2 million screenings per day, stuff happens. PayPal does 13 million transactions a day, I bet somebody somewhere got ripped off. Before ranting, please consider that you may not be a snowflake and that even the finest systems occasionally harm people.
Systems are imperfect and we should always try to add nines but there's a "how can this happen to me?" bias to this stuff that is really, really uninteresting. These posts are no different than BuzzFeed -- pushing buttons, attaching yourself to a brand (in this case the TSA), desperate to get heard.
Like the Google couple who couldn't believe that their car dealership wanted a fingerprint when they tried to buy a $80,000 BMW with cash, not everything has to generate an emotion and attention-seeking essay. As in that case, once the smoke clears these posts usually do little but make the author look foolish.
I don't know about you but "couldn't manage to travel with a laptop" isn't something I want permanently attached to my name in Google results.
Systems are imperfect and we should always try to add nines but there's a "how can this happen to me?" bias to this stuff that is really, really uninteresting. These posts are no different than BuzzFeed -- pushing buttons, attaching yourself to a brand (in this case the TSA), desperate to get heard.
Like the Google couple who couldn't believe that their car dealership wanted a fingerprint when they tried to buy a $80,000 BMW with cash, not everything has to generate an emotion and attention-seeking essay. As in that case, once the smoke clears these posts usually do little but make the author look foolish.
I don't know about you but "couldn't manage to travel with a laptop" isn't something I want permanently attached to my name in Google results.