TSA (Transportation Security Administration) reviews

First and foremost you are dealing with the public and they think you are personally out to get them. Second staffing shortages are a daily occurrence and if they don't have volunteers to work OT you maybe be forced into mandatory OT. If a training class or meeting falls on your day off you will be forced into mandatory OT. Fourth you work every holiday unless you are lucky enough that it fell on your day off. Fifth do not expect to get weekends off! Starting out you have the middle of the week off. Sixth the majority of the shift hours suck; 4 am to 1230 pm, 1030 am to 7 pm(no chance starting out you will get this shift), 12 pm to 830pm, 3 pm to 12am. There are also split shifts 5 to 10 am (break for 2 hours) then 12 to 3 pm. Finally raises are very small if they happen at all, and if Congress can't decide on a budget you do not get paid but you still have to work or you will lose your job.

You can be written up or fired for using your sick days. In some areas, it is impossible to get the time off you want. Also, you will work weekends until you get enough seniority, which can be a decade. I have had to pat down (physically search by touching all over) babies, young children, people in pain from my touch, elderly people, people that can't understand what is happening to them. The good people, the one ones with options leave. The leftovers are the ones who get promoted. So you have a guy that barely graduated high school telling you why, with all seriousness, grandma can't take her bottle of water with her. I was told that I wasn't promoted because I wasn't the "right" race.