Used to work in the financial industry and every single time we had to deal with the SEC, whether regular audits or something else, it was a complete fucking shakedown. Could be clean as a whistle and they would find something, oftentimes manufactured or completely made up. And they were never shy about reminding you how they could put you out of business even though most of the auditors I dealt with were complete neophytes and maybe a year or two out of college, but on a rampage. Reminded me of a former IRS worker who told me one time how the more they collected, the more they made. Even if it wasn't owed. Fear was their biggest asset.
Customs.....don't get me started.
Honeymoon, we get searched (which they said is random, but would be quick) in Miami. But we had to wait so long for them to begin their quick search that we missed our connecting flight to Dallas, had to stay an extra night, which we had to pay for, and both missed getting back to work.
Last time the wife and I left the country, we were coming back through customs at DFW. Get to the line and there's at least 1K people in front of us and those on our flight, so probably 4-5 planeloads of people in line with the line snaked around and out the door.....with ZERO agents at their stations to process people. Asked a couple of people and they said it had been like that for at least an hour. It was literally standing still with not a thing happening. Finally after we'd been in line for a half hour or so, every single customs agent (8-10) came out to their post at the same time and began processing people through. Turns out they'd all been on their lunch break at the same time and let the line get so long that it took 5 hours for us to get processed. Had someone picking us up at 1:30 and finally texted them to forget it and we Uber'd home at after 6:00.
Always amazes me when people think the government and/or federal bureaucracy is the answer to anything. Corrupt, profitless, and inefficient.
I'd forgotten about the DFW customs and immigration bullshit.
I swore those asshats off long ago.