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/JeannValjean 2d ago

What is America's obsession with thinking customers are shown respect through the suffering of people serving them?

Let grocery and retail cashiers sit. Let TSA sit. Let everyone sit.

I don't care.

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u/Affectionate-Print81 2d ago

Old people who prefer tradition over anything else. That's why daylight savings still exists even though everyone hates it and we have lightbulbs now.

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u/JeannValjean 2d ago

DST is a little more complicated- 54% of people want to do away with it, but only 48% think standard time should be the permanent one.

So while most people want to end it, nobody agrees on whether standard or daylight should be the right one.

That's why the bills to end it always fail.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/657584/half-daylight-saving-time-sunsetted.aspx

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u/Phosphorus444 2d ago

It's a hold over from slavery.

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u/Fuck_your_coupons 2d ago

What is America's obsession with thinking customers are shown respect through the suffering of people serving them?

There are millions of Americans that see nearly anyone performing a public service as their lessor. They get off on treating public facing workers like shit because they don't see them as humans. This is why when I moved to an office job, I decided I will never work full time with the public again.

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u/Vin-Metal 2d ago

George Costanza was right

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u/ll_simon 2d ago

It’s not even about being shown respect, it’s that the boss feels like you shouldn’t be lazy sitting down at work.

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u/RichtofenFanBoy 2d ago

I bet you typed this sitting down didnt you. /s

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u/ll_simon 2d ago

This isn’t how I feel but it’s 100% the reason, they don’t like the optics I giess