How secure are you after clearing security? Who are shop employees?

Question

Do the people that work within the secure area of airports have special screening? Seems like good jobs for terrorists to apply for. Waitress, barber,computer sales, book sales, etc etc.
Do they have to go through screening every time they go to work? Very scary.

Answer 1

I work at the Airport in Arkansas and we HAVE to go thr security everytime we go to work. In fact, even if we've already been thru security once and we leave and come back we still have to go right back thru it. The only special priviledges we get is that we dont have to stand in the long lines (we get to cut in front of everyone!). They have different color badges in the airport (white, blue, green, and red). BAsically if you have a white badge you can't go too many places in the airport, but with the red ones you can go almost anywhere....which means you can take the side doors and other elevators that allow you to bypass security after you;ce went thru it once already. However, some people abuse this and they use those routes EVERYDAY not going thru security at all. It does seem pretty scary to me too!

Answer 2

In milwaukee no, Employees are given a background check from the FBI, drug test ect. We do not always have to go through security. We can get in the main terminal, but not every employee and jump on an aircraft, dont get that confused. If we dont go through security our badges are scanned and we must enter a pin number, for tracking that they could tell where we are. I wouldnt worry about it, Have you ever heard about it happening. The airports arent like what people think they are.