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JetBlue flight attendant goes berserk

Mr. Laser Beam said:
Bit disturbing, all the Facebook friends this jerk has. :wtf:

I guess there are lots of people who think it is okay to just go apeshit on customers and steal beer and all that crap.

I mean, come on. We all have to deal with bad customers. It is because WE HAVE TO. It's our JOBS. We don't have the luxury of a temper tantrum. And no matter how much of a jackass the customer might be, it doesn't give us the right to unload on them. What if Slater had hit the passenger? Should he have been allowed to do that too? :rolleyes:
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Oh be quiet.

It's not our job to take shit from customers. No one should have to put up with that kind of crap. No, throwing a temper-tantrum isn't the best, or most adult, way to handle things but at the same time all of us who work in this industry have those fantasies where we imagine unloading on the asshole customer who takes the whole "customer is always right" thing way more seriously than the guy who first said even intended.

This guy did something we all want to do, tell off shitty customers in a blaze of glory and piss off the job. Being a customer doesn't give you the right to be an asshole.

I had a customer nearly hit me with his cane because my warehouse was out of a product he wanted. But I guess he's the customer, he's always right and should've just sucked it up and taken it. Whatever. Just because I'm at work doesn't mean I have to take shit like that and don't have the right to be made and upset by it. I am, afterall, a human being.

And, since you bring up, this guy was the one injured in this altercation. Injured by the customer, infact.

But, I guess he's being paid to take that kind of shit and should've just sucked it up, right?

:rolleyes:
 
Interesting that there's such a fine line between being a hero and being a villain.

My own take is thank God he had his tantrum on the ground. I'd hate to have a flight attendant go berserk at 35,000 feet.
 
^^ If he had jumped out at 35,000 feet, he would have made a much bigger impression. :D
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Bit disturbing, all the Facebook friends this jerk has. :wtf:
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Because he's a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus.

I guess there are lots of people who think it is okay to just go apeshit on customers and steal beer and all that crap.
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Okay? No. Understandable given the circumstances and awesome? Yes.

I mean, come on. We all have to deal with bad customers. It is because WE HAVE TO. It's our JOBS. We don't have the luxury of a temper tantrum. And no matter how much of a jackass the customer might be, it doesn't give us the right to unload on them.
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You have both the luxury and the right to go off on a customer if you are prepared to deal with the consequences. And from all I've seen, this guy was. Obviously those rights don't extend to doing something illegal (even minor league illegal like this) like this guy did, but as far as the being rude when someone treats you like shit part? If you're willing to accept being fired or reprimanded, I say go for it.

What if Slater had hit the passenger? Should he have been allowed to do that too? :rolleyes:
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Right, because finding humor in a flight attendant cussing at a rude passenger and then minorly inconveniencing some people while he hops down the emergency slide equals approving of assault and battery.
 
Well, guess this guy can kiss any further employment in the airline industry goodbye.

Hope he has another career to fall back on...cus he can stick a fork in this one.
 
sidious618 said:
Mr. Laser Beam said:
This guy is just a narcissistic idiot who wants attention. :rolleyes:
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Why is it that whenever something exciting and out of the ordinary happens you complain? Do you hate fun or something?
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No. I'm just calling this as I see it. I don't see why this guy's supposed to be such a celebrity. He just did this to get attention. And there's witness reports coming in that he was a jackass to everyone on the plane, in fact.

Part of working in any kind of customer service job is this: We do not have the luxury of ego. If a customer gets you so worked up that you have to unload, then go the fuck home and do it in private. Quit if you must (and in this kind of economy, I gotta say that quitting your job is a dumbass move, unless you've already got a new one lined up), but let that be the end of it. This guy wanted to be famous, wanted to be seen, wanted to ham it up to get noticed. He's not even as funny as Johnny from Airplane!.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
This guy wanted to be famous, wanted to be seen, wanted to ham it up to get noticed.
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Yes, he planted that rude passenger and made the luggage fall on his head so he could attract the attention of the media who wasn't there to film it. Everything I've seen points to it being a spontaneous reaction out of frustration, not a calculated incident designed to get publicity.

He's taking advantage of the press now, to be sure, and I don't see anything wrong with that considering he'll need a new job (since he already lost his old one on 'Kids in the Hall' and now this ;)). He should bank on his popularity while he can.

I'd be heading down to that beer company to pitch appearing in an ad for their beer, myself.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
No. I'm just calling this as I see it. I don't see why this guy's supposed to be such a celebrity. He just did this to get attention. And there's witness reports coming in that he was a jackass to everyone on the plane, in fact.
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The only thing I've seen in that regard are passengers who said he was rude after he got hit on the head with the bag.

Part of working in any kind of customer service job is this: We do not have the luxury of ego. If a customer gets you so worked up that you have to unload, then go the fuck home and do it in private. Quit if you must (and in this kind of economy, I gotta say that quitting your job is a dumbass move, unless you've already got a new one lined up), but let that be the end of it.
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Some people have their thresholds, apparently this guy's was met and surpassed. We all have bad days and we all have lapses of judgement and rationality.

This guy wanted to be famous, wanted to be seen, wanted to ham it up to get noticed.
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The possiblity of him having enough forethought to say, "This customer has pissed me off. I'm going to make a big show of my quitting, have it become a media and internet sensation and make me famous over-night as a result. Where's the emergency slide and the booze?!" is so absiurdly remote that it's almost stupid to think he planned any of this. He was pushed to his limit and snapped. Simple as that.


He's not even as funny as Johnny from Airplane!.
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Was anyone drawing such a comparison?

Oh, I see! Because they were both gay, right?!

:rolleyes:
 
sidious618 said:
Locutus of Bored said:
I'd be heading down to that beer company to pitch appearing in an ad for their beer, myself.
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That's brilliant. He needs to do that ASAP.
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If it's Foster's, Dos Equis, or Bud Light the commercials will write themselves.

I hope it's Foster's just so the commercial can say:

"Breaktime." (show him cussing, jumping off the plane, and going home to have sex)

"Beeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr."

"Foster's, Australian for beer."
 
there are now reports that he was acting nuts all through the flight and perhaps already had the scar.
add in he now wants his job back.
this story has just started.
and while at first the thing sounds so great and tempting in the end do you want someone that easily pushed in a minor crisis as your atendant on a plane?
 
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