Question of the Day: Was Jet Blue flight attendant right, wrong, or some of both?
First, here is the story, via What The…?
The flight attendant career of Steven Slater came to a spectacular close Sunday when he lost patience with certain members of his clientele.
After requesting an anxious passenger to remain in his seat and refrain from pulling out his overhead luggage, the passenger told him what for and then struck Mr. Slater in the head with his bag, accidentally like, as it came down from above them before the plane was properly parked. Funny, but that is exactly why they say not to do that. Returning to his crew station, Mr. Slater took advantage of his access to the plane’s PA system to bid his final flight farewell.
“Authorities said Slater dropped several f-bombs on a JetBlue flight’s loud speaker Monday night, grabbed two beers, deployed the plane’s emergency slide at Kennedy Airport, and then took off.”
I have to say some of both, after all, he was right to curse the dickhead out for, well, being an impatient dickhead, but subjecting the other passengers to his foul language? Not so much!
What do y’all say?
Posted on August 11, 2010, in Comic Relief, Culture and tagged Jet Blue flight attendant, Steven Slater. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Gatordoug
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Dave C
You take a job and you agree to govern yourself by behaving in a certain way, per your company’s standards. A steward may raise his voice if the passenger is being obnoxious and/or raising his voice, but you do not throw a hissy fit and act like a spoiled little kid. The stweard should have contacted the Captain and had the person arrested or detained. Instead, he endangered others.
Fire and prosecute the steward and ban the passenger from Jet Blue.
Great point indeed!