TSA Worker With 18 Years Of Experience Gets Blatantly Honest About What They’ve Seen

Good for you!

Precisely. Do not volunteer random information. If they ask, be truthful of course.

Rude workers exist in all public-facing industries.

That’s true in many occupations, unfortunately. IMHO, nobody should be a supervisor unless they have worked in the job they’ll be supervising.

Management. It figures.

Thats everywhere. If you have a bad boss, trick him into self sabotage. Frag him

The only time I was pulled aside and had my bag searched was for a bag of rocks 😅 I was leaving Louisiana after a family visit to Mom's; she had taken us to the Shreveport aquarium. They had this fun river-panning activity, you paid for a big bag of sand and with water and sifters got to find and keep cool rocks, crystals, and even fossils! The kids loved it, heck I loved it lol. So I could see how my baggy of souvenir rocks and crystals might look a little sus lol...

They don't have the time or capacity to care what color you are. Step out of yourself for ten seconds.

I hadthis once at an airport and they were like nope never mind , he didn’t wanna answer the question

Ha, the WORST airport security issues I've had have been every time I've been through Heathrow in the UK. Rude, lazy, aggressive... doesn't mean entering/leaving the US is a dream but it hasn't been awful every time.

We’re America. We do everything the hard way.

Have a friend who's a lawyer, a senior counsel. She has a face that looks middle eastern, but she's not and has no family that is. 80% of the time when she travels she gets pulled for searches. I suspect there's some kind of profiling going on.

Sounds like any other job to me...

I’ve got to say, I’m in the UK and I wouldn’t take anything like that in hand luggage, that’s just asking for trouble.

Or avoid JFK for layovers; it's miserable for lots of reasons.

Don’t blame you one bit. Yolo

Flying in general is like riding a Greyhound bus, only 100x more expensive.

Yes, but, if you are taking ANY narcotics (Adderall) or controlled substances (Xanax, Klonopin) you HAVE to have the actual bottle with the prescription label on it. It's illegal to travel without. (I know cause I'm required to carry my entire bottle of klonopin when traveling now and I was required to carry my entire bottle of Metadate (methylamphetamine) when I was being medicated for my AD/HD, I wish I could just take my pill case)

I’ll keep that in mind and try to avoid flying through Charlotte.

Fewer managers: they're not measured by weight or volume.

All too true. Recently went through a RIF (reduction in force) round of layoffs. Management wasn't touched. Everyone else, just do much more for the same amount of pay.

Lol overnights in a wafer fab if youre looking for OPP

“I’ve lost a few knives and Leathermans to the TSA” - how long did it take this person to learn a very basic and straight forward lesson???

They don't discriminate, they hate everyone

Just admit it TSA dude, you were hungry...

Riiiiiiight……..

Even simple background checks would take too much time for a TSA pre-flight inspection and would require access to state/federal databases. Imagine the lines then! Plus judging by the OP's responses about coworkers, you really don't want lazy, inept, stupid people to have access to something like the FBI databases.

I don't understand these words when put together. Individually, I understand them.

You forget your wallet at the airport of the US’s second largest city, and didn’t even notice until well in the air? you should have zero expectations other than to not be so foolishly careless next time. Source - I lived in LA for 13 years (still do, just no longer based there thank GOD).

Some of those scanners are amazing - I was stopped one time due to a bandaid on my heel over a blister. Super impressive to pick up something so small.

Sounds like the people in charge are pitting the agents against each other, trying to increase distrust. Why am I not surprised?

Have I ever saved a person's life? Not directly, no. How would you deal with X? If the situation comes up, I'll handle it. I did the first round but never got called back. I'm an indepenent thinker, I'm a problem solver. Some agencies like that, most dont.

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I would think there would need to be some agents still to handle outlier cases

Anything you buy at an airport is way overpriced. I try to avoid that as much as possible.

???? Don’t they have conveyor belts to carry the trays back to the front? That’s just basic, I thought.