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A few months ago, an investigation uncovered a secret Border Patrol Facebook group. The group was filled with vulgar, sexist and racist posts that were made by federal border agents. From an obscene illustration featuring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to jokes about migrant deaths, the content left many people completely baffled. And if you think that group was bad, well, as it turns out, TSA employees are no better.

Recently, NBC Washington revealed that Transportation Security Administration employees have their own Facebook group with 18,000 current and former employees called TSA Breakroom. The employees used it to vent about their managers, coworkers and of course the travelers who, in some cases, were described as 'idiots'. Posts were filled with hate, frustration, crudeness and racial stereotypes. While the group is no longer available, NBC Washington managed to gather some of the absolutely outrageous posts.

Even though TSA made a statement to News4 I-Team in which they stated that the page "is not affiliated with TSA" and "an employee's off-duty internet use must not adversely reflect on TSA", the posts clearly demonstrate problems within the institution. An audit by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General cited staff turnover, shortages, pay and “excessive use of overtime” as causes of lower job satisfaction and morale.

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Renee Gauthier
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think that is that bad. Just being realistic & funny about what the gloves look like.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just doing their job. Customers who say they’ve already been checked elsewhere blah blah blah are asshats. Just get checked and leave, you’re holding up the damn line.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yea, you don't get to dictate what the TSA searches. The note was pretty delusional.

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Anonymous
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, so basically you let a personal issue come in the way of doing your job... unorofessional, maybe?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah. Search the bag all you want, but throwing in a stack of inspection notices is just a stupid thing to do.

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Night Owl
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's really petty. Good to know you can't trust them even a little bit

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By checking your bag in at the airport, you automatically consent to whatever searching the TSA decides to do. Notes are utterly meaningless. They will search your bag if it the scanners flag it for search. I used to carry film with me in lead safes, they were inspected 100% of the time, even though they had the required stickers reporting them as film.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never be a jerk to the people who can keep you from making your flight. #commonsense.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

just reminds you yet again how miserable tsa workers are

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L McN
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree, but doesn't a person who has, IDK, valuable items in their bag (maybe not monetary but stuff they depend on like INSULIN in a higher quantity than allowed through the check in) at least deserve to be notified that their bag was check, so they can inventory it BEFORE they leave the airport at their arrival? (Not after they get to the hotel only to discover the insulin was not put back!)

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reasonable. If you walk into an airport wearing a t-shirt that reads, "RELAX! NO BOMBS ARE HIDDEN UP MY BUTT!" Guess who's getting a cavity search?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TSA agents have caught nothing more then being thieves /drug users waste of time had two law suits won against them for theft for this reason

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Steve Doza
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You guy's are public servants. It's your Job to keep people safe. Not to give people a hard time and get a kick out of it. Your TSA agents not masters of the universe come back down to earth and stomp the ego down . Your nothing but a bunch of power happy losers. Drive home in your stupid broke a*s cars and get bent.

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Karen Klinck
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I too was a public servant, as the people committing the most fraud took care to tell me. My sympathies are completely with the employee. Just in passing--what have you tried to run fraudulent through the system lately?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But did they steal or break something? If not then keep things moving- don't annoy the already annoyed TSA agent.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly, I think they should've respected her space...But, you do you TSA, you do you.

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BG Rey
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, with an attitude like hers there might be a hidden bomb in her underwear! Check it all for our sakes!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's why I don't put a fragile sticker on packages when I'm sending stuff out even if it is. It's just an invitation for petty a**holes to mess with it even worse.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is anyone concerned about how amazingly sexist this person is? Like petty, sure, be petty whatever, but calling a woman a cow just because you feel slighted is just f*****g rude. He never even saw the person who owned the bag, this is just how he automatically thinks about women. This guy is a hostile work environment lawsuit waiting to happen.

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm willing to bet he knew it was a woman based on what was in or on the bag, likely a name badge people put on their luggage or he found a photo of the owner in one of those 'in case found locate this person' sections of the bag. It could also have been just the fact there were female articles of clothing that had her sizes which are easily viewable when exploring a bag. Also, how do you know the TSA agent was a male? there was nothing in that post that gave away the agent's gender at all. Talk about hypocritical sexism.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They aren't keeping us safe. My duffel bag still had Iraqi sand on it and was stuffed full of uniforms and a pair of bloody bootlaces when some TSA worker went through my bag and stole all my DVDs. Thank God that brave worker protected me from my own DVDs. The TSA also stopped my unit from RE-boarding OUR OWN BLOODY PLANE when we stopped at Baltimore Airport to stretch our legs. That plane probably had two weapons for every soldier on it, guarded by a bunch of colonels and one general, and but these TSA bastards made us take off our boots, our belts, and our over-blouses. Eighteen hours earlier, we'd been in Baghdad, and the airport we were in was completely empty except for cleaning crews, but they stopped us.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So you expect TSA to not inspect people from a plane that just came in from Iraq?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THAT demonstrates why most people hate the sight of TSA agents

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only in the USA does the authorities break into my luggage (BREAKING the lock!), and leave a not saying essentially "f**k you, we got the right to do this". Not even a "sorry for the trouble we caused you".

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your luggage is not supposed to have a lock on it! They will cut off the locks because there is not enough time to stop everything while a TSA employee searches for you to get the key.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But that probably wasn't even a lie... it really depends on the airport

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry, what exactly is wrong with this? The person is cold. There is a heat-source. Person is only proving that they're not a numpty by applying heat from source to cold extremities.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is profiling, not racist. If a large percentage of travelers from China (usually Chinese) bring prohibited items with them, then a whole group not having anything is an outlier and worthy of a little nod. Nothing wrong with that.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's actually horrible??? Just because you have a crappy unfulfilling life, Susan, doesn't mean you should feel joy when others lose theirs. Learn to be happy. This is some real grinchness here.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wilvander, you realise that it was the TSA that someone else was shouting at right? Not the other way around?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would expect security measures within one country - or at least one state - to be the same! This is not about preferences such as shoes on or off, this is about safety!

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And why is this post here? OK I need my life back, can't believe I'm this far down and still nothing to enjoy/get upset so far.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SSSS = Secondary Security Screening Selection. LLLL = you're pre-check approved. I believe it stands for "Laptop Liquid Light-jacket Line" (ie the line where you don't need to remove your laptop, liquids, or light-jacket, in order to be scanned). (according to google research & the TSA-related websites)

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