Originally Posted by
Tumaras
Freethought project? Seems a little tinfoil hat to generalize the TSA who has over 50,000 officers as all tyrannical and corrupt. I think the cases of the things pointed out are probably in the sub .1% range when you're talking about that many agents handling safety checks for almost 2 million people in the US flying daily.
On top of that, it's not like TSA agents are a super-skilled high-paying job. All it takes is a high school diploma and making it through an interview and background check, and the pay is just in the $25k-30k/yr range. Not that salary is an excuse, but when you have that many employees working in a high-stress, repetitive and boring, relatively low-pay, and frankly (no offense to TSA agents) but not super-high skilled or growth-type job dealing with masses of public people, it's not surprising if there are a few bad ones. I've never had trouble and I've been surprised to see agents be friendly when dealing with lots of rude, sweaty, grumpy, ungrateful travelers.