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Jet Blue attendant overheats

Maybe the NYC heat got to him or flying has just become way stressful nowadays but in a bizarre incident a Jet Blue flight attendant cursed out a passenger who got up to retrieve his hand luggage before the all clear sign from the crew.
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/queens/source-flight-attendant-curses-passengers-bolts-from-jet-20100809

I actually sympathize with the flight attendant Steven Slater as I have been on innumerable flights when this happens and it really gets my goat ..yes we all want to deplane and get off but can you wait and where are you going to go too the immigration line? suppose there is already a looong line there and even if you clear it what guarantee do you have that your luggage will get off the carousel equally fast ??
I did write a blog post about this for one the hotel blogs that I used to write for as the pushing and shoving to get off a plane makes me mad.(especially on Indian carriers)
anyway I guess Slater was out of line for he is in a service industry where we are taught that the customer is always right!
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
Ugh...this was on every news show last night! It's pretty funny, I have to say. I mean, why did the guy run away?

I can understand his being annoyed - I hate getting off planes myself, and usually just sit and read for a while until most people have gone. After I get my stuff from the overhead, that is (and after the plane has come to a halt of course).

I've never been to India, but found Italians to be mad and unable to form proper queues, so I can only imagine.

But that guy Slater was way out of line when he swung himself out the emergency slide and ran through a restricted area to get to his car. Craziness!
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Uraniumfish
Uraniumfish 2yrs+
When you consider the working conditions? Cramped quarters, whiny, demanding people, barely room to breathe, certainly no space to yourself for even 5 minutes, and those flights can be looooong. I've sometimes watched the flight attendants in coach, wearing their cheap polyester attendant outfits, and forced to show you the friggin emergency exits in the most humiliating ritual imaginable, and thought: Yeah, it's only a matter of time before somebody snaps in a job like this.

So, no, I'm not all that surprised, whatever the guy's reasons were.
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
Just read an interesting post about the Slater issue from the Brooklyn Nomad so agree with him..

http://www.thebrooklynnomad.com/in-defense-of-steven-slater-and-other-pissed-off-workers/
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
@Uraniumfish But that guy had been a flight attendant for at least a decade - some long period of time. I can't pity the guy's working conditions - he picked 'em. There must be something he liked about it to keep doing it for so long. And if not, that's his problem.

@uptowngirl HA: "Who hasn’t wanted to tell someone at their job to f*** off, grab a beer and then proceed to exit via a slide?"
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Uraniumfish
Uraniumfish 2yrs+
I think that guy has just coined a fantastic new term: going "Slater" on someone.
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@Everyone here's the whole Slater tale..seems it was a female passenger who ignited the whole incident
http://dnainfo.com/20100812/manhattan/steven-slaters-jetblue-meltdown-came-after-slow-burn-on-flight
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BroadwayBK
BroadwayBK 2yrs+
After all that he wanted his job back! Man, if committing three felonies while at work isn't a cry of "I hate my job!" I don't know what is.
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Uraniumfish
Uraniumfish 2yrs+
Guys, this reads like an elementary spat among fifth graders: and the teacher has to step in a slap all kinds of charges and fines on them both.

@BroadwayBK Yeah, and he clearly hates his job and should stay far away from any gig that is similar.
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NeverSleeps
NeverSleeps 2yrs+
What I don't understand is why so many people are showing their support for this guy. On the news they're calling him a celebrity and making much ado about his fifteen minutes of fame - but I just have no respect for his behavior. I mean, yes - sharing overhead bins and waiting to get off a plane are not fun things to do, but these are things that people have to put up with when they fly. There's no getting around them. If these things are so unbearable to you, then maybe you shouldn't work on an airplane. And yes, it sounds like that woman passenger was awful to him, but he acted just as badly as she did.
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DBlack
DBlack 2yrs+
I just had to laugh at the amount of attention this guy is getting. It's such a non-story.
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ajadedidealist
ajadedidealist 2yrs+
This guy is a legend! An absolute legend! This guy's problem wasn't the conditions of flying, it was the passenger who hit him in the head with luggage, refused to apologize, and called him a "mofo." That would have driven me pretty crazy too!
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JenMac
JenMac 2yrs+
@neversleeps: I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one. This guy said what everyone has wanted to say to their job at some point in time. If I were gonna go out as a flight attendant, I can't think of a better way than grabbing a beer and hopping out the emergency slide. It's so awesome to me.
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DBlack
DBlack 2yrs+
@JenMac Agreed, but then it's a little pathetic to try to get your old job back. If you're going to go out with that much of a bang, you have to keep from whimpering after or it ruins the whole thing.
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@DBlack so true!!
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@Everyone take a look at this Lufthansa stewardess who joined in a mid-air pillow fight with her passengers...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7942462/Flight-attendant-joins-in-mid-air-pillow-fight.html
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JenMac
JenMac 2yrs+
That is awesome, uptowngirl!
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NeverSleeps
NeverSleeps 2yrs+
@JenMac Yeah, you're not exactly going out with a bang if you beg for your job back afterward. Tell 'em off or don't.
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Uraniumfish
Uraniumfish 2yrs+
@uptowngirl That's too cute. Everyone should be that good humored on a flight.
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@uraniumfish aha that would be the day, I am hopping on a flight to India on Sunday lets see how much fun that turns out to be.
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NeverSleeps
NeverSleeps 2yrs+
@uptowngirl Good luck and may all of the flight attendants on your plane still have their jobs when you land!
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Uraniumfish
Uraniumfish 2yrs+
Maybe the flight attendants should just have a beer BEFORE they get on the plane, and try to relax a little.
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ajadedidealist
ajadedidealist 2yrs+
How awesome! @the pillow fight story. I would love that to happen in my flight!
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uptowngirl
uptowngirl 2yrs+
@Everyone I had an extremely pleasant flight and was served by a young, good looking flight attendant who was extremely helpful too. I flew on Jet Airways which is a private airline that operates within India and internationally too.
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