‘Empty everything? You got it!’: Employee cleverly complies with security guard's demands to empty everything in their bag, resulting in line holdup when more employees follow suit

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    Empty everything from my bag? You got it!
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    Standard disclaimer: On mobile, so pardon any typos. Last time I checked, English was my first language. I work in a transportation facility which requires me to go through
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    a security checkpoint that inspects bags and such and you have to go through a metal detector. They require us to remove any electronics or wires from our bags. Since I'm a
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    technician, I carry a laptop and network cables in my bag plus some small hand tools. I was told I can leave the hand tools in the bag but the wires and electronic have to be taken out. Fine. So I've
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    been doing this for months... until yesterday. I go through as usual, unpacking my bag of the required items and putting them in the bin and send it through. I
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    send my bag afterwards. Xray says nothing so I start reloading my bag. This is when xray stops talking to her coworker friends and realizes
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    she has to work. They start going through my bag, pulling out everything I just put back in telling me "This is supposed to come out and go in a bin."
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    I did. You weren't paying attention. Xray then proceeds to tell me "anything metal has to come out... everything has to come out."
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    Fine. Today rolls around and the same person is running xray. So I take all of my usual stuff out of my bag and put it in a bin. Then I start removing everything from
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    my bag. Tissue pack? Check. Quick wipes? Check. Pens? Check. Candy wrapper from three days ago? Check.... you get the point. Every... single... item... I pulled from my bag. Meanwhile xray is
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    getting testy and a line is forming behind me. Xray tells me I'm holding up the line. Sorry, you said EVERYTHING. After my bins and empty bag go through the xray and come out, I begin to repack everything while
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    watching the line behind me. A guy is now doing the same thing I just did... pulling everything from his bag. "You did tell that guy everything. I don't want to get in trouble..." The next guy behind him started doing it as well.
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    As I set my bag on the floor and began to walk away, I turned to xray and said "You did say everything. Have a nice day!" And left.
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    I think I might go back through after lunch.... Clarification: this is a security checkpoint for employees of this transportation facility. It's a
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    private security company and not any government transportation security... though most of them act like they work for the government.
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    tteokbokki4life I would dump a large box of paperclips in the bottome of the bag, before you head inside. Carelessly remove most of them, ask to see the screen while it's run
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    through the machine, knowing that there are some still floating around in the bag, and then apon seeing them on the screen, take the bag back, remove the rest, and run it back through. Now you get to
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    stand there and dump all the loose paperclips back into your bag while they watch and realize that this will happen over and over again until they stop acting like they work at Area 51.
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    Saltygcd You may need to go to the coffee shop at about 10:00 too...
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    JOHID th I feel ya. I have TSA precheck and like 90% of the time? Zero problems. Just shove it all in my electronics bag, go through and they say have a nice day. 10% of the time? They don't do precheck at all and then it's a nightmare. Company pays for Precheck so precheck it is.
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    FigNuuuuts Shout out to the other people in line following proper protocol making that woman actually do her job too.
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    lalauna Did you put each separate item in its own bin? Snicker.

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