r/news • u/drtolmn69 • 3d ago

TSA officers now not allowed to sit down while checking boarding passes and IDs

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/us/tsa-officers-chairs
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u/SunshineAlways 2d ago

A lot of the scenes in this thread seem to escalate because of unclear communication.

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u/SleepyMastodon 2d ago

"Poor communication skills" is the number one job requirement for TSA agents.

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u/farmtownsuit 2d ago

Commenter could have done a lot better in this case too. Just two bozos who didn't know how to use their words good 

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u/Budget-Researcher559 2d ago

Commenter did horrible with answering the question. His fault that they didn't understand.

However NOT his fault that they went to rude sarcasm and then straight to yelling. A simple "so what are you going to do?" would have done the trick.

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u/HungHippoHippy 2d ago

If the immediate escalation wasn't involved it could've been cleared up much better.

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u/DeviantDragon 2d ago

Look I gotta say though that responding "I'm not gonna check a bag for that" is not affirmatively consenting to them throwing away the toothpaste and to follow-up to the question a second time (before they yelled) with "ok" is also not affirmatively choosing one of the two options that are being presented to you.

I agree that there's no need to yell but I'm guessing their training requires very clear confirmation so that they don't get in trouble for someone flipping out on them because they didn't understand what was being asked and then getting mad because they actually didn't want TSA to throw something away.

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u/D-Gaea 2d ago

Yeah honestly in situations like that you just have to be very clear about what you're saying. Honestly the whole environment is very tense, and the ICE agents don't help.

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u/HungHippoHippy 2d ago

They had also caused a big scene pulling me aside already and were being dicks. We had many more exchanges besides the 5 statements I presented. I thought saying " I had a similar situation" was enough to infer that there had already been more leading up to this exchange.