Flight Attendant’s Dramatic Resignation Lifts Him to Hero Status
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Steven Slater is quickly becoming America's newest folk hero after the former Jet Blue flight attendant had a legendary on-the-tarmac tantrum at JFK airport yesterday and walked out on the job. The 38-year-old Queens resident snapped after an argument with a rule-breaking passenger who had hit him in the head with her luggage.
Slater got on the intercom and announced "to the passenger who called me a (expletive): (expletive) you. I've been in this business 28 years and I've had it." He then grabbed a beer and his luggage, deployed the emergency slide, and left.
Although Slater has been charged with reckless endangerment and criminal mischief, for many, he has become a folk hero by quitting his job in a spectacular fashion that most of us have only dreamed about.
So we want to know, do you have any spectacular job resignation stories of your own?
Tune in tonight for an update on the fate of Slater and a look at some of the other dramatic sign-offs from film and real life.
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No. I have always needed a job so bad to make ends meet that I take whatever crap I must to stay employed, including having to fly. But I sympathize with Slater.
I have to fly weekly, and the people on planes and in airports are absolute rude slob animals. They have no manners or courtesy of any kind. They have been completely raised wrong. All they think about is themselves.
Posted by: Proud Native American and Angry Independent Voter | August 11, 2010, 12:07 am 12:07 am
Steven Slater is no hero.
In the June Consumer reports you will find an article on the top travel gripes. Airlines, hotels and rent a cars. Airlines: Luggage fee, added fees, and rude unhelpful staff, the top three of many.
Rude unhelpful staff seems to be the norm these days. Capitalism and power and money rule. Flight attendants have power and constantly abuse it. Yes I do expect courteous helpful service, I repeat service, for which I pay dearly for.
What about passenger rights! Long lines and stranded on the runway for hours. Give me a break, flight attendants, are there to make your flight convenient and comfortable, that is what we expect and pay for. Fares and costs go up, rudeness prevails. Believe me, times have changed.
Posted by: allen barre | August 11, 2010, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm
slater is no hero. Most of those who fly are. They have to take the surly rude even agressive behaviour from flight attendants. As a disabled individial A flight attendent refused to put a very small computer case above for me. I saw a woman an elderly woman and man fall as they tried to hold each other up when the driver of the shuttle refused to get them a wheel chair as they requested. Flight attendants are using flight safety as an excuse to dispense with civility and bully passengers. I have seen and experienced it. You are afraid to call them on rude behaviour because they might throw you off the plane and leave you stranded. So Mr slater I am pretty put out with many of you. I thank those who are becoming fewer and fewer for their courtesy but they are becoming rare. Dr Della Condon
Posted by: Della Condon | August 12, 2010, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm
I support his actions. We have been so accustom to rude overbearing individuals who think they have the right to not use common decency because the paid some money. I think they are the ones that need to show that they must use all the moral rules that we place on us as individual or we sink to animal levels.
Posted by: al | August 13, 2010, 1:00 am 1:00 am