Adios TSA

jimlongley · #1

Not totally gun, shooting, or equipment related, but I will probably get to shoot more.

I have left TSA and will be traveling myself now, as an instructor teaching some new equipment, both software and hardware, to users across the country. I'll be away from home a LOT but my wife has her XD9, the shotgun, and the dogs to help guard the house, and I may get more trigger time.

I will probably also vent my REAL feelings about TSA here and there, but first I have to get over the shock of transition, this was a very fast hire.

KBCraig · #2

Congratulations! Good for you, but bad for TSA and the flying public. TSA's collective knowledge about their own rules and laws has probably been cut in half with your departure.

I look forward to hearing some of the things you've been biting your tongue about.

Kevin

yerasimos · #3

Congratulations on your new job! It sounds like you are returning to the private sector, yes? Some extra $$$ (to help fund the extra trigger time, among other things)?

Go ahead and vent when you get yourself together . . . In the meantime, and always, we wish you the best.

Paladin · #4

I'll add my congratulations! Sounds like a great new opportunity! (Not just the new job, but getting to shoot more

)

KBCraig · #5

I guess the downside is that with all that travel, you'll have to fly, and be at the hands of the TSA.

Kevin

HighVelocity · #6

Congrats! I've heard that work for TSA was painful. Travelling isn't so bad once you get used to it. I fly around the country on a weekly basis and it doesn't phase me after doing it 10 years.
YOu'll figure out where all the cool things are in each airport, like the 20oz bottles of water for $1 etc.
Good luck to you!

Lumberjack98 · #7

Congratulations on the new job. Make sure you let folks know when you'll be in there town so that you can get some extra trigger time in with some of the fine folks at the forum here.

Kalrog · #8

I was hoping that the TSA was going away... you got my hopes up - bad for you.

But congrats!

John · #9

KBCraig wrote:I guess the downside is that with all that travel, you'll have to fly, and be at the hands of the TSA.

Kevin

Sometimes Irony can be pretty Ironic

good luck though on your new endeavor.

stevie_d_64 · #10

John wrote:
KBCraig wrote:I guess the downside is that with all that travel, you'll have to fly, and be at the hands of the TSA.

Kevin
Sometimes Irony can be pretty Ironic

good luck though on your new endeavor.

I was thinking the same thing...

Good luck Jim...

Don't get put on that "watch list" now...

jimlongley · #11

stevie_d_64 wrote:
John wrote:
KBCraig wrote:I guess the downside is that with all that travel, you'll have to fly, and be at the hands of the TSA.

Kevin
Sometimes Irony can be pretty Ironic

good luck though on your new endeavor.
I was thinking the same thing...

Good luck Jim...

Don't get put on that "watch list" now...

I think I signed a paper placing me on the permanent watch list during my exit.

dws1117 · #12

Congratulations on your new job! Here's hoping for all the best.

jimlongley · #13

Well, here I sit in Omaha, NE going to some training starting tomorrow, and the TSA has already chapped my butt. They opened my bag and didn't do a good job closing it, not that I lost anything, but just the same, and they removed the strap from my bag and didn't put it inside (it may have fallen out where they left the zipper open.

Haven't even been gone two days and already I'm writing letters to them.