While I have to admit that some of them are jerks, it would be a rather stressful job, knowing that it is possible that any one of the jillion flyers that they have to screen every day could be a bad guy hoping to blow up the world, or a TSA employee testing how well you are doing your job. What amazes me the most is how hung up they get on underwire bras. A well endowed woman (my wife in this case) sets off the alarm thanks to the wire in her bra, they go nutso, making her stand on the little footprints, arms spread wide, while two or three of them try to see if it is really wire, or maybe a couple of guns, without actually grabbing a handful. Flying naked will come to pass, mark my words...