uhhhh, yes, you will pay more, but not triple your ticket. $5 increase would easily double or triple the salary. The issue is too much greed and poor regulation.
whatever, it was just a number the issue issue is a broken system that can either be accepted as being what is or completely revamped
I think no matter what the pay....if you complain about a persons job performance to his boss, and then repeat your complaint to him when his boss is not around....I'm not too surprised you're not thanked, or that the employee is not too concerned about your convenience as he does a 'thorough' job. You want to be screened? Well, how's this then? Police in some places are well paid. Try telling the cop at the drunk driving checkpoint that he's not doing a thorough enough job. Try telling a professor he's not assigning enough reading. I shudder to think what basso must have eaten if he regularly voices his concern about the well paid maitre'd at fancy restaurants he eats in before he gets his meal . Try daring clutch to ban you. Time and place, man. You shoulda sent a letter if you were that concerned.
The system is simply broken at the moment because there is no real alternative that I've ever seen even considered. TSA has its spot at airports, and there's no budging them. This job "security" feels more like a monopoly too, so they become less diligent about it (leaking procedures, hiring apathetic workers, etc.). As you can imagine, I'm all for revamping airport security. I'll pay a higher ticket price (it probably wouldn't be much) if it meant having dedicated security professionals.
But for the time being, there is nothing wrong with expecting people to do the job they were hired to do regardless of their pay. Regardless of anyone's personal feeling towards Basso, he did the correct thing and unfortunately paid a price for it. Hopefully, the supervisor made a point to observe and correct the screener following Basso's complaint.
This is just plain racial profiling now. Lol. There is such a thing as a domestic terrorist guys. Also, there can be white terrorists too! Hard to believe right? Whoever is running this entire operation is a complete moron.
I know, right? And how many people from UK and France have been caught trying to light their genitalia explosives while midflight? We need a notes system like online poker, so you can remember the really asinine things that people say.
I don't really have a problem with basso complaining, I think given basso's political ideas its kind of funny, i can just imgaine him thinking he's saving the world I don't have a problem with expecting people to do their job I do think its hilarious when you complain when they don't, the simple fact is they are not security professionals.
They may not be professionals, but they are expected to screen personal items and not be distracted to the point where they are ignoring what's right in front of them. While watching they may miss something, but while not watching, they will miss something.
okay bobrek, complain all you want, that's fine, maybe i'm not that sympathetic because I don't fly that much. but I do have an understanding how things work in theory and things work in reality, and i know a lot of those people are there to collect a paycheck because in real life they are just getting by and have no empathy for a bunch people flying off to beautiful places around the world that they cannot relate to.
If I could give rep to the TSAgent who had to give basso a full cavity search I would. At IAH about a week ago, right after the new security rules phased in, I found them to be pretty cordial and accomodating - they were definitely doing more inspection, but then they also tried to speed it along (e.g. they suggested I take off my sweatshirt as well as jacket in order to avoid the full pat-down). It wasn't nearly as bad as the idiots on the local news said it would be (as a consequence I was stuck in IAH way too early - NOTE TO IAH - if you're going to be constantly freaking building things in your airport, like you have for, oh, I don't know, THE LAST 20 YEARS, maybe build a few more bars? People actually LIKE having bars in airports, because they are bored or on vacation and there is nothing else to do except drink overpriced drinks. Having that one stupid Fox Sports sky bar, located at the ass-end of Terminal E that you have to walk a mile too is incredibly stupid. How many ******* Rosetta Stone stands and Hudson News' do I have to pass by to get a beer? Crikey.)
basso, were you wearing your tea party T-shirt while reading Palin's book and singing Lee Greenwood tunes as you approached the checkpoint? I think the TSA folks immediately identified you as a super-patriot and thus were focusing on the smelly brown person behind you. Maybe when you complained, they really wanted to show a true American like you what a good job they could do.
That's the exact point my wife makes. She said more often than not, the screeners aren't screening at all. Just yesterday (in Houston), a group of 4 of them are chatting it up WHILE WATCHING THE X-RAY MACHINE. It wasn't security-type conversation either.
I know right? They've only done less mundane things like try to blow up 10 planes simultaneously, or try to blow up a popular Christmas market in Strasbourg. It is an egregious overreaction. It is well known that the moron in question did not gain any of his extremist tendencies in Nigeria, and unlike these other countries, Nigeria actually doesn't have a history of Islamist terrorism. Lots of ethnic and civil unrest, sure, but having a person blow themselves up in Allah's name is unprecedented.
