Security update
I’ve noted here before (precisely, here and here) how, um, idiosyncratic airline security measures are here in the U.S. You’d have better luck calling the drop at a roulette table than knowing what to expect going through a security line. Now TSA Administrator John Poole says he’s concluded the equivalent of a listening tour, and is going to implement some changes, including turning the question of whether or not to frisk kids over to the discretion of individual screeners. But that doesn’t exactly sound like a better process, does it?
November 7th, 2011 at 5:33 pm
What you describe here sort of the equivalent of turning over the reins of the Department of Agriculture Office of Food and Nutrition Ethics – – to a high school kid working the french fryer at McDonalds. The TSA ‘Screeners’ if that’s what they’re calling them this week, are getting a title far grander than any function they perform. A conveyer belt has more critical thinking skills than those folks do, and they move a lot faster too! And I just finished my first day of WORK!
November 8th, 2011 at 4:17 am
If you got paid what they’re getting, maybe you’d act like that, too.