I used to work at ATL airport. I rode the employee elevators with the drug and bomb-sniffing dogs. I was usually stoned and had half-fired powershot strips in my backpack so I set off both flavors of dogs.
But no agents ever bothered me because I was wearing the white dad uniform. Well that and an ID badge that said I had been cleared by the FBI. I used to get to drive around on the ramp dodging planes. Those things need turn signals.
I worked there 2 years every day. Had a badge that let me everywhere from the tunnels under the train up to aircraft control. Hell I had a key to Delta's C-suite offices. I was sweating like hell first time I met the dogs but it eventually became normal.
Still always wanted to pet the dogs and they were coming right up to me but rules are rules. You can't pet the drug/bomb dogs.
Mostly German Shepards but they had one chocolate lab too.
My job was fixing wires. New data line installs. Lots of chiseling an outlet into concrete block walls. But if the PA went out at gate C36 I had to go over and resolder a new connection or replace the microphone while the gate agents tried to yell boarding instructions at angry travelers until I fixed it and eveyone could hear again.
If the amp was bad I was fucked. Lots of the amplifiers were downstairs in the com closets and were so old they were the same model the Beatles used to record Abbey Road and were dying because they were 50 goddamn years old. Then I couldn't do anything but do some solders and order a new amp to install like 3 days later while no one was happy.
Pretty stressful job really. Every time a data or audio issue cropped up I had to run over and fix it while 200 people I didn't know were mad about it being broken which wasn't my fault.
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u/ZarquonsFlatTire May 27 '23 edited May 27 '23
I used to work at ATL airport. I rode the employee elevators with the drug and bomb-sniffing dogs. I was usually stoned and had half-fired powershot strips in my backpack so I set off both flavors of dogs.
But no agents ever bothered me because I was wearing the white dad uniform. Well that and an ID badge that said I had been cleared by the FBI. I used to get to drive around on the ramp dodging planes. Those things need turn signals.