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Ever wonder what could drive a flight attendant to curse passengers out, pop open the emergency slide and go for a ride? Well, even if you hadn’t, the good people at Reader’s Digest asked a bunch of flight attendants what sort of behaviors really get under their skin.
As a companion to its piece on pilot confessions, the Digest has posted 13 Things Your Flight Attendant Won’t Tell You.
Among the irksome things passengers do:
* “No, it’s not OK to come back into the galley to stretch and bend over with your rear end in my face while I’m in my jump seat during my only break, trying to eat a meal.”
* “Just in case you hadn’t noticed, there are other people on the airplane besides you. So don’t clip your toenails, snore with wild abandon, or do any type of personal business under a blanket!”
* “Passengers are always coming up to me and tattling on each other. ‘Can you tell him to put his seat up?’ ‘She won’t share the armrest.’ What am I, a preschool teacher?”
* “We don’t have a boyfriend in every city. And our median age these days is 44.”
* “Yes, passengers are incredibly rude, but stealing a beer, cursing out passengers, and jumping out of a plane the way Steven Slater did is not the way to handle it. You disarm an unruly passenger by introducing yourself, asking his name, and saying something like ‘I’ve been incredibly nice to you for three hours. Why are you treating me like this?’ Generally that gets the other passengers on your side–and sometimes they’ll even applaud.”
13 Things Your Flight Attendant Won’t Tell You [RD.com]
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“Passengers are always coming up to me and tattling on each other. ‘Can you tell him to put his seat up?’ ‘She won’t share the armrest.’ What am I, a preschool teacher?”
Other passengers are obnoxious. This is heightened while you’re in the air, they just get worse. IT IS YOUR JOB to keep people from annoying the feck out of others.
I wonder when stewardess became a bad thing to call people just like secretary they are now admin assistants?
On the other hand I lived in West Palm Beach for about 10 years and never ever seen someone stuffing a mink coat on the overhead compartment, newsflash It’s Florida and its hot and humid. Do people have some sense of entiltement ? yeah some of the old people d believe they are bettern that the rest but hey what old guy is not a pain in the ass?
I don’t always understand these “I’m in X industry and I hate Y people” articles.
In situations like flying, dining at a restaurant, shopping at a clothing store, etc., I just treat people like people. I’m polite and usually they’re polite back.
Everyone likes a good vent, but perhaps telling friends or family is a better outlet, instead of broadcasting it on the internet for so many people to read and probably take out of context (leaving the person in X industry looking like a lazy, entitled jerk).
My favorite of these.
A good cue for the traveling public is a “mini-me” designation attached to the airline name: Lite, Express, Eagle, or cutesy moniker designed by marketers. Employees at these are the proverbial mine-sniffing dogs of the industry: grueling days, Greyhound bus passengers, little pay.
Passengers have demanded Aeroflot prices, don’t be surprised at Aeroflot service and safety.
I find it interesting how people get mad at people, and do not blame the company. Pay is terrible for the job, especially for a hazardous work environment. Airlines push people to the bring with fees, and pushing people to bring all their luggage in the cabin. They squeeze every last penny they can out of customers and employees, sacrificing as much quality of service as they can get away with.
I’m a bit disappointed in my fellow Consumerist readers… again.
These aren’t sissy rants by someone that hates their job.
If you think for a moment about what she’s saying, almost all of these annoying behaviors
don’t just make the attendants’ job harder, *they create safety and annoyance issues
for other passengers*
It’s one thing to disagree with waiter that complains about patrons rearranging chairs and tables, but obstructing aisles and overfilling overhead bins not only slows everyone down, but causes safety issues
Again, I think people have a “bubble” around them – they aren’t necessarily aware of how their habits affect others. I’m grateful for stuff like this – classy, civilized people don’t just expect the good service and pleasant experience they’re entitled to – they have at least some awareness of the other folks they’re sharing close personal space with, and take that into consideration, whether they’re employees or fellow passengers.
I definitely have it figured out that they don’t have a boyfriend in every city. Most of the ones I see these days look like they started out with Wilbur and Orville.
7. Don’t ask us if it’s okay to use the lavatories on the ground. The answer is always yes. Do you think what goes into the toilet just dumps out onto the tarmac?
No, we think there is probably some dumb rule against using them on the ground, so we ask first.
my old roomie used to fart in aisles as she would go up n back near rude ppl. the silent bomb she would say. She was the ‘bf in every city” type, we would have more stubby soda in our fridge than anyone could imagine.
disgusting stories