a bad day... (flight attendant tale)

[TheSHAD0W]

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local...100286494.html

After getting hit by a bag being pulled out of an overhead compartment by a woman who then cursed at him, this steward got on the PA, cursed out the whole plane, pulled an emergency chute release, slid down and ran off.

[emax4]

Ballsy Flight Attendant

I check out consumerist.com daily but found this little story after work. Apparently there was an altercation on a flight from Pittsburgh to NY. During the landing procedure, a guest tried to retrieve his belongings from the overhead compartment, but there was no announcement that it was okay for any guest to do so while in descent. One flight attendant tried to stop the guest and explained the procedures, the guest didn't listen, managed to open the compartment and the guest's luggage hit the flight attendant on the head.

The flight attendant demanded an apology, and naturally the SC would not give him one and called the attendant a M*****F*****. Having had enough the flight attendant got one the intercom and said "to the guy who called me a m*****f****, F*** YOU!... (blah blah). One source he just went off on the unruly guest while another report says that he went off on all the guests but mainly the one who wouldn't listen to him. Once the plane landed, the flight attendant took the emergency exit out, slid down the inflatable ramp, took his tie off and went home where he was later arrested.

A lot of the viewers gave the guy kudos, and I agree. It takes balls to stand up to someone like that, but it also shows how much stupid customers and their "entitlement" can run someone to the ground. This is why I won't work for a company that lets customers abuse the company's employees.

[Rine]

I read this on CNN. Best way to quit ever, I think.

And he grabbed beer before sliding down the chute. That really made me laugh. Seriously, I think this is the best "I quit!" stories I've ever read.

[PepperElf]

i kinda call "bs" on the charges of "reckless endangerment" and "trespassing"

cos he didn't endanger anyone by leaving. and he didn't trespass cos he had a legal right to be on the plane in the first place

i do hope he doesn't go to prison tho
cos sometimes you just go crazy dealing with SCs

[trailerparkmedic]

I was going to post this.

Coolest quitting scene EVER. I would be tempted to do the same if someone hit me in the head and then cussed me out instead of apologizing.

[draggar]

I was going to post this.

Coolest quitting scene EVER. I would be tempted to do the same if someone hit me in the head and then cussed me out instead of apologizing.

Same here, on both counts.

[Whiskey]

i kinda call "bs" on the charges of "reckless endangerment" and "trespassing"

I can, kind of a little bit, see the reckless endangerment. People in herds are reactive. If they see someone pulling the emergency exit they could panic, thinking somethings wrong with the plane, and someone could get hurt.


Best quit ever.

[ditchdj]

That passenger's lucky he hasn't been arrested by the Feds himself.

Disobeying a plan steward's instructions alone is a Federal offense. It's part of the "Patriot Act".

[cinema guy]

SC causes flight attendant to make emergeny exit

Flight attendant rows with customer, grabs beer and leaves

[lordlundar]

I know people are cheering him on, I'm not one of them. There are people outside the plane who are doing their work in close proximity, and those slides are very heavy and inflate very rapidly. Should someone be hit by one of those it could seriously injure or kill them This is logic that clearly didn't run through his mind or he just plain didn't give a damn. Be mad, make a grand exit, I don't give a damn, but don't risk the lives of people who had no involvement in the situation. Regardless of his feelings, he shouldn't have done it.

[Magpie]

Had he not been staff, his behaviour would have been very SC. He demanded an apology, swore at the other guy in public, and then cost the company a lot of money and reputation by doing something dangerous. It actually sounds like the stress in his personal life might have flicked a switch somewhere, because that's rather extreme behaviour, to put it mildly.

[MaggieTheCat]

Why was the flight attendant arrested?

Edit: Nevermind, posted before the two threads were merged and I saw the link.

[Rapscallion]

Worth merging separate threads on the same topic.

Rapscallion

[mikoyan29]

Had he not been staff, his behaviour would have been very SC. He demanded an apology, swore at the other guy in public, and then cost the company a lot of money and reputation by doing something dangerous. It actually sounds like the stress in his personal life might have flicked a switch somewhere, because that's rather extreme behaviour, to put it mildly.

someone up there did mention that the guy who the vulgarity was directed at refused to comply with the instructions of the flight crew. That seems to be getting lost in any of the news reports I've read. They make it sound like innocent passenger was merely getting his bag out of the overhead and it just sort of hit the flight attendent. They kind of glossed over the fact that plane was still taxiing. Anytime I've ever been on a plane they remind people to stay in their seats until the plane comes to a complete stop and seat belt signs come on. As it is, the passenger is probably going to get a free flight or two for his "inconvenience". However, I'm not going to give the flight attendent hero status because he could have dealt with it in a more professional manner.

[MoonCat]

The minute I heard this story on the news (without most of the detail) I just knew some idiot had opened an overhead compartment before the plane stopped moving.

If I had been hit on the head by that guy's luggage I would have lost it, too. Consider what would have happened if the bag had hit one of the other passengers, possibly a little kid. They should have arrested the passenger for disobeying safety instructions.

Yeah, maybe the attendant could have handled it differently, but I'm guessing it was just the last straw and he was past caring. That doesn't happen for one incident, it usually takes a while to build up. I bet the passenger in question was a pain in the butt for the whole flight, from ticketing to boarding right up to getting out of his seat when he wasn't supposed to.