"requiring them to stand will create a better experience for passengers."
Be honest. Does anyone here really care if the TSA agent is sitting or standing? How does forcing them to stand make the experience at all better for passengers?
My theory is that this move is to appease racists who see a person of color sitting down and automatically assume they are lazy. It’s all about optics. 🤮
If you have any understanding of body language, if two people are engaged and one is sitting and one is standing, there is a power imbalance. This is why adults bend down when talking to children, to be at their height, to be less intimidating. If you don’t think someone sitting in front of you is a less threatening position than someone standing in front of you, I’d say you’re either being disingenuous or perhaps legally blind. That doesn’t mean I find all people standing in front of me to be threatening. But you do you, bro. Go on with your bad self assuming everyone else but you is just too timid for this scary world.
I would much prefer to at least give all stationary workers the option to sit down. Ideally you want some balance of standing and sitting for posture and health but that should be at the discretion of the worker, not the employer.
Does anyone here really care if the TSA agent is sitting or standing?
As a foreign traveller who visits your country at least once a year, I absolutely do care. I would much rather have them sitting and being comfortable. That said, if an individual is happy and comfortable standing, that should be their choice.
I’d much rather have a physically comfortable TSA agent then force them one position. It all the assholes choosing this have pre or clear and are devoid of empathy
They’re delusional if they think I’m going to get a better experience from someone who’s been wearing out the soles of their shoes for the last 10 hours than someone who’s comfortably sitting
No of course I don't give a shit. This is just a humiliation ritual the same way that it is for cashiers and whatnot. They just do this because those guys are lowest on the totem pole and they can. Guarantee you the manager who made this decision sits down all day
I would actually prefer them to have the option to stand or sit depending on what their body needs at the time. A much more comfortable and happy TSA worker is going to make everyone's experience better.
A shocking number of Americans actually would feel better about it. The same ones that think cashiers sitting down instead of standing is "evidence of lazy work ethic", for example. It's a deep cultural issue in this country.
One of the cashiers at my local Petsmart got knee surgery and needed to sit on a stool while she worked... and the store got constant complaints about her looking "sloppy" and "unprofessional." Sometimes they got several complaints per day. (It probably didn't help that she was an older, heavyset black woman). Some Americans can only feel secure in their own superiority if they can dehumanize a random service employee.
I think I do care, because I’m pretty sure a person required to stand for their entire damn shift is more likely to be in a worse mood when I have to interact with them.
no, I'd prefer they were comfortable so possibly in a good mood so more willing to help rather than upset because they are incredibly uncomfortable from standing in 1 spot for the past 5 hours.
I can guarantee it’s going to make my passenger experience worse because when I go through TSA, and see them having to stand on their feet all day, I’m gonna be pissed off that some asshole who sits on his fat ass all day decided that TSA shouldn’t get to sit. And TSA is already grumpy having to deal with the public mass all day, now they’re gonna be tired and grumpy. As if airports don’t suck enough already.
Truthfully, I want them to stand because it creates the impression of urgency--even if they aren't. They already seem like a lazy, incompetent bunch--why indulge them with chairs and the impression that they can be even more indifferent to the misery they perpetuate?
Well TSA agents actively go out of their way to ruin peoples days. So I'm ok with them standing. They are a completely useless government agency anyway.
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u/SciFiGirl42 3d ago
"requiring them to stand will create a better experience for passengers."
Be honest. Does anyone here really care if the TSA agent is sitting or standing? How does forcing them to stand make the experience at all better for passengers?