http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/airlines-protest-fingerprint-plan/ The last honest travel site Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/airlines-protest-fingerprint-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-1113 Catherine51 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:11:28 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/today/airlines-protest-fingerprint-plan/#comment-1113 Okay ... for $8.75 an hour, we check in passengers, translate, reissue tickets, take baggage, lift baggage, load it on planes, make seating arrangements, deal with frequent flyer upgrades, handle standbys, take care of misconnecting passengers, get spat on (yes, for real), stand for 8-12 hours a day. And SMILE. Don't forget to SMILE! And on top of that we have to take fingerprints too? Give me a friggin break. Make no bones about it, I love my job despite the low pay and difficult working conditions. But if the Feds want fingerprints taken, let them come stand behind the counter with us and do it their OWN selves! Okay … for $8.75 an hour, we check in passengers, translate, reissue tickets, take baggage, lift baggage, load it on planes, make seating arrangements, deal with frequent flyer upgrades, handle standbys, take care of misconnecting passengers, get spat on (yes, for real), stand for 8-12 hours a day. And SMILE. Don’t forget to SMILE! And on top of that we have to take fingerprints too? Give me a friggin break. Make no bones about it, I love my job despite the low pay and difficult working conditions. But if the Feds want fingerprints taken, let them come stand behind the counter with us and do it their OWN selves!

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