Don't hire anyone who admires Steven Slater
The soon-to-be-ex-JetBlue-Employee ain't no freaking hero.
He's just some guy who quit his job in spectacular fashion. In a way many of us wish we had the guts to do but we don't, because we know better.
We might fantasize about doing it but we aren't going there because...
How best to put this?
WE ARE GROWNUPS.
I would like to think anyone reading this would agree with the following.
1) We're not going to inconvenience a plane full of people just because one of them pissed us off, regardless of how it was done (this includes any comments made about our lineage, our weight, our race, or our religion). We're going to do our job and turn him into the FAA afterward for the fine he deserves, but we will not snap in that situation. We can't. We're responsible for our actions.
2) We're still not going to curse someone out over a public intercom broadcast, because we'd be mortified afterward. Hell, if you try that on the internet, we call you a troll and the trolls only think they can do it because they are anonymous. No wonder the guy felt he had to make an exit...
3) Someone had to be the grownup. He was being paid to be the grownup. And he failed. No excuses. Hell, there isn't even a mitigating factor (there rarely are for that matter). He blew it.
We're responsible citizens. If everyone acted like bozo the flight attendant, we wouldn't have a civilized society. I don't tend to suffer people like that in my personal life. I don't like anyone who is even *capable* of feeling this sense of entitlement.
They could be perfectly fine until subjected to stress. Yes, everyone has a point they snap at but everyone snaps differently. People who snap in ways like this should be avoided lest you find yourself in blast radius when it happens.
Being pushed to the point of snapping isn't an excuse for anything other than why you need to go to anger management class.
This personality trait speaks to a selfishness that I don't like at all. The hint of this sort of thing being present in someone's personality makes me want to run clear in the opposite direction.
Really, he shouldn't simply be saying he wants to fly still. He should be apologizing all throughout the press conferences when he says that. Some show of regret maybe. There's nothing heroic at all about what he did. He gave up the high road and is being celebrated for it. The guy really needs to see "Jaynestown", but somehow I doubt he will understand why even afterward.
Amusing factoid: JetBlue has claimed that the guy's actions never resulted in any danger to any passenger, which is a kind of interesting position to be taking now that he has been charged by the police with RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT.
They might want to pay for the guy to have a really good defense lawyer because criminal convictions take a higher standard of proof than civil lawsuits do. If Slater is found guilty, JetBlue will be left defenseless to any civil suit against them over this.
He's just some guy who quit his job in spectacular fashion. In a way many of us wish we had the guts to do but we don't, because we know better.
We might fantasize about doing it but we aren't going there because...
How best to put this?
WE ARE GROWNUPS.
I would like to think anyone reading this would agree with the following.
1) We're not going to inconvenience a plane full of people just because one of them pissed us off, regardless of how it was done (this includes any comments made about our lineage, our weight, our race, or our religion). We're going to do our job and turn him into the FAA afterward for the fine he deserves, but we will not snap in that situation. We can't. We're responsible for our actions.
2) We're still not going to curse someone out over a public intercom broadcast, because we'd be mortified afterward. Hell, if you try that on the internet, we call you a troll and the trolls only think they can do it because they are anonymous. No wonder the guy felt he had to make an exit...
3) Someone had to be the grownup. He was being paid to be the grownup. And he failed. No excuses. Hell, there isn't even a mitigating factor (there rarely are for that matter). He blew it.
We're responsible citizens. If everyone acted like bozo the flight attendant, we wouldn't have a civilized society. I don't tend to suffer people like that in my personal life. I don't like anyone who is even *capable* of feeling this sense of entitlement.
They could be perfectly fine until subjected to stress. Yes, everyone has a point they snap at but everyone snaps differently. People who snap in ways like this should be avoided lest you find yourself in blast radius when it happens.
Being pushed to the point of snapping isn't an excuse for anything other than why you need to go to anger management class.
This personality trait speaks to a selfishness that I don't like at all. The hint of this sort of thing being present in someone's personality makes me want to run clear in the opposite direction.
Really, he shouldn't simply be saying he wants to fly still. He should be apologizing all throughout the press conferences when he says that. Some show of regret maybe. There's nothing heroic at all about what he did. He gave up the high road and is being celebrated for it. The guy really needs to see "Jaynestown", but somehow I doubt he will understand why even afterward.
Amusing factoid: JetBlue has claimed that the guy's actions never resulted in any danger to any passenger, which is a kind of interesting position to be taking now that he has been charged by the police with RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT.
They might want to pay for the guy to have a really good defense lawyer because criminal convictions take a higher standard of proof than civil lawsuits do. If Slater is found guilty, JetBlue will be left defenseless to any civil suit against them over this.