ, on the subject of cops and why it makes sense that they're often difficult to deal with, namely that people treat them like crap as much as possible and they're often in constant danger of assault. Those factors, for the most part, don't apply here: airline travelers are generally polite and cooperative while they're going through security, and the risk of any of them offering aggression to a TSA worker is basically nil--and even if it happened, they've got backup all around them. TSA workers who act as those in the above story do have, as far as I'm concerned, no excuse.)
http://www.nowpublic.com/nightmare_at_reagan_national_airport_a_security_story_to_end_all_security_stories
Get a grip, guys. Try to remember what it is that you're meant to accomplish. Hint: it's not your personal aggrandizement via petty power trips.
(I have recently spoken, in
amnesiadust's LJ, on the subject of cops and why it makes sense that they're often difficult to deal with, namely that people treat them like crap as much as possible and they're often in constant danger of assault. Those factors, for the most part, don't apply here: airline travelers are generally polite and cooperative while they're going through security, and the risk of any of them offering aggression to a TSA worker is basically nil--and even if it happened, they've got backup all around them. TSA workers who act as those in the above story do have, as far as I'm concerned, no excuse.)
