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Just get TSA pre-check. It's so freaking easy and it makes airport security checkpoints not a big deal at all.
Just get TSA pre-check. It's so freaking easy and it makes airport security checkpoints not a big deal at all.
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Try asking them why they're not wearing dosimeters. They get really defensive!
This CDC study[0] looked into that question, the answer was inconclusive (with some workers receiving a higher annual dose than is allowed, while most received a safe dosage). The problem seems to be malfunctioning scanners. [0] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/2003-0206-3067.pd...
The moment I pull out my ipad and macbook and entrust the fate of around 3000 dollars worth of electronics to the competence and benevolence of government officials who barely give a shit is my least favorite part of the travel experience
I don’t know why, but for me it’s the shoes. My laptop bag makes it fairly easy to take my laptop out and put it back in, but dealing with taking my shoes on and off really fucking bugs me. It’s totally irrational, I know.
About a year ago I was at an airport (Boston? New Jersey?) outbound that had a sign or TV monitor saying "Great news, you no longer need to take your laptop out of your bag!" I read this sign as a TSA worker shouted every 30 seconds to the shuffling line about how everyone needed to take out all laptops, "ipads", cameras, etc. I wonder if it was a pilot program. Or more likely, just part of the constantly shifting fa…
About a year ago I was at an airport (Boston? New Jersey?) outbound that had a sign or TV monitor saying "Great news, you no longer need to take your laptop out of your bag!" I read this sign as a TSA worker shouted every 30 seconds to the shuffling line about how everyone needed to take out all laptops, "ipads", cameras, etc. I wonder if it was a pilot program. Or more likely, just part of the constantly shifting fa…
Yeah, it's always up to the whims of the underpaid TSA agent who happens to be there that day. Back when iPads were new, I got scolded for taking it out of my bag, and scolded for leaving it in my bag, by agents at the same airport on two trips a few weeks apart.
CMH->MCO ‘remove your belts please’
MCO->SEA ‘keep your belts on’
SEA->CMH ‘i’d recommend you take your belt off’
Just get TSA pre-check. It's so freaking easy and it makes airport security checkpoints not a big deal at all.
About a year ago I was at an airport (Boston? New Jersey?) outbound that had a sign or TV monitor saying "Great news, you no longer need to take your laptop out of your bag!" I read this sign as a TSA worker shouted every 30 seconds to the shuffling line about how everyone needed to take out all laptops, "ipads", cameras, etc. I wonder if it was a pilot program. Or more likely, just part of the constantly shifting fa…
Yeah, it's always up to the whims of the underpaid TSA agent who happens to be there that day. Back when iPads were new, I got scolded for taking it out of my bag, and scolded for leaving it in my bag, by agents at the same airport on two trips a few weeks apart.
You are describing the the usual daily cluster-fuck of life in the military, and in fact, government service in general. I don't know why it is that way, but it is. I have not experienced it in my now 20 years of life in the private sector, but back when I was in the military it's just like that, all the time.
Just get TSA pre-check. It's so freaking easy and it makes airport security checkpoints not a big deal at all.
More customers paying for pre-check incentivizes TSA to make the regular experience comparatively worse.