TSA employees have a private Facebook group where they vent about passengers using crude, homophobic and racist language.
NBC Washington revealed the existence of the Facebook page called TSA Breakroom where 18,000 TSA employees are members.
‘F***ing idiots of the world making my job harder,’ one TSA employee wrote on the now-deleted page. ‘I hope your plane blows up.’
Employees from airports across the U.S. use the page to complain about management, share stories about their day, and post memes and photos making fun of passengers.
‘How the f**k do these passengers wake up and get themselves dressed in the morning and make it to the airport without getting themselves killed?’ another post seen by NBC Washington read. ‘Cause these people are pretty f***ing stupid.’
A private Facebook group called TSA Breakroom has been uncovered
The page has 18,000 members who are TSA employees from across airports in the United States where they vent about their job
Many of the complaints are riddled with crude, racist, homophobic and transphobic remarks about passengers
This post from the now-deleted private group complained about TSA management requireing employees to respect passengers’ gender identity
One angry employee posted a lengthy post harping on about integrity and complaining that TSA management requires employees to respect passengers’ gender identity.
‘So given what we know about the definition of integrity, I would like to posit that the TSA/DHS is not truly worthy of the phrase integrity,’ one TSA employee wrote. ‘Why? By forcing its employees to go along with this ”gender identity” nonsense.’
The employee continued: ‘Lying to yourself is one thing Lying to others is something else, but forcing others to lie, in order to perform their jobs, or to keep their jobs, is an altogether other evil.’
Another employee told a story of how she was checking bags and noticed a passenger left a note asking TSA agents not to touch anything and instead contact her.
The employee said they asked the boss who said ‘eff that note, touch everything’.
‘Clearly I’m not the insubordinate type, so what do I do? I TOUCH EVERYTHING in said bag,’ the employee wrote. ‘To add an extra sprinkle of petty, bc clearly the cow took me there…I took half a stack of inspection notices and threw it in bag and went on about my petty day.’
Other employees post memes, while one posted a photo o a little girl in a stroller while making fun of her size.
A spokesperson for the TSA confirmed the page’s existence but said the page ‘is not affiliated with TSA,’ and that the agency ‘does not monitor the site’
One employee told a story of how she was checking bags and noticed a passenger left a note asking TSA agents not to touch anything and instead contact her
Stories of the employees’ days are posted as well as memes and photos making fun of travelers
Other employees post memes, while one posted a photo o a little girl in a stroller while making fun of her size
While NBC Washington kept the identities of the employees anonymous, some revealed which airports they worked at, which span the U.S.
Employees revealed they worked at Salt Lake City Airport, Dulles International Airport in Virginia and another at an airport in Baltimore, Maryland.
One TSA employee made racist comments about a group of Chinese passengers, writing, ‘I should play the lotto!
And while the posts can only be seen by members of the group, multiple employees shared some of the most disturbing posts with NBC Washington.
Former TSA employee Monica Stoddard, who worked for the agency for 11 years in Washington DC, told the outlet that she is a member of the group but does not post on it.
‘The morale wasn’t a good one,’ she said. ‘(Workers) don’t have an outlet to say what’s going on and speak their minds.’
She added that the page is part of a larger worker moral problem with TSA.
One former employee said the page is part of a larger worker morale problem with TSA
A spokesperson for the TSA confirmed to Insider the page’s existence but said the page ‘is not affiliated with TSA,’ and that the agency ‘does not monitor the site.’
‘The Code of Conduct for TSA employees provides that an employee’s off-duty internet use must not adversely reflect on TSA or negatively impact its mission, cause embarrassment to the agency, or cause the public and/or TSA to question the employee’s reliability, judgment, or trustworthiness,’ the TSA said.
This comes months after a private border patrol Facebook group was discovered where officers posted offensive jokes and memes about migrants and Democratic politicians.