In today’s “how immature and unprofessional can you be” news, an airport security worker lost her job after video showing her handing random passengers insulting notes was made public.
The incident actually occurred at the beginning of June, passenger Neal Strassner says on YouTube. He was shocked and offended by it, and he made sure to report the woman to her supervisors – and then he proceeded to obtain irrefutable evidence of what she’d done.
The incident happened at the Greater Rochester International Airport in New York, and surveillance video of it was released after Strassner filed a public records request. He posted it to YouTube to make sure everyone knew the kind of insulting experience they might have at the hands of a similarly ill-behaved security worker.
Strassner himself notes that the woman didn’t work for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) but for a security contractor for the airport. The TSA says they wouldn’t allow this type of stuff to happen because they have “zero tolerance for this type of behavior.”
“As I was recently traveling through Rochester NY airport, a security guard passed me a random insulting note. This video was obtained by a freedom of information request I did. It shows the woman in the lower left passing notes and creating more from pieces of the glove box at the end of the video,” Strassner says in the caption of the video.
“Around 40 seconds in the video she appears to reach off screen and get a note from somewhere who knows if she created this one or someone else off screen. After that she hands me the note, I walk off toward my gate not really caring but she then calls to me as I'm leaving and yells ‘You gonna open the note?’ So I do and she bursts out laughing as you can see in the video. That's when I was opening and looking at the note. At the end of the video there is a picture of the note she gave me. It said ‘YOU UGLY!!!.’ On the return trip back to Rochester, NY, her supervisors were notified,” the caption adds.
The woman was let go from her job; however, it didn’t happen right after Strassner’s formal complaint, but upon the release of the video.
Elena has been writing for a living since 2006 and, as a journalist, she has put her double major in English and Spanish to good use. She covers automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, and she always knows the shows worth watching on Netflix and friends. Full profile
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