TFlyguy,
As a regular visitor to MCO with BA and indeed most of the US airport, crew seem to be considered more of a threat than the passengers. I know of one security officer in Orlando who regularly says hello but the rest seem to hold us with such contempt.
In TPA a few weeks ago I was very rudely accused of hiding something up my sleeve when passing through the detector just because I had my arms folded, its very hard for us to maintain a professional image in front of passengers when these power trippy idiots with the education of a muppet (actually, the muppets are probably better educated) take out there agression of their jobs on crew because they know if they do it to a passenger they will probably wind up in court!!!
1-2-3 BREATH!!!!
Must admit though, I have just arrived home from PHL and it must be said, what a friendly bunch of airport staff, right down to the cleaners and the immigration folk, a very pleasurable airport to work out of!