Ahhh the joys of the local airport securicor. Where i work they make up the rules as you go along. As i am a SLF agent sometimes i have to take the crew out to aircraft (after they have been stuffing their faces in the cafe
) somedays you are allowed to use a particular door to go out of (the quick way) and sometimes if they are bored they stop you using this door and make you walk around upstairs and through the way that the PAX would go to get to the planes. If there is a big queue there your in for a long wait!!
Sometimes they converskate my keys off me and tell me to collect them when i come back into my work office (there is no pen-knifes on it or anything like that) The normal airport security are ok its just the monkeys that sit by the x-ray macheine etc. By reading some of the comments here it sounds like other people suffer the same problems