Posted on 07/22/2014 4:33:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
This is more about selling gold than the TSA.
‘you know sams club is owned by walmart, right?’
You might want to reread my post, in it I say that I know it is owned by Walmart.
She isn’t my cashier anymore. I was in sales for roughly 23 years and I detest bad service and will not tolerate it. Most places I go I can tell that the people working there have no idea how to treat a customer. They have never been trained. Takes one time and I do not return.
Problem is, I am running out of places that I will go to. I may be overly sensitive to bad service. Or I may be getting old and cranky. That is very possible too.
This is so true. I was meeting an arival at the Cleveland Airport one day a couple weekends ago. Just an ordinary afternoon with light traffic, but at least twelve (12) TSA agents wandering around. Two were episodically engaged in screening the occasional departure. The rest I swear were walking around in large lazy circles trying to look busy, sometimes stopping to chat with colleagues. Nothing was being done. Nothing. But the smell of burning tax dollars was unmistakeable.
So, how much better do you think they will be after they unionize?
OH...
WAIT.....
Had some stuff to big for my washer to handle. Went to local laundromat, lady met me at the door and pointed to a sign saying no customers after 7:30, I said it is 7:30 on the nose. She said no can do. I said I will never be back and left. They were open till 9:00 and I only needed to wash a couple of comforters. So I went to the other one and got them done, no problem.
I do not know these people, they only recently bought it from the previous owner. I had dealt with the previous owner on and off for years with no problem. I doubt they will be in business very long with their attitude. And they shouldn’t be.
Has anybody ever missed a flight due to the lines at TSA security? I don't think so. TSA employees will thoughtfully bring people to the front who need to board flights that are about to immediately depart, even though those passengers had the discourtesy to arrive late and inconvenienced other passengers who had the foresight to arrive early.
I am a frequent traveller and whenever I arrive, the TSA employees are always beaming and happy to see me. I don't know what it is but maybe it's because I'm usually wearing a business suit and have a positive, clean-cut appearance. As opposed to those who show up in ratty shorts, slippers, bed hair, and a bad attitude. Sometimes I look like Don Draper and I think the TSA people appreciate that.
Never had a hassle going through TSA so I don't know what all the fuss it about. Sometimes they will wave a wand over me but that doesn't bug me at all. Usually I'll use this occasion to crack a joke, such as "if you find anything valuable in there, let me know" and it gets them laughing every time.
I'm thinking if you go into the TSA line dressed like a slob and displaying a less than optimum attitude, you are going to get hassled a bit. To those people, I say get a haircut, put on some decent clothes and put a smile on your face.
I’ve never had them turn off the light with my merchandise on the conveyer. I’ve seen cashiers “Tag team” in or out when someone has to go on break so another takes over the register. On rare occasions I’ve heard them tell customers getting in line that they couldn’t take any more.
I’ve never seen them turn away a customer after the customer already emptied the cart.
Maybe they were related? I would assume a name like Skousen is not very common
Mark is Cleon Skousen’s nephew, per the Wikipedia article.
My intuition was right then.
Well, what are they open for then? Nothing? This bugs me when I show up for a last minute errand which will only take a moment and they "close" 5 minutes early. Or when I've been standing in line at the checkout and the registers are shut off.
It also bugs me when the store uses "closing time" to stop the clock on hourly employees but requires them to hang around while the store is not open.
These issues are of course mostly insignificant. But annoying.
Yes, I did miss a flight at Dulles because of TSA. My family got in the security line at 0600 for a 0735 flight on a Saturday morning. It looked like we were waiting in line for an E-Ticket ride at Disney World in the height of tourist season. We were told something about not scheduling enough agents to come in that early. It took us 2 hours to get through security. Then of course every flight after us was full and it took most of the day to get out.
Years ago...I used to utilize the Ramstein BX (at the base in Germany). We had one particular clerk that would pull roughly 25 hours a week at one of the check-out lanes. The best you could say about “Freddy”....was it took him three times as long as any clerk....to swipe items across the scanner....bag the items....and get your pay situation done. Just walking up with a tube of toothpaste and a bar of soap....which ought to take sixty seconds max to scan, bag and pay (in cash)....turned into a three minute episode. Got twenty items? You can figure roughly twelve minutes to get your purchase done. The BX management? They didn’t care.
At some point, I went to a on-post hotel within Germany and one night had to deal with the front-desk clerk. The guy had to be on medication, and was totally inept at typing. The sign-in process took twenty-two minutes....for fifteen bits of information for the hotel computer system. I even offered to pay in cash....to avoid another five minutes of this dimwit.
The problem is that we’ve turned so many jobs in America in dimwit jobs. TSA, 7-11, bus drivers, hotel clerks, McDonalds, etc. These positions are filled to the top of the line with dysfunctional people....some on drugs....some just naturally dimwitted. You can’t avoid them now. Traveling by air, rail, or bus? You have a fifty-fifty shot of having to deal with one. Buying a Big-Gulp? Same chance with the store clerk. Checking into a cheaper-run hotel? Same chance.
So, we come to my last comparison....we got to the point of even accepting mediocre men for President....believing a marginally qualified guy with no real resume but great speaking talents could do the job. We (enough voters anyway) even accepted that idea. It makes me wonder if the nuke plants are going the same way, and recruiting the bottom tier of workers.
Disagree. It’s either open at 759 or it isn’t.
Exactly. If I were in business, I would want customers.
I remember while in the Navy in the late 70's going through a walk through metal scan and if it sounded getting the wand. The lines moved fast. Domestic attacks via plane were considered a possible threat even during WW2. Up stream of the Manhattan Project at Norris dam were gun placements.
TSA is an abandonment of common sense and a total surrendering of rights and dignity for a false sense of security. If the State Department, Immigration Services, and Intel services, had been doing their job the 9/11 attack would not have happened. Red Flags were everywhere. Political Correctness in our government agencies caused those flags to be ignored.
My last plane ride and I do mean it was my last was back in 1984 onboard a military cargo plane returning from Ft Pickett on a weekend Bivouac for cannon live fire training. I have no reason to fly and if I want to go anywhere requiring an ocean crossing I'll book a room on a freighter or a cruise liner. Otherwise I'll drive but I will not fly. TSA and the airlines have made it as painstakingly difficult as possible.
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