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Turns Out, TSA Employees Have A Secret Facebook Group With 18,000 People And Here Are Some Of Their Worst Vents
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 6 years ago
I don't think that is that bad. Just being realistic & funny about what the gloves look like.
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Rabbit Carrot 6 years ago (edited)
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.
Hans 6 years ago
I think you need to see both sides. In the very moment, you cannot do much and should move on. The people checking you cannot change the rules anyway. However, different standards by the same agency actually undermine security and should, therefore, be questioned.
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Master Markus 6 years ago
I was going to correct that because I read it wrong like "people threw things at another airport" and thought it was okay.
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No you didn't 6 years ago (edited)
I get that, but as a traveller, I do find it super frustrating when an agent takes a fork off me that was clear to travel with me on 10 airport before. Don't they have guidelines?
David Manhart 6 years ago
There is nothing wrong with questioning the process where you have to go through two separate checks. That is a waste of personnel and an assault on a person's sense of common sense.
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
And the second airport may have heightened security concerns. Would you rather end up blowing up, taking an unscheduled trip to another country at the point of a gun, or end your flight ramming into a building?
Load More Replies... Electric Ed 6 years ago
So, why do you do it differently in different places? If you want me e.g. to remove my shoes, then you have to tell me to do so. How should I as a passenger, most likely being here the first time, know your particular customs in such a nice event as airport security? And if you seriously want me to do something so silly as removing my shoes, well then, some people will get butt hurt. Deal with it - that's what you get paid for.
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
Maybe the fact that they have to repeat the instructions with each passenger might clarify the frustration--and then the idiots still want to argue! I last flew several years ago, but even walking with a cane I was willing to take off my sandals. These poor people don't make the regs you're whining about. Take it up with a superior, while you miss your flight!
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Craig Silberman 6 years ago (edited)
this confirms my observation that they each make up their own rules, instead of following established procedures that apply to every airport; also, if the TSA agent doesn't know the difference between "through" and "threw," he or she is an idiot
TigerDRena 6 years ago
The issue with this is that some items are not clearly defined in EU for example, when it comes to what are "dangerous" items? There is a list of some of the prohibited items, and then there are very vague descriptions. And every airport seems to handle some of those items differently. Take travel tripods for photographers or even small umbrellas as an example. Seen both being accepted and both also being rejected and different - sometimes even the same airports when handled by different staff.
TigerDRena 6 years ago
To clarify this: When I tried to research if I could take my camera tripod with me on a trip I couldn't find any clear information. The EU regulations stated something like: "No pointy or sharp items. No items that can be used to injure other passengers." Like really? You could use anything to really hurt someone if you wanted. =|
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misteriosa 6 years ago
Such people are awful. This is not relqted to customer service per se, but their character. For example, in part of my city, it is forbidden to park at entrances of buildings and on side of a street because they are narrowing (otherwise two-way streets) and have more than enough parking areas between buildings, but residents don't care and leave cars at those places nevertheless. When police finally came and started writing tickets, they had the audacity to complain on tv how "it is not fair" and "they left their cars there for _insert_amount_of_time_", dude, just because you ignored the law for so long doesn't mean that it becomes ok after a while. I am so irritated by such people.
Michelle Hernandez 6 years ago
My Mom was SUPER PISSED when she was forced to throw out some rocks she had collected in Italy. If she had put them int her checked luggage she would have been fine. Word to the wise- remember each country and even each airport has different rules depending on local issues- in this case Ireland does NOT play with possible germs from rocks.
Grazina Strolia 6 years ago
Naw, no: having just traveled this past weekend with a child car seat that's certified for planes but *looks* too large, even though exceptions for its size are given by every airline, and being furiously told by security at the third airport that we couldn't bring it onboard (until fortunately his supervisor noticed), I DISAGREE.
Trash Panda 6 years ago
Ignorant. The word is "through". If you're going to call out someone for their shortcomings you had better have your s**t straight.
Stanislaw Orynski 6 years ago
Well I once had guy giving me a long speech (I was just working in the nearest building) about how he was parking in the no-parking zone for half a year so why police locked his wheel today (maybe you were just lucky before?)
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
"Just because the last person didn't follow the rules doesn't mean I don't."
Geoffrey Holland 6 years ago
The only problem I have with this one is the misspelling of the word through.
Donna Webber 6 years ago
People that cant figure the difference between the words threw and through should be put to sleep
Marnie 6 years ago
Honestly, even people who very well know the difference might occassionally type the wrong word. I wrote "to" when I meant "two" in a software design doc the other day and didn't realize it until I proof-read it later. I definitely do know the difference.
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Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
Learn to spell before you rag on other people. No wonder he/she got the job of village idiot.
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Anna McHugh 6 years ago
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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Demi Zwaan 6 years ago
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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Gemma Read 6 years ago
Wilvander, you realise that it was the TSA that someone else was shouting at right? Not the other way around?
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Marcellus the Third 6 years ago
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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Pseudo Puppy 6 years ago
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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Shireen 6 years ago
I don't know what to think about these... some of them are funny but honestly these people seem like the worse kind of people to work with or befriends with. This is why everyone hates airport security, they treat us like criminals and like we're idiots and apparently that's exactly how they feel?!
John L 6 years ago
What do you expect for jobs that were advertised for on Domino's Pizza boxes. Yeah, we're the dim ones....
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Kenny Kulbiski 6 years ago
Most of us don't fly every day so we're already semi stressed and we haven't got all the Mickey Mouse, ever changing rules memorized. It's not our fault you hate your job you'd probably hate any job. No sympathy here.
Tacitus86 6 years ago
I see nothing wrong with this, aside from one. Wishing someone's plane blows up is awful!
Liz Karsa 6 years ago
So many cretins work for TSA --- this FB group just illustrates that fact. How incredibly pathetic.
Renee Gauthier 6 years ago
You get what you pay for. Same reason for so many bad employees working fast food.
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Olga Antonova 6 years ago
Honestly, it is way better that I was expected. If these are their worst vents, I'd say most of them are very polite and patient people. Let’s admit there are way too many selfish, entitled, crazy or aggressive passengers at any given airport; add stress and alcohol to that, and imaging having to deal with them all day long.
LuckyL 6 years ago
I didn't expect the comments here to be so negative. Isn't everyone who works with customers annoyed by some of them and has to vent sometimes. And they see a LOT of customers every day, and probably hear the same things over and over again. So yes, it's their job, but I think it's also okay to cope with this through talking to others in the same job. And for all flights I had, I never had a bad experience, they are just people too.
Olga Antonova 6 years ago
Totally agree. Most of the people who works in retail, customer service or similar position dealing with tons of customers, are saying how exhausting it is. Most of us complain about our jobs one way or another, it is highly hypocritical to expect TSA agents to be saints.
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TheDivineMs.M 6 years ago
I used to work for CVS Pharmacy- we had a Facebook group called CVS stole my soul where we'd complain about customers, etc
Me Myself and I 6 years ago
You gotta know how to handle people. Like how to respond to those who complain about other airports being different. Simply tell them it's to keep them safe. If every airport used the same procedures, the 'bad guys' would know what to avoid. You're welcome.
The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
This just seemed like a compilation of typical Facebook posts to me....
Geoffrey Holland 6 years ago
Aside from the kid in the stroller one, I don't have a problem with any of these. These are not bad vents. This is reality and you could do the same sort of group for any group of employees that deal with humans on a daily basis and you'd hear the same kind of stuff.
John Louis 6 years ago
This posts come off as weak, petty, small minded and by people who should never have power over others. I doubt they make air travel any safer and are part of an brutally intrusive system.
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
Try doing the job for 6 months. Then get back to us and tell us how polite all the passengers are.
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Cherelyn Willet 6 years ago
I hope nobody gets in trouble for this. They have a sucktastic job and they are just venting. Let them vent.
Sterre Klaver 6 years ago
There is tons and tons of articles and lists exactly the same as this but by sales clerks, wait staff, reception staff etc. Why is this such a big deal? People in any kind of costumer service are gonna complain about who they have to deal with
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
And better than going off and seriously harming someone. This is also a very dangerous job at some undetermined moment.
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tuzdayschild 6 years ago (edited)
I used to work for TSA and I remember staff looking forward to difficult passengers because they entertained us. The day is so monotonous until some passenger starts freaking out and yelling about being patted down or having their luggage searched. For us it was like watching TV.
✎Kinda_Scarlett 6 years ago
I don't see much wrong with most of these. People need to rant about their jobs every now and then! Yes, I few might be terrible but still. We often complain about TSA employees without even realizing it, they should get a chance to do the same back at us. As long as they don't say anything too cruel (ex: being racist), then I see nothing wrong with this group existing.
Victoria Swift 6 years ago
So? Almost every work type has these secret FB groups. Hell, I belong to one for the wives of what my husband does for a living because it's so freaking specific very few people understand the lifestyle. I guess I don't get the big deal. It's the same as all those waiter/waitress groups that post giant festivus complaints about their customers.
Terapeg Guana 6 years ago
This is pretty normal. Most everyone that works with people does this. Y'all should hear some of the s**t food service workers have to say.
Jeff Requier 6 years ago
Its a secret group and some whiny b***h got in and than ratted them out, stop being offended
Terapeg Guana 6 years ago
This is pretty normal. Most everyone that works with people has a vent board, in fact there are entire reddit communities dedicated to the nonsense that customers pull/try to pull.
Craig Silberman 6 years ago
this post did nothing to improve my opinion of TSA employees; if anything, it confirmed my worst suspicions about them, and made me fear for our safety if they're the ones responsible for it
Leo Domitrix 6 years ago
Well, y'know, back at 'em on charges of idiocy and similar. I was a regular "target". (Do they share info on passengers who are a "good patdown"?!) And my complaint? Laughed off. "What did you expect?"... BTW, the female agent "in the room"? Had her back turned and/or was staring at a phone each of the *four* times this happened. And I ain't that shapely. One confiscated my bra, btw, and shook the plastic "underwires" at me like I'd tried to kill someone. Yep, tore apart the bra to prove it was dangerous and he had reason to grope. Ugh.
Dorothy Parker 6 years ago (edited)
Had to stop reading. So much disrespect for the public and their jobs. Really an ugly contribution. Oh, plus fat shaming. All bad.
Jennie Stilton 4 years ago
The TSA screening is stressful, and add to the stress that the rules are different from one airport to another, so we really don't know what to expect. More often than not, when my fellow passengers are confused and do the "wrong" things, TSA agents yell and treat them like they are intentionally disobeying orders. This adds to the stress. It's not too much to ask for consistency. If you are going to make me take my shoes off and present my snacks at one airport, then it should be followed at every airport.
Jeff Requier 6 years ago
Cry cry cry, they are aloud to f****n vent about dealing with you s**t heads. They also were working and NOT GETTING PAID just a short time ago.
Eva Zaqqum 6 years ago
Not that bad. I wouldn't blame them. It's their group on a social media, why not. What I find silly is that someone went there to print screen their posts.... Oh like a little kid, "oh look what are they doing" :D They're not hurting anybody, right? I don't say they're nice people though, but it's ok. Maybe they're brunt out? That would be the worst scenario. I know some doctors and nurses, if they would create a page on fb/twitter/whatever and share their ordinary issues with patiens in a kind of black humoured style... I wouldn't blame them as well. Sometime you need to let out the steam without hurting anyone so..... just my opinion. If it offends you, your choice by the way :)
Bengü Taşkesen 6 years ago
In jobs where the employee comes into contact with a great number of people (like bus drivers), having to deal with hundreds of what would be a small conflict in each case causes a quick burn-out. These people are probably severely depressed, too. It's smug to judge them because anyone could turn into them doing their job.
Ian Carter 6 years ago
I have been to the USA a few times and also got internal flights , every time they treat me like c**p and its not even a race thing, I am white British so God knows how bad it is if you are Non white, there are a few reasons Ill never go back to America, TSA are just one. Interestingly the people that do this job in my experience in Australia,Thailand,Hong Kong,Sri Lanka,Japan,Greece,Italy are all friendly and professional it is literally JUST America.
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
Strange, the places you mention have a culture where you do NOT argue with authority. Odd how that works, isn't it? They aren't getting the "But I'm SPECIAL" all day from idiots.
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Daniel Mattock 6 years ago
Aren’t the TSA bloody useless at security and a waste of taxpayer money?
Cheryl Goodman 1 month ago
My next trip I'm gonna leave a nice note in my luggage for TSA, thanking them for doing a thankless job
Rita OBrien 3 months ago
Some of the OPs were just plain nasty people who enjoy misery, including that of their colleagues.
Suzanne Lee 6 years ago
You don't know until you "walk a mile in her shoes." Just remember, our job is to make sure you get there in one piece. And the passengers stare liplessly. Would be nice if management were more intelligent, and work in the lines once a week. One day and this new supe was sweating like the Wookie costume. Told him I really admired him. Then later he "forgot" how it was.
Jus 6 years ago
They are frustrated, underpaid and they meet stupid people every day. I understand them somehow. I know for sure people working with customers complain all the time regardless of the place. It's not ok to wish someone death or to suggest sexual things, but don't pretend it's ok to be stupid, demanding and rude. And that you all don't comment on such behavior.
Cheryl Phelps 6 years ago
Most of the folks TSA encounters resent the fact that law-abiding folks should have to endure those protocols. That's why, I feel, they act up - out of anger and frustration that terrorists have brought them to this pass, especially since TSA in past secretly carried out performance tests have performed miserably. With that knowledge, travelers feel they are getting inconvenienced by a bunch of TSA employees unable/unwilling to do the job. TSA needs to rethink the whole system.
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
You think it's easy, hm. I think people like you should have to do it for 6 months, then give us an opinion you have weight behind. I never worked for TSA. I imagine the general garbage they put up with was much the same as I got, though--"I'm special, the rules don't apply to me, so there." And for lousy pay, insufficient personnel to do the job, etc.
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Sue Prewitt 6 years ago
Didn't even finish reading these. Just a bunch of angry people, have them in every profession
Aunt Messy 6 years ago
TSA is a joke. It's nothing more than security theater, giving uneducated idiots power to hurt people and earn money at the same time. Take a good look at these folks. You'd normally cross the street to avoid most of them, and yet they have unlimited power to feel you up, verbally abuse you, and steal your stuff. ....///... I actually had one of these idiots threaten to arrest me because I stood where I could keep my eyes on the backpack that they had taken away from me...that was full of expensive electronics. I told them to knock themselves out, my lawyer is on speed dial.
Michelle McMillan 6 years ago
It is actually required you watch as your bag is searched. And may I point out, you just used the exact language this artical stated was so bad for a TSA Officer to use. You just referred to them as "idiots" TSA does have every personality just as every other business. And in the TSA break room I assure you other officers put those who speak out of line in their rightful place. Management and Administrators are the absolute worst in most locations. In spite of that, Officers take their job very serious. They think of it as "What if my family was on that flight?" Would I want to risk my families life? You need to realize, the writer of these type articals, first searched to find inappropriate comments.over years of comments. Just look how many years were included. The people working there included the youngest Millinial who has no life experience to the oldest baby boomer. And just like customers of all businesses, there are people who are a pleasure and others who are ugly.
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Carson Skjerdal 6 years ago
Just read the top 10 or so, afterwards it's just people who need to change careers
Sam Leigh 6 years ago
Read a few and I dont see how they can even run a work facebook group & + public comments about whatI I guess are customers or clients? I don’t know what TSA actually is so...Hey fuckwits! If we lined u lot up and marched around you for a few moments followed by a bit of Facebook Comment Time, you’d be crying to yourself, your bosses and your Twitter account. But hang on! You don’t need to cry cos We (rest of the normal human race) would Never Post such terrible trash. So U r all good. How about you cut some others a little slack eh?
Lauren Christie 4 years ago
People do post vents about idiot customers all the time. Notalwaysright.com - literally tens of thousands of posts there.
Load More Replies... Trash Panda 6 years ago
All I got out of this entire post is that the majority of TSA employees are ignorant a******s that only seem miserable.
WilvanderHeijden 6 years ago
I'm sure I'll never travel to America so I'll never have to deal with one of these jerks, but I can understand why a lot of people are bashing TSA agents. They all would have had prominent positions in the NSDAP if they had lived in Germany in 1940.
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
Please stay away from my beleagered country. We have enough a******s already.
Load More Replies... Shireen 6 years ago
I don't know what to think about these... some of them are funny but honestly these people seem like the worse kind of people to work with or befriends with. This is why everyone hates airport security, they treat us like criminals and like we're idiots and apparently that's exactly how they feel?!
John L 6 years ago
What do you expect for jobs that were advertised for on Domino's Pizza boxes. Yeah, we're the dim ones....
Load More Replies... Kenny Kulbiski 6 years ago
Most of us don't fly every day so we're already semi stressed and we haven't got all the Mickey Mouse, ever changing rules memorized. It's not our fault you hate your job you'd probably hate any job. No sympathy here.
Tacitus86 6 years ago
I see nothing wrong with this, aside from one. Wishing someone's plane blows up is awful!
Liz Karsa 6 years ago
So many cretins work for TSA --- this FB group just illustrates that fact. How incredibly pathetic.
Renee Gauthier 6 years ago
You get what you pay for. Same reason for so many bad employees working fast food.
Load More Replies... Olga Antonova 6 years ago
Honestly, it is way better that I was expected. If these are their worst vents, I'd say most of them are very polite and patient people. Let’s admit there are way too many selfish, entitled, crazy or aggressive passengers at any given airport; add stress and alcohol to that, and imaging having to deal with them all day long.
LuckyL 6 years ago
I didn't expect the comments here to be so negative. Isn't everyone who works with customers annoyed by some of them and has to vent sometimes. And they see a LOT of customers every day, and probably hear the same things over and over again. So yes, it's their job, but I think it's also okay to cope with this through talking to others in the same job. And for all flights I had, I never had a bad experience, they are just people too.
Olga Antonova 6 years ago
Totally agree. Most of the people who works in retail, customer service or similar position dealing with tons of customers, are saying how exhausting it is. Most of us complain about our jobs one way or another, it is highly hypocritical to expect TSA agents to be saints.
Load More Replies... TheDivineMs.M 6 years ago
I used to work for CVS Pharmacy- we had a Facebook group called CVS stole my soul where we'd complain about customers, etc
Me Myself and I 6 years ago
You gotta know how to handle people. Like how to respond to those who complain about other airports being different. Simply tell them it's to keep them safe. If every airport used the same procedures, the 'bad guys' would know what to avoid. You're welcome.
The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
This just seemed like a compilation of typical Facebook posts to me....
Geoffrey Holland 6 years ago
Aside from the kid in the stroller one, I don't have a problem with any of these. These are not bad vents. This is reality and you could do the same sort of group for any group of employees that deal with humans on a daily basis and you'd hear the same kind of stuff.
John Louis 6 years ago
This posts come off as weak, petty, small minded and by people who should never have power over others. I doubt they make air travel any safer and are part of an brutally intrusive system.
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
Try doing the job for 6 months. Then get back to us and tell us how polite all the passengers are.
Load More Replies... Cherelyn Willet 6 years ago
I hope nobody gets in trouble for this. They have a sucktastic job and they are just venting. Let them vent.
Sterre Klaver 6 years ago
There is tons and tons of articles and lists exactly the same as this but by sales clerks, wait staff, reception staff etc. Why is this such a big deal? People in any kind of costumer service are gonna complain about who they have to deal with
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
And better than going off and seriously harming someone. This is also a very dangerous job at some undetermined moment.
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 6 years ago (edited)
I used to work for TSA and I remember staff looking forward to difficult passengers because they entertained us. The day is so monotonous until some passenger starts freaking out and yelling about being patted down or having their luggage searched. For us it was like watching TV.
✎Kinda_Scarlett 6 years ago
I don't see much wrong with most of these. People need to rant about their jobs every now and then! Yes, I few might be terrible but still. We often complain about TSA employees without even realizing it, they should get a chance to do the same back at us. As long as they don't say anything too cruel (ex: being racist), then I see nothing wrong with this group existing.
Victoria Swift 6 years ago
So? Almost every work type has these secret FB groups. Hell, I belong to one for the wives of what my husband does for a living because it's so freaking specific very few people understand the lifestyle. I guess I don't get the big deal. It's the same as all those waiter/waitress groups that post giant festivus complaints about their customers.
Terapeg Guana 6 years ago
This is pretty normal. Most everyone that works with people does this. Y'all should hear some of the s**t food service workers have to say.
Jeff Requier 6 years ago
Its a secret group and some whiny b***h got in and than ratted them out, stop being offended
Terapeg Guana 6 years ago
This is pretty normal. Most everyone that works with people has a vent board, in fact there are entire reddit communities dedicated to the nonsense that customers pull/try to pull.
Craig Silberman 6 years ago
this post did nothing to improve my opinion of TSA employees; if anything, it confirmed my worst suspicions about them, and made me fear for our safety if they're the ones responsible for it
Leo Domitrix 6 years ago
Well, y'know, back at 'em on charges of idiocy and similar. I was a regular "target". (Do they share info on passengers who are a "good patdown"?!) And my complaint? Laughed off. "What did you expect?"... BTW, the female agent "in the room"? Had her back turned and/or was staring at a phone each of the *four* times this happened. And I ain't that shapely. One confiscated my bra, btw, and shook the plastic "underwires" at me like I'd tried to kill someone. Yep, tore apart the bra to prove it was dangerous and he had reason to grope. Ugh.
Dorothy Parker 6 years ago (edited)
Had to stop reading. So much disrespect for the public and their jobs. Really an ugly contribution. Oh, plus fat shaming. All bad.
Jennie Stilton 4 years ago
The TSA screening is stressful, and add to the stress that the rules are different from one airport to another, so we really don't know what to expect. More often than not, when my fellow passengers are confused and do the "wrong" things, TSA agents yell and treat them like they are intentionally disobeying orders. This adds to the stress. It's not too much to ask for consistency. If you are going to make me take my shoes off and present my snacks at one airport, then it should be followed at every airport.
Jeff Requier 6 years ago
Cry cry cry, they are aloud to f****n vent about dealing with you s**t heads. They also were working and NOT GETTING PAID just a short time ago.
Eva Zaqqum 6 years ago
Not that bad. I wouldn't blame them. It's their group on a social media, why not. What I find silly is that someone went there to print screen their posts.... Oh like a little kid, "oh look what are they doing" :D They're not hurting anybody, right? I don't say they're nice people though, but it's ok. Maybe they're brunt out? That would be the worst scenario. I know some doctors and nurses, if they would create a page on fb/twitter/whatever and share their ordinary issues with patiens in a kind of black humoured style... I wouldn't blame them as well. Sometime you need to let out the steam without hurting anyone so..... just my opinion. If it offends you, your choice by the way :)
Bengü Taşkesen 6 years ago
In jobs where the employee comes into contact with a great number of people (like bus drivers), having to deal with hundreds of what would be a small conflict in each case causes a quick burn-out. These people are probably severely depressed, too. It's smug to judge them because anyone could turn into them doing their job.
Ian Carter 6 years ago
I have been to the USA a few times and also got internal flights , every time they treat me like c**p and its not even a race thing, I am white British so God knows how bad it is if you are Non white, there are a few reasons Ill never go back to America, TSA are just one. Interestingly the people that do this job in my experience in Australia,Thailand,Hong Kong,Sri Lanka,Japan,Greece,Italy are all friendly and professional it is literally JUST America.
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
Strange, the places you mention have a culture where you do NOT argue with authority. Odd how that works, isn't it? They aren't getting the "But I'm SPECIAL" all day from idiots.
Load More Replies... Daniel Mattock 6 years ago
Aren’t the TSA bloody useless at security and a waste of taxpayer money?
Cheryl Goodman 1 month ago
My next trip I'm gonna leave a nice note in my luggage for TSA, thanking them for doing a thankless job
Rita OBrien 3 months ago
Some of the OPs were just plain nasty people who enjoy misery, including that of their colleagues.
Suzanne Lee 6 years ago
You don't know until you "walk a mile in her shoes." Just remember, our job is to make sure you get there in one piece. And the passengers stare liplessly. Would be nice if management were more intelligent, and work in the lines once a week. One day and this new supe was sweating like the Wookie costume. Told him I really admired him. Then later he "forgot" how it was.
Jus 6 years ago
They are frustrated, underpaid and they meet stupid people every day. I understand them somehow. I know for sure people working with customers complain all the time regardless of the place. It's not ok to wish someone death or to suggest sexual things, but don't pretend it's ok to be stupid, demanding and rude. And that you all don't comment on such behavior.
Cheryl Phelps 6 years ago
Most of the folks TSA encounters resent the fact that law-abiding folks should have to endure those protocols. That's why, I feel, they act up - out of anger and frustration that terrorists have brought them to this pass, especially since TSA in past secretly carried out performance tests have performed miserably. With that knowledge, travelers feel they are getting inconvenienced by a bunch of TSA employees unable/unwilling to do the job. TSA needs to rethink the whole system.
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
You think it's easy, hm. I think people like you should have to do it for 6 months, then give us an opinion you have weight behind. I never worked for TSA. I imagine the general garbage they put up with was much the same as I got, though--"I'm special, the rules don't apply to me, so there." And for lousy pay, insufficient personnel to do the job, etc.
Load More Replies... Sue Prewitt 6 years ago
Didn't even finish reading these. Just a bunch of angry people, have them in every profession
Aunt Messy 6 years ago
TSA is a joke. It's nothing more than security theater, giving uneducated idiots power to hurt people and earn money at the same time. Take a good look at these folks. You'd normally cross the street to avoid most of them, and yet they have unlimited power to feel you up, verbally abuse you, and steal your stuff. ....///... I actually had one of these idiots threaten to arrest me because I stood where I could keep my eyes on the backpack that they had taken away from me...that was full of expensive electronics. I told them to knock themselves out, my lawyer is on speed dial.
Michelle McMillan 6 years ago
It is actually required you watch as your bag is searched. And may I point out, you just used the exact language this artical stated was so bad for a TSA Officer to use. You just referred to them as "idiots" TSA does have every personality just as every other business. And in the TSA break room I assure you other officers put those who speak out of line in their rightful place. Management and Administrators are the absolute worst in most locations. In spite of that, Officers take their job very serious. They think of it as "What if my family was on that flight?" Would I want to risk my families life? You need to realize, the writer of these type articals, first searched to find inappropriate comments.over years of comments. Just look how many years were included. The people working there included the youngest Millinial who has no life experience to the oldest baby boomer. And just like customers of all businesses, there are people who are a pleasure and others who are ugly.
Load More Replies... Carson Skjerdal 6 years ago
Just read the top 10 or so, afterwards it's just people who need to change careers
Sam Leigh 6 years ago
Read a few and I dont see how they can even run a work facebook group & + public comments about whatI I guess are customers or clients? I don’t know what TSA actually is so...Hey fuckwits! If we lined u lot up and marched around you for a few moments followed by a bit of Facebook Comment Time, you’d be crying to yourself, your bosses and your Twitter account. But hang on! You don’t need to cry cos We (rest of the normal human race) would Never Post such terrible trash. So U r all good. How about you cut some others a little slack eh?
Lauren Christie 4 years ago
People do post vents about idiot customers all the time. Notalwaysright.com - literally tens of thousands of posts there.
Load More Replies... Trash Panda 6 years ago
All I got out of this entire post is that the majority of TSA employees are ignorant a******s that only seem miserable.
WilvanderHeijden 6 years ago
I'm sure I'll never travel to America so I'll never have to deal with one of these jerks, but I can understand why a lot of people are bashing TSA agents. They all would have had prominent positions in the NSDAP if they had lived in Germany in 1940.
Karen Klinck 6 years ago
Please stay away from my beleagered country. We have enough a******s already.
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