Video: Shuffle Fun Shuffle Shuffle Fun Shuffle Fun Fun Shuffle Fun Fun Shuffle Just Plane Fun!
Here's an internal pep video for Southwest Airlines from the 80's. It's got representatives from each part of the company rapping about their roles (do this do that we never get hairy we do it for you because we're your secretary), with an interstitial chorus singing "Shuffle fun shuffle shuffle fun shuffle fun fun shuffle fun fun shuffle just plane fun" on my elementary schools' auditorium stage while employees run around in plush airplane costumes. After about 9 minutes of that, it finally culminates in some sort of motivational orgy with singing and jiving and the CEO strutting around and the strobe lights flash and quick edits and a cascade of balloons drops from the ceilings and I can't take it anymore. I think if I step on a Southwest Airlines plane again I'll fall to the floor in like a PTSD-induced epileptic seizure... of excellent customer service! Video, inside, if you dare...
This video breaks destroys your willpower, which, I'm guessing, was its intent; disintegrate your your negative Nelly and replace it with an upbeat and slightly wacked attitude.
(Thanks to Jaspreet!)
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It was stuff like this video that had Southwest recognized as one of the best companies to work for in the country. It wasn't just for this video. The company used to play pranks on passengers, had flight attendants hiding in overheads and even had them do joke speeches to "make sure you were paying attention." The video even highlights some of the business model that leaves Southwest as one of the only profitable airlines today. Their centralized maintenance parts facility.
These videos are infamous. I've never seen one, but there are tons of them. Southwest is one of the biggest case studies MBAs read.
@chiieddy: Some crews still do the joke speeches -- they're quite entertaining. I wish I could have been around for the hiding-in-overhead-bin gag, though!
@ChemNerd:
That game (and its many sequels) was craptastic!! I still get occasional impulses to play it in hopes of reaching the upper echelons of dudeness.
Their CEO raps worse than I do when I'm trying to do it particularly poorly.
It's interesting trying to figure out who got stuck with lines that couldn't possibly scan properly, and who just has no rhythm whatsoever.
There are a few spots where the music just turns into a train wreck too.
Also, you can guess the rhyme about 80 percent of the time (if you can hear it).
@MightyDwarf56: 30 seconds. And those last 10 were spent holding back the vomit until I could control myself enough to stop the video.
This video breaks destroys your willpower, which, I'm guessing, was its intent; disintegrate your your negative Nelly and replace it with an upbeat and slightly wacked attitude.













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